page_title: List of Russian scientists
section_title: Naval engineers
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian scientists / Naval engineers
caption_attribution_description: Stepan Osipovich Makarov (Степан Осипович Макаров), Russian Admiral (b.1849-d.1904)
context_page_description: Karl Ernst von Baer, polymath naturalist, formulated the geological Baer's law on river erosion and embryological Baer's laws, founder of the Russian Entomological Society, co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society
  Alexander Borodin, chemist and composer, author of the famous opera Prince Igor, discovered Borodin reaction, co-discovered Aldol reaction
  Alexander Chizhevsky, interdisciplinary scientist, biophysicist, philosopher and artist, founder of heliobiology and modern air ionification, Russian cosmist
  Johann Gottlieb Georgi, naturalist, chemist, mineralogist, ethnographer and explorer, the first to describe omul fish of Baikal, published the first full-scale work on ethnography of indigenous peoples of Russia
context_section_description: Rostislav Alexeyev, designer of high-speed Raketa hydrofoils and ekranoplans, including the Caspian Sea Monster
  Anatoly Alexandrov, inventor of degaussing, developer of naval nuclear reactors (including one for the first nuclear icebreaker)
  Mikhail Britnev, designer of the first metal-hull icebreaker Pilot
  Boris Jacobi, inventor of electric boat, developer of modern naval mining
  Konstantin Khrenov, inventor of underwater welding
  Alexey Krylov, general of the fleet, inventor of gyroscopic damping of ships, author of the insubmersibility theory
  Fyodor Litke, explorer, inventor of recording tide measurer
  Stepan Makarov, admiral, 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
  Ludvig Nobel, designer of the modern oil tanker
  Peter the Great, monarch and craftsman, inventor of yacht club and sounding line with separating plummet, founder of the Russian Navy
  Pavel Schilling, inventor of electric naval mine
  Igor Spassky, designer of the Sea Launch platform and over 200 nuclear submarines, including the world's largest submarines (Typhoon class)
  Vladimir Yourkevitch, designer of SS Normandie, developer of modern ship hull design
caption: Makarov
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