List of Russian IT developers
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This list of Russian IT developers includes hardware engineers, computer scientists and programmers from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.
See also Category:Russian computer scientists and Category:Russian computer programmers.
Alphabetical list
A
Georgy Adelson-Velsky, inventor of AVL tree algorithm, developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
Andrey Andreev, creator of Badoo, one of the world's largest dating sites, and the 10th largest social network in the world
Vladimir Arlazarov, DBS Ines, developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
B
Boris Babayan, developer of the Elbrus-series supercomputers, founder of Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST)
Alexander Brudno, described the alpha-beta (α-β) search algorithm
Nikolay Brusentsov, inventor of the ternary computer (Setun)
C
Andrei Chernov, one of the founders of the Russian Internet and the creator of KOI8-R character encoding
Alexey Chervonenkis, developed the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, also known as the "fundamental theory of learning", a key part of computational learning theory
D
Mikhail Donskoy, a leading developer of Kaissa, the first computer chess champion
Pavel Durov, founded the VKontakte.ru social network, #35 on Alexa's Top 500 Most Visited Global Websites, the 6th largest social network in the world, and Telegram
E
Andrey Ershov, developed Rapira programming language, started the predecessor to the Russian National Corpus
G
Vadim Gerasimov, one of the original co-developers of the famous video game Tetris
Victor Glushkov, a founder of cybernetics, inventor of the first personal computer, MIR
K
Yevgeny Kaspersky, developer of Kaspersky antivirus products
Anatoly Karatsuba, developed the Karatsuba algorithm (the first fast multiplication algorithm)
Leonid Khachiyan, developed the Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming
Tigran Khudaverdyan, deputy CEO of Yandex
Lev Korolyov, co-developed the first Soviet computers
Semen Korsakov, first to use punched cards for information storage and search
Alexander Kronrod, developer of Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula and Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion
Nikita Kolesnikov, developer of the video game Hello Neighbor
L
Evgenii Landis, inventor of AVL tree algorithm
Sergey Lebedev, developer of the first Soviet and European electronic computers, MESM and BESM
Vladimir Levenshtein, developed the Levenshtein automaton, Levenshtein coding and Levenshtein distance
Leonid Levin, IT scientist, developed the Cook–Levin theorem (the foundation for computational complexity)
Oleg Lupanov, coined the term "Shannon effect"; developed the (k, s)-Lupanov representation of Boolean functions
M
Yuri Matiyasevich, solved Hilbert's tenth problem
Alexander Mikhailov, coined the term "informatics"
Anatoly Morozov, worked on automated control systems, problem-focused complexes, modelling, and situational management
N
Anton Nossik, godfather of the Russian internet who began Russian online news
P
Alexey Pajitnov, inventor of Tetris
Victor Pan, worked in the area of polynomial computations
Igor Pavlov, creator of the file archiver 7-Zip; creator of the 7z archive format
Svyatoslav Pestov, developer of jEdit text editor and Factor programming language
Vladimir Pokhilko, specialized in human–computer interaction
Yuriy Polyakov, developed an approximate method for nonlinear differential and integrodifferential equations
R
Bashir Rameev, developer of Strela, the first mainframe computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union
Alexander Razborov, won the Nevanlinna Prize for introducing the "approximation method" in proving Boolean circuit lower bounds of some essential algorithmic problems, and the Gödel Prize for the paper "Natural Proofs"
Eugene Roshal, developer of the Far Manager, RAR file format and WinRAR file archiver
S
Ilya Segalovich, founder and one of the first programmers of Yandex, Russian search engine
Anatoly Shalyto, initiator of the Foundation for Open Project Documentation; developed Automata-based programming
Dmitry Sklyarov, computer programmer known for his 2001 arrest by American law enforcement; United States v. Elcom Ltd.
Alexander Stepanov, created and implemented the C++ Standard Template Library
Igor Sysoev, creator of nginx, the popular high performance web server, and founder of NGINX, Inc.
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