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List of Russian marine engineers

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Source revisionDec 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ6596088 ↗
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This list of Russian marine engineers includes naval engineers and inventors of the Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

Alphabetical list

A

Oleg Anikanov, supervised the construction of the first dry dock complexes in the USSR for maintaining and repairing nuclear submarines, construction of naval bases for the Northern and Baltic Fleets, and at Cam Ranh and Tartus.

Rostislav Alexeyev, designer of high-speed hydrofoils (Raketa) and ekranoplans, including the Caspian Sea Monster

Anatoly Alexandrov, inventor of degaussing, developer of naval nuclear reactors (including one for the first nuclear icebreaker)

B

Agustín de Betancourt, polymath-engineer and urban planner, co-designed the first Russian steamship

Charles Baird, industrialist who built the first Russian steamship

Mikhail Britnev, designer of the first metal-hull icebreaker Pilot

Ivan Bubnov, marine engineer and designer of Battleships and submarines for the Imperial Russian Navy.

D

Stefan Drzewiecki, designed the first electric-powered submarine and the first midget submarine, designed the first multi-person submarine and developed blade element theory.

J

Boris Jacobi, inventor of electric boat, developer of modern naval mining

K

Konstantin Khrenov, inventor of underwater welding

Viktor Kozin, inventor of resonance method of ice destruction

Alexey Krylov, general of the fleet, inventor of gyroscopic damping of ships, author of the unsinkability theory

L

Fyodor Litke, explorer, oceanographer, inventor of recording tide measurer

M

Stepan Makarov, Admiral and war hero, oceanographer, inventor of torpedo boat tender, builder of the first polar icebreaker, author of the insubmersibility theory

Victor Makeev, developer of the first intercontinental submarine-launched ballistic missile

N

Ludvig Nobel, designer of the modern oil tanker

P

Andrey Popov, Admiral and war hero, designed the first true Russian battleship Pyotr Velikiy

R

Peter the Great (Romanov), monarch and craftsman, inventor of yacht club and sounding line with separating plummet, founder of the Russian Navy

S

Johan Eberhard von Schantz, admiral, designer of gunboats and warships for the Imperial Russian Navy.

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