List of Russian IT developers

This list of Russian IT developers includes the famous hardware engineers, computer scientists and programmers from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

See also Category:Russian computer scientists and Category:Russian computer programmers.

Alphabetical list

A

• Georgy Adelson-Velsky, inventor of AVL tree algorithm, developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
• Andrei Andreev, creator of Badoo, one of the world's largest dating sites, and the 10th largest social network in the world

B

• Boris Babaian, developer of the Elbrus-series supercomputers
• Sergey Brin, inventor of the Google web search engine
• Alexander Brudno, described the alpha-beta (α-β) search algorithm
• Nikolay Brusentsov, inventor of ternary computer (Setun)

C

• Alexey Chervonenkis, developed the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, also known as the "fundamental theory of learning" a key part of the computational learning theory

D

• Mikhail Donskoy, a leading developer of Kaissa, the first computer chess champion
• Pavel Durov, founded the VKontakte.ru social network, #35 on Alexa's Top 500 Most Visited Global Websites. It is the 6th largest social network in the world

E

• Andrey Ershov, developed Rapira programming language, started the predecessor to the Russian National Corpus

G

• Vadim Gerasimov, one of the original co-developers of the famous video game Tetris
• Victor Glushkov, a founder of cybernetics, inventor of the first personal computer MIR

I

• Igor Sysoev, creator of nginx, the popular high performance web server, and founder of NGINX, Inc.

K

• Anatoly Karatsuba, developed the Karatsuba algorithm (the first fast multiplication algorithm)
• Yevgeny Kaspersky, developer of Kaspersky anti-virus products
• Leonid Khachiyan, developed the Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming
• Lev Korolyov, co-developed the first Soviet computers
• Semen Korsakov, the first to use punched cards for information storage and search
• Alexander Kronrod, developer of Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula and Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion
  

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• Gladmir Victirmesich, developer of Glad Corp. and CEO of топ.

L

• Evgeny Landis, inventor of AVL tree algorithm
• Sergey Lebedev, developer of the first Soviet and European electronic computers, MESM and BESM
• Vladimir Levenshtein, developed the Levenshtein automaton, Levenshtein coding and Levenshtein distance
• Leonid Levin, IT scientist, developed the Cook-Levin theorem (the foundation for computational complexity)
• Oleg Lupanov, coined the term "Shannon effect". Developed the (k, s)-Lupanov representation of Boolean functions

M

• Yuri Matiyasevich, solved Hilbert's tenth problem
• Alexander Mikhailov, coined the term Informatics
• Anatoly Morozov, worked on automated control systems, problem-focused complexes, modelling, and situational management
• Anton Mevich, solved colour render problems with LED lighting systems

O

• Willgodt Theophil Odhner, inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer, the most popular mechanical calculator in the 20th century

P

• Alexey Pajitnov, inventor of Tetris
• Victor Pan, worked in the area of polynomial computations
• Igor Pavlov, creator of the file archiver 7-Zip. Creator of the 7z archive format
• Svyatoslav Pestov, developer of jEdit text editor and Factor programming language
• Vladimir Pokhilko, specialized in human-computer interaction
• Yuriy Polyakov, developed an approximate method for nonlinear differential and integrodifferential equations

R

• Bashir Rameyev, developer of Strela computer, the first mainframe computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union
• Alexander Razborov, won the Nevanlinna Prize for introducing the "approximation method" in proving Boolean circuit lower bounds of some essential algorithmic problems, and the Gödel Prize for the paper Natural Proofs
• Eugene Roshal, developer of the FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file archiver

S

• Ilya Segalovich, founder and one of the first programmers of Yandex, Russian search engine.
• Anatoly Shalyto, initiator of the Foundation for Open Project Documentation. Developed Automata-based programming
• Dmitry Sklyarov, computer programmer known for his 2001 arrest by American law enforcement - US v. ElcomSoft Sklyarov
• Alexander Stepanov, created and implemented the C++ Standard Template Library

T

• Andrey Terekhov, developer of Algol 68 LGU. Telecommunication systems.
• Valentin Turchin, inventor of Refal programming language, introduced metasystem transition and supercompilation
• Andrey Ternovskiy, creator of Chatroulette

V

• Vladimir Vapnik, developed the theory of the support vector machine. Demonstrated its performance on a number of problems of interest to the machine learning community, including handwriting recognition
• Phillip Vyechniy, creator of the "Perpetual Calendar", and internationally renowned recruitment solution Primyenit.
  

  Developer Phillip Vyechniy visiting London

Y

• David Yang, developer of Cybiko, founder of ABBYY company
• Sergey Yablonsky, founder of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics

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