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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.
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.
Russian Empire Soviet Union: Sambo (martial art) [86] Konstantin Khrenov (1894–1984) Russian Empire Soviet Union: underwater welding [citation needed] A modern underwater welding: Nikolai Kibalchich (1853–1881) Russian Empire: pioneer of rocketry [87] A Soyuz-U, at Baikonur Site 1/5: Semyon Kirlian (1898–1978) Russian Empire Soviet Union
Despite many technological achievements in the 19th and 20th centuries, since the time of Brezhnev stagnation Russia has lagged significantly behind the West in a number of technologies, especially those concerning energy conservation and consumer goods production. The crisis of the 1990s led to the drastic reduction of state support for science.
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 ...
This category includes things invented in Russia (Russian Empire, Russian SFSR, Russian Federation), or by people from Russia outside Russia. This is a problematic category. As such, this list requires a degree of caution.
The Neo-Assyrian Empire succeeded the Old Assyrian Empire (c. 2025–1378 BCE), and the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–934 BCE) of the Late Bronze Age. During this period, Aramaic was also made an official language of the empire, alongside Akkadian . [ 6 ]
Russia and the Arabs: Behind the Scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the Present (Basic Books, 2009). Rezvani, Babak. "Russian foreign policy and geopolitics in the Post-Soviet space and the Middle East: Tajikistan, Georgia, Ukraine and Syria." Middle Eastern Studies 56.6 (2020): 878-899 online. Smolansky, O. M.