> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://avmaslakov.gitbook.io/memoria/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://avmaslakov.gitbook.io/memoria/unknown-russians.md).

# Unknown Russians

This is a list of a relatively unknown people with Russian roots, whose works or lives I admire. Some of them (most of them?) had a really hard life yet they manage to make an impact on all of us.

* [Alekseev, Rostislav](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostislav_Alexeyev) - a pioneer of hydrofoil ships and ground effect 

  vehicles. Alekseev was an accomplished designer of hydrofoil ships, such as 

  the Raketa, and became a prominent developer of ground effect vehicles, 

  particularly the  Caspian Sea Monster and the A-90 Orlyonok.
* [Bartini, Robert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludvigovich_Bartini) - a pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground effect 

  vehicles.
* [Chaplina, Vera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Chaplina) - a children's literature writer and naturalist.
* [Demiknov, Vladimir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov) - an organ transplantation pioneer, who performed several 

  transplants in the 1940s and 1950s, including the transplantation of a heart 

  into an animal and a heart–lung replacement in an animal. He is also well 

  known for his dog head transplants, which he conducted during the 1950s, 

  resulting in two-headed dogs
* [Kondratyuk, Yuri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kondratyuk) - a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician

  and a visionary who, in the early 20th century, developed the first known 

  lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), a key concept for landing and return spaceflight

  from Earth to the Moon.
* [Kuindzhi, Arkhip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhip_Kuindzhi) - a landscape painter, known for his light effects and 

  intense colors shown in main tones.
* [Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky) - a pioneer in colour photography. Best known for 

  his early 20th-century Russia photoarchive.
* [Rakhmanov, Nikolai](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%28%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%29) - a photographer. His book "Moscow" won "The most 

  beautiful book" award in 1972.
* [Shukhov, Vladimir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Shukhov) - an engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned

  for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering

  that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first 

  hyperboloid structures, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures,

  gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. 

  He is also the inventor of the first cracking method.
* [Theremin, Leon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Theremin) - a pioneer of the first electronic musical instruments,

  creator of Thereminvox and surveillance device called "The Thing", which hung

  in the US ambassador’s residential office in Moscow for seven years.
* [Vertov, Dziga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziga_Vertov) - a pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, 

  as well as a cinema theorist. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted 

  Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the 8th best film ever made.
* [Yermolyeva, Zinaida](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinaida_Yermolyeva) - a microbiologist most notable for independently 

  synthesizing penicillin for the Soviet military during World War II.
* [Yourkevich, Vladimir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Yourkevich) - naval engineer and designer of the ocean liner 

  SS Normandie.
* [Zworykin, Vladimir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_K._Zworykin) - an engineer, and pioneer of television technology. 

  Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing 

  cathode ray tubes.

## See also

* [List of Russian inventors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_inventors)