List of Russian electrical engineers

A

• 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

I

• Andronik Iosifyan, father of Soviet electromechanics, chief constructor of the first Soviet meteorological satellites, inventor of noncontact synchronized transmissions

J

• 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

  

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

  

• Nikolay Slavyanov, inventor of shielded metal arc welding
• Aleksandr Stoletov, physicist, inventor of photoelectric cell

T

• Leon Theremin, polymath, inventor of interlace, theremin (the first successful electronic musical instrument), terpsitone and rhythmicon (the first drum machine)

Y

• 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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