This list of Russian electrical engineers includes the electrical engineers, inventors and physicist from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.
See also the Category:Russian electrical engineers.
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Contents:
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- Zhores Alferov, physicist, inventor of heterotransistor, Nobel Prize winner
B
- Pyotr Bagration, inventor of dry galvanic cell and gold electroplating
- Lev Belkind, engineer and historian of science, author of the several biographies of famous Russian and foreign electrical engineers
- Nikolay Benardos, inventor of carbon arc welding (the first practical arc welding method)
- Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich, co-inventor of flip-flop and reflex klystron, major developer of radiolocation
- Mikhail Botvinnik, three times World Chess Champion, earned his doctorate in electrical engineering
D
- Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, inventor of three-phase electric power
G
- Boris Galitzine, inventor of electric seismograph
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- Andronik Iosifyan, father of Soviet electromechanics, chief constructor of the first Soviet meteorological satellites, inventor of noncontact synchronized transmissions
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- Boris Jacobi, inventor of electroplating, electrotyping, galvanoplastic sculpture and electric boat
K
- Konstantin Khrenov, inventor of underwater welding
L
- Dmitry Lachinov, inventor of economizer for electricity consumption, electrical insulation tester and optical dynamometer, pioneer of long-distance electricity transmission
- Alexander Lodygin, one of the inventors of incandescent light bulb, inventor of electric streetlight and tungsten filament
- Oleg Losev, inventor of light-emitting diode and crystadine
Schilling
P
- Vasily Petrov, inventor of electric arc and arc welding
- Fyodor Pirotsky, inventor of railway electrification system and electric tram
- Alexander Poniatoff, inventor of videotape recorder
- Alexander Popov, inventor of lightning detector, one of the inventors of radio
R
- Georg Wilhelm Richmann, inventor of electrometer, died from ball lightning during an experiment
- Boris Rosing, the first to use cathode ray tube in a TV system
S
- Pavel Schilling, inventor of shielded cable, electric mine and electromagnetic telegraph
Yablochkov - Nikolay Slavyanov, inventor of shielded metal arc welding
- Aleksandr Stoletov, physicist, inventor of photoelectric cell
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- Leon Theremin, polymath, inventor of interlace, theremin (the first successful electronic musical instrument), terpsitone and rhythmicon (the first drum machine)
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- Pavel Yablochkov, inventor of Yablochkov candle (the first commercially viable electric lamp), AC transformer and headlamp
Z
- Vladimir Zworykin, "the Father of television", inventor of iconoscope and kinescope
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