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Rebar was known in construction well before the era of the modern reinforced concrete, since some 150 years before its invention rebar were used in the Leaning Tower of Nevyansk in Russia, which was built on the orders of the industrialist Akinfiy Demidov between 1725 and 1732. The purpose of such construction is one of the many mysteries of ...
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.
Country Analysis: Russia's Oil and Natural Gas. "Major Russian Companies: Some Details" (1995–1996), Joint Project by Expert Magazine and Menatep Bank, undated. "Russia's oil renaissance", BBC, 24 June 2002. History of Oil in Russia, Sibneft, 2003. "The Oil and Gas Industry": 1999–2000 and 2000–2004, Kommersant, 23 October 2001 and 17 May ...
Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath scientist, inventor, poet and artist, the founder of Moscow State University. At the start of the 18th century the reforms of Peter the Great (founder of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Saint Petersburg State University) and the work of such champions as polymath Mikhail Lomonosov (the founder of Moscow State University) gave a great boost to the ...
spaceflight (theory principles that led to numerous inventions, derived the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation) Tsiolkovsky's drawings of astronaut in space: Mikhail Tsvet (1872–1919) Russian Empire: chromatography (specifically adsorption chromatography, the first chromatography method) A modern gas chromatography system: Alexei Tupolev (1925–2001)
Russia’s success at stabilising its economy in the face of Western sanctions is in large part thanks to its oil industry. The talks, while influenced by the war in Ukraine, are also meant to ...
Oil refinery, the earliest recorded one was active in Russia in 1745 (see mirnefti.ru (in Russian), init-e.ru (in Russian), www.most-most.ru (in Russian), also www.catalog-live.ru (in Russian) and also window.edu.ru (in Russian)) Pyotr Yeropkin, architect of the first ice palace' (translate from ru:Еропкин, Пётр Михайлович)
Oil field in California, 1938. The modern history of petroleum began in the nineteenth century with the refining of paraffin from crude oil. The Scottish chemist James Young in 1847 noticed a natural petroleum seepage in the Riddings colliery at Alfreton, Derbyshire from which he distilled a light thin oil suitable for use as lamp oil, at the same time obtaining a thicker oil suitable for ...