page_title: List of Russian people
section_title: Electrical engineers
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian people / Inventors and engineers / Electrical engineers
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of P. N. Yablochkov Русский: Портрет П. Н. Яблочкова
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.
  Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia.
context_section_description: Zhores Alferov, physicist, inventor of heterotransistor, Nobel Prize winner
  Nikolay Benardos, inventor of carbon arc welding (the first practical arc welding method)
  Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, inventor of three-phase electric power
  Boris Jacobi, inventor of electroplating, electrotyping, galvanoplastic sculpture and electric boat
  Konstantin Khrenov, inventor of underwater welding
  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
  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
  Georg Wilhelm Richmann, inventor of electrometer, died from ball lightning during an experiment
  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
  Pavel Yablochkov, inventor of Yablochkov candle (the first commercially viable electric lamp), transformer and headlamp
caption: Pavel Yablochkov
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