List of Russian electrical engineers

This list of Russian electrical engineers includes the electrical engineers, inventors and physicist from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

See also the Category:Russian electrical engineers.

A

 * Zhores Alferov, physicist, inventor of heterotransistor, Nobel Prize winner

B

 * Pyotr Bagration, inventor of dry galvanic cell and gold electroplating
 * Lev Belkind, engineer and historian of science, author of the several biographies of famous Russian and foreign electrical engineers
 * Nikolay Benardos, inventor of carbon arc welding (the first practical arc welding method)
 * Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich, co-inventor of flip-flop and reflex klystron, major developer of radiolocation
 * Mikhail Botvinnik, three times World Chess Champion, earned his doctorate in electrical engineering

D

 * Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, inventor of three-phase electric power

G

 * Boris Galitzine, inventor of electric seismograph

I

 * Andronik Iosifyan, father of Soviet electromechanics, chief constructor of the first Soviet meteorological satellites, inventor of noncontact synchronized transmissions

J

 * Boris Jacobi, inventor of electroplating, electrotyping, galvanoplastic sculpture and electric boat

K

 * Konstantin Khrenov, inventor of underwater welding

L

 * Dmitry Lachinov, inventor of economizer for electricity consumption, electrical insulation tester and optical dynamometer, pioneer of long-distance electricity transmission
 * 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 crystadinePavel Shilling.jpg''']]

P

 * 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
 * Alexander Popov, inventor of lightning detector, one of the inventors of radio

R

 * Georg Wilhelm Richmann, inventor of electrometer, died from ball lightning during an experiment
 * Boris Rosing, the first to use cathode ray tube in a TV system

S

 * Pavel Schilling, inventor of shielded cable, electric mine and electromagnetic telegraphYablochkov 1.jpg''']]
 * Nikolay Slavyanov, inventor of shielded metal arc welding
 * Aleksandr Stoletov, physicist, inventor of photoelectric cell

T

 * Leon Theremin, polymath, inventor of interlace, theremin (the first successful electronic musical instrument), terpsitone and rhythmicon (the first drum machine)

Y

 * Pavel Yablochkov, inventor of Yablochkov candle (the first commercially viable electric lamp), AC transformer and headlamp

Z

 * Vladimir Zworykin, "the Father of television", inventor of iconoscope and kinescope