The Hall of Space Technology in the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics , Kaluga , Russia . The exhibition includes the models and replicas of the following Russian inventions:
This timeline of Russian innovation encompasses key events in the history of technology in Russia .
The entries in this timeline fall into the following categories:
indigenous invention, like airliners , AC transformers , radio receivers , television , artificial satellites , ICBMs
uniquely Russian products, objects and events, like Saint Basil's Cathedral , Matryoshka dolls , Russian vodka
products and objects with superlative characteristics, like the Tsar Bomba , the AK-47 , and the Typhoon-class submarine
scientific and medical discoveries, like the periodic law , vitamins and stem cells
This timeline includes scientific and medical discoveries, products and technologies introduced by various peoples of Russia and its predecessor states, regardless of ethnicity, and also lists inventions by naturalized immigrant citizens. Certain innovations achieved internationally may also appear in this timeline in cases where the Russian side played a major role in such projects.
All-Russia Exhibition 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod . An electric tram , an earlier invention by Fyodor Pirotsky , drives between the pavilions featuring breakthrough designs by Vladimir Shukhov : the world's first steel tensile structures , gridshells , thin-shells and the first hyperboloid steel tower . The exhibition demonstrated the first lightning detector and an early radio receiver of Alexander Popov , caterpillar tractor of Fyodor Blinov , the first Russian automobile, and other technical achievements.
The wooden churches of Kizhi , built completely without nails and featuring such traditional elements of Russian architecture as the tented roof , multiple onion domes and bochka roofs .