List of Russian naval engineers

Stepan Makarov, Russian Admiral, naval engineer and inventor

This list of Russian naval engineers includes the naval engineers and inventors of the Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

Alphabetical list

A

• 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

D

• Stefan Drzewiecki, designed the first electric-powered submarine and the first midget submarine, designed the first serial submarine, developed the 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
• Alexei Krylov, inventor of gyroscopic damping of ships, author of the unsinkability theory

  

  Krylov

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

  

  Nobel

• 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

  

  Spassky

R

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

S

• 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)

Y

• Vladimir Yourkevitch, designer of SS Normandie, developer of modern ship hull design

See also

• Defence industry of Russia
• Russian Navy