* 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )

* 1948 – Lev Zeleny, Russian physicist

* 1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist ( d. 1896 )

Russian physicist Lev Landau used the idea for the Fermi liquid theory wherein low energy properties of interacting fermion systems were given in terms of what are now known as Landau-quasiparticles.

* 1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel ' dovich, Russian physicist ( b. 1914 )

The Soviet ( later, Russian ) team proposed the name nielsbohrium ( Ns ) in honor of the Danish nuclear physicist Niels Bohr.

* 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist ( b. 1904 )

* 2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist ( b. 1925 )

* 1898 – Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist ( d. 1974 )

* 1866 – Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist ( d. 1912 )

* 1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist ( d. 1996 )

* 1935 – Evgeny Velikhov, Russian physicist

In 1938, Russian physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa discovered that helium-4 has almost no viscosity at temperatures near absolute zero, a phenomenon now called superfluidity.

* 1977 – Gersh Budker, Russian physicist ( b. 1918 )

* 1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

* 1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1971 )

* 1894 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

* 1889 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian physicist ( d. 1982 )

* 1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician ( d. 1925 )

* 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist ( d. 1753 )

* 1890 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist ( d. 1957 )

* 1943 – Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist

* 1862 – Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist ( d. 1916 )

* 1896 – Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist ( b. 1839 )

* March 15 – Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Notable Russian scientists include Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Andrei Kolmogorov, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Semyonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Alexander Lodygin, Alexander Popov ( one of inventors of radio ), Nikolai Zhukovsky, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolay Basov ( co-inventors of laser ), Georgiy Gamov, Vladimir Zworykin, Lev Pontryagin, Sergei Sobolev, Pavel Yablochkov, Aleksandr Butlerov, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Sergey Korolyov and Mstislav Keldysh ( creators of the Soviet space program ), Aleksandr Lyapunov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Andrei Tupolev, Yuri Denisyuk ( the first practicable method of holography ), Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pyotr Kapitsa, Igor Sikorsky, Ludvig Faddeev, Zhores Alferov, Konstantin Novoselov, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Nikolai Trubetzkoy etc.

* Zhores A. Medvedev ( Russian dissident ; Medical Research Council )

Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (; born 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia ) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident.

Never once during the trying thirties did I come so close to succumbing to the private climate of opinion as to grant Russian communism even that most weasel-worded of encomiums `` an interesting experiment ''.

`` I would far rather die after a Russian occupation of this country -- by some deliberate act of refusal -- than die uselessly by atomisation ''.

With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

The world's first four-engined bomber was the Russian Il ' ya Muromets created in 1914 and successfully used in World War I.

On the Eastern Front of World War I, where combat did not bog down into trench warfare, German and Russian armies fought a war of maneuver over thousands of miles, giving the German leadership unique experience which the trench-bound Western Allies did not have.

Similar attacks led to a humorous Russian saying, " I haven't read Pasternak, but I condemn him ".

Russian demographer Boris Urlanis estimated in Voini I Narodo-Nacelenie Europi ( 1960 ) that in the first and second Balkan wars there were 122, 000 killed in action, 20, 000 dead of wounds, and 82, 000 dead of disease.

Opposed to Prussia's enforced alliance with Napoleon I, he left the Prussian army and served in the Russian army from 1812 to 1813 during the Russian Campaign, including the Battle of Borodino.

Eye Care (" see if I care "), Russian chauffeur Pikov Andropov (" pick up and drop off "), Leo Tolstoy biographer Warren Peace (" War and Peace "), and law firm Dewey, Cheetham and Howe (" Do we cheat ' em?

Discontent with Russian rule, Finnish national identity, and World War I eventually caused Finland to break away from Russia, taking advantage of the fact that Russia was withdrawing from World War I and a revolution was starting in earnest.

Meanwhile, between World War I and the Russian Revolution, the film industry, and the infrastructure needed to support it ( e. g., electrical power ), had deteriorated to the point of unworkability.

The main factors behind the Finnish Civil War were World War I, the collapse of the Russian Empire, and the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

In order to gain weaponry, some of the Red Guards located along the Viipuri-Tampere railway had been alerted beforehand, on 23 – 26 January, to safeguard Russian trains carrying a heavy shipment of weapons to the Finnish Reds, as agreed between Ali Aaltonen and V. I.

" His closing paragraph stated: " I belong to the Left and must work inside it, much as I hate Russian totalitarianism and its poisonous influence in this country.

However, Germany, as a result of the Communists ' determination to end Russian involvement in World War I, carved large Eastern territories following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

This was the outcome of the Russo-Swedish War from 1741 to 1743 where the Russian Empress made the imposition of her relative Adolf Frederick as the heir to the Swedish Throne, to succeed Frederick I who lacked legitimate issue, as a peace condition.

After the outbreak of World War I, which confronted the partitioning powers against each other, Piłsudski's paramilitary units stationed in Galicia were turned into the Polish Legions, and as a part of the Austro-Hungarian Army fought on the Russian front.

* 1916 – Erzurum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.

Starving and displaced, many Kazakhs joined in the general Central Asian Revolt against conscription into the Russian imperial army, which the tsar ordered in July 1916 as part of the effort against Germany in World War I.