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Shukhov Tower in Moscow. Science and technology in Russia have developed rapidly since the Age of Enlightenment, when Peter the Great founded the Russian Academy of Sciences and Saint Petersburg State University and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov founded the Moscow State University, establishing a strong native tradition in learning and innovation.
This timeline of Russian innovation encompasses key events in the history of technology in Russia . The entries in this timeline fall into the following categories: indigenous invention, like airliners, AC transformers, radio receivers, television, artificial satellites, ICBMs.
The Russian IT sector drew comparatively little from Soviet-era institutions. [3] Russian IT companies were started in the early 1990s by founders with an academic background seeking to find a place in the new market economy. [3] Piracy was widespread in the country, with an estimated 90% of all software in Russia being pirated in 1997.
Yandex LLC (Russian: Яндекс, romanized: Yandeks, IPA:) is a Russian multinational technology company providing Internet-related products and services, including an Internet search engine called Yandex Search, launched in 1997, information services, e-commerce, transportation, maps and navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.
The history of computing in the Soviet Union began in the late 1940s, [1] when the country began to develop its Small Electronic Calculating Machine (MESM) at the Kiev Institute of Electrotechnology in Feofaniya. [2] Initial ideological opposition to cybernetics in the Soviet Union was overcome by a Khrushchev era policy that encouraged ...
Russia,[b]or the Russian Federation,[c]is a country spanning Eastern Europeand North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zonesand sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d]It is the world's ninth-most populous countryand Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanized country ...
301-350 (2022) MIREA building in 2015. MIREA — Russian Technological University (RTU MIREA) is The Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education «MIREA — Russian Technological University» (RTU MIREA). It is a higher educational institution in Moscow, Russia, which is an educational, research and innovation complex.
The Elektronika MK-51 calculator, introduced in 1982. Science and technology in the Soviet Union served as an important part of national politics, practices, and identity. From the time of Lenin until the dissolution of the USSR in the early 1990s, both science and technology were intimately linked to the ideology and practical functioning of ...