This list of Russian

marine engineers Marine engineering is the engineering of boats, ships, submarines, and any other marine vessel. Here it is also taken to include the engineering of other ocean systems and structures – referred to in certain academic and professional circl ...

includes

naval engineers A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions. It include ...

and inventors of the Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

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Oleg Anikanov Oleg Karpovich Anikanov (russian: Олег Карпович Аниканов; 19 July 1933 – 24 April 2021) was an officer of the Soviet and later Russian navies. Over his career he reached the rank of ''general-polkovnik'', equivalent to col ...

, supervised the construction of the first

dry dock A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...

complexes in the USSR for maintaining and repairing nuclear submarines, construction of naval bases for the

Northern Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ra ...

and

Baltic Fleet , image = Great emblem of the Baltic fleet.svg , image_size = 150 , caption = Baltic Fleet Great ensign , dates = 18 May 1703 – present , country = , allegiance = (1703–1721) (1721–1917) (1917–1922) (1922–1991)(1991–present) ...

s, and at Cam Ranh and Tartus. * Rostislav Alexeyev, designer of high-speed

hydrofoil A hydrofoil is a lifting surface, or foil, that operates in water. They are similar in appearance and purpose to aerofoils used by aeroplanes. Boats that use hydrofoil technology are also simply termed hydrofoils. As a hydrofoil craft gains sp ...

s ('' 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)

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* Agustín de Betancourt, polymath-engineer and urban planner, co-designed the first Russian

steamship A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels. The first steamships ...

* Charles Baird, industrialist who built the first Russian

* Mikhail Britnev, designer of the first metal-

hull Hull may refer to: Structures * Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle * Fuselage, of an aircraft * Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds * Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship * Submarine hull Mathematics * Affine hull, in affi ...

icebreaker '' Pilot'' * Ivan Bubnov, marine engineer and designer of Battleships and

submarine A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely op ...

s for the Imperial Russian Navy.

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Stefan Drzewiecki Stefan Drzewiecki (russian: Джеве́цкий Степа́н Ка́рлович (Казими́рович); 26 July 1844, Kunka, Podolia, Russian Empire (today Ukraine) – 23 April 1938, Paris) was a Polish scientist, journalist, engineer, con ...

, designed the first electric-powered submarine and the first midget submarine, designed the first multi-person submarine and developed blade element theory.

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* Boris Jacobi, inventor of

electric boat An electric boat is a powered watercraft driven by electric motors, which are powered by either on-board battery packs, solar panels or generators. While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines, with sail pow ...

, developer of modern

naval mining A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, any ve ...

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* Konstantin Khrenov, inventor of underwater welding *

Viktor Kozin Viktor Mikhailovich Kozin (russian: Козин, Виктор Михайлович ) (born February 22, 1953) is a Russian naval engineer, ship designer and inventor of a new method of icebreaking, called the resonance method of ice destruct ...

, inventor of

resonance method of ice destruction The Resonance method of ice destruction means breaking sheet-ice which has formed over a body of water by causing the ice and water to oscillate up and down until the ice suffers sufficient mechanical fatigue to cause a fracture. Resonance If ...

Alexey Krylov , birth_date = O.S. (August 15, 1863 N.S.) , death_date = , image = Alexey Krylov 1910s.JPG , image_size = 200px , caption = Official portrait (1910) , birth_place = Alatyrsky uezd of Simbirsk Gubernia, Russian ...

, general of the fleet, inventor of gyroscopic damping of ships, author of the unsinkability theory Alexey Krylov 1910s

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* Fyodor Litke, explorer, oceanographer, inventor of recording tide measurer

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Stepan Makarov Stepan Osipovich Makarov (russian: Степа́н О́сипович Мака́ров, uk, Макаров Степан Осипович; – ) was a Russian vice-admiral, commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, oceanographer, member of the R ...

, Admiral and war hero, oceanographer, inventor of torpedo boat tender, builder of the first polar icebreaker, author of the

insubmersibility Floodability is the susceptibility of a ship's construction to flooding. It also refers to the ability to intentionally flood certain areas of the hull for damage control purposes, or to increase stability, which is particularly important in comb ...

theory

* Victor Makeev, developer of the first intercontinental

submarine-launched ballistic missile A submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is a ballistic missile capable of being launched from submarines. Modern variants usually deliver multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), each of which carries a nuclear warhead ...

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* Ludvig Nobel, designer of the modern oil tanker

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* Andrey Popov, Admiral and war hero, designed the first true Russian battleship '' Pyotr Velikiy'' Igor Spassky

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Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

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

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* Johan Eberhard von Schantz, admiral, designer of gunboats and warships for the Imperial 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)

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Vladimir Yourkevitch Vladimir Yourkevitch (russian: Владимир Иванович Юркевич, also spelled Yourkevich, 1885 in Moscow – December 13, 1964) was a Russian naval engineer, and a designer of the ocean liner SS ''Normandie''. He worked in Ru ...

, designer of ''

SS Normandie The SS ''Normandie'' was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line ''Compagnie Générale Transatlantique'' (CGT). She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, transatlantic crossi ...

'', developer of modern ship hull (watercraft), hull design

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