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The Soviet Union detonated a hydrogen bomb in 1953, a mere ten months after the United States. Space exploration was also highly developed: in October 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit; in April 1961 a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, became the first man in space. The Soviets maintained a ...
TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and SVT-40 self-loading rifle (main Soviet guns of World War II) A Soviet soldier with TT-33: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, (1857–1935) Russian Empire Soviet Union: spaceflight (theory principles that led to numerous inventions, derived the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation) Tsiolkovsky's drawings of astronaut in space ...
For the first time drag chutes were used in 1937 by the Soviet airplanes in the Arctic that provided support for the famous polar expeditions of the era. The drag chute allowed safe landings on small ice-floes. 1937 Drifting ice station. Soviet and Russian drifting ice stations are important contributors to exploration of the Arctic.
Pages in category "Science and technology in the Soviet Union" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Soviet inventions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 239 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Space historian Asif Siddiqi, whose book Challenge to Apollo: the Soviet Union and the space race, 1945–1974 was rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best works on space exploration, [64] takes a more balanced approach by acknowledging Nazi Germany rocket technology and involvement of German scientists and engineers was an essential ...
Soviet inventions (11 C, 239 P) Sports originating in Russia (12 P) T. Ternary computers (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Russian inventions" The following 200 pages ...
November 1975 – the State Committee on Inventions and Discovery rules that computer programs are ineligible for protection under the Soviet Law of Inventions. [ 100 ] 1982 – the Belle chess machine is impounded by the United States Customs Service before it can reach a Moscow chess exhibition because they thought it might be useful to the ...