Timeline of Russian innovation explained

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:

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.

Kievan Rus'

10th century

Kokoshnik
  • The kokoshnik is a traditional Russian head-dress for women. It is patterned to match the style of the sarafan and can be pointed or round. It is tied at the back of the head with long thick ribbons in a large bow. The forehead is sometimes decorated with pearls or other jewelry. The word kokoshnik appeared in the 16th century, however the earliest head-dress pieces of a similar type were found in the 10th to 12th century burials in Veliky Novgorod. It was worn by girls and women on special occasions until the Russian Revolution, and was subsequently introduced into Western fashion by Russian émigrés.[1]
    Kvass / Okroshka
  • Kvass or kvas, sometimes called in English a "bread drink", is a fermented beverage made from black rye or rye bread, which contributes to its light or dark colour. By the content of alcohol resulted from fermentation, it is classified as non-alcoholic: up to 1.2% of alcohol, which is so low that it is considered acceptable for consumption by children. While the early low-alcoholic prototypes of kvass were known in some ancient civilizations, its modern, almost non-alcoholic form originated in Eastern Europe. Kvass was first mentioned in the Russian Primary Chronicle, which tells how Prince Vladimir the Great gave kvass among other beverages to the people, while celebrating the Christianization of Kievan Rus'. Kvass is also known as a main ingredient in okroshka, a Russian cold soup.[2] [3]
    Multidomed church
  • The multidomed church is a typical form of Russian church architecture, which distinguishes Russia from other Eastern Orthodox nations and Christian denominations. Indeed, the earliest Russian churches built just after the Christianization of Kievan Rus', were multi-domed, which led some historians to speculate what Russian pre-Christian pagan temples might have looked like. Namely, these early churches were 13-domed wooden Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod (989) and 25-domed stone Desyatinnaya Church in Kiev (989–996). The number of domes typically has a symbolical meaning in Russian architecture, for example 13 domes symbolize Christ with 12 Apostles, while 25 domes mean the same with additional 12 Prophets from the Old Testament. Multiple domes of Russian churches were often made of wood and were comparatively smaller than the Byzantine domes.[4] [5]
    Kissel
  • Kissel or kisel is a dessert that consists of sweetened juice, typically that of berries, thickened with oats, cornstarch or potato starch, with red wine or dried fruits added sometimes. The dessert can be served either hot or cold, and if made using less thickening starch it can be consumed as a beverage, which is common in Russia. Kissel was mentioned for the first time in the Primary Chronicle, where it forms part of the story of how a besieged Russian city was saved from nomadic Pechenegs.[3] [6]

    11th century

    Birch bark document
  • A birch bark document is a document written on pieces of birch bark. This form of writing material was developed independently by several ancient cultures. In Rus' the usage of the specially prepared birch bark as a cheap replacement for pergament or paper became widespread soon after the Christianization of the country. The earliest Russian birch bark documents (likely written in the first quarter of the 11th century) have been found in Veliky Novgorod. In total, more than 1000 such documents have been discovered, most of them in Novgorod and the rest in other ancient cities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Many birch bark documents were written by common people rather than by clergy or nobility. This fact led some historians to suggest that before the Mongol invasion of Rus' the level of literacy in the country might have been considerably higher than in contemporary Western Europe.[7]
    Koch / Icebreaker
  • The koch was an ancient form of icebreaker, being a special type of one or two small wooden sailing ships with a mast, used for voyages in the icy conditions of the Arctic seas and Siberian rivers. The koch was developed by the Russian Pomors in the 11th century, when they started settling on the White Sea shores. The koch's hull was protected by a belt of ice-floe resistant flush skin-planking (made of oak or larch) along the variable water-line, and had a false keel for on-ice portage. If a koch was in danger of being trapped in the ice-fields, its rounded bodylines below the surface would allow for the ship to be pushed up out of the water and onto the ice with no damage. In the 19th century similar protective features were adopted to modern icebreakers.[8]
    Gudok
  • The gudok is an ancient East Slavic string musical instrument, played with a bow. It usually had three strings, two of them tuned in unison and played as a drone, the third tuned a fifth higher. All three strings were in the same plane at the bridge, so that a bow could make them all sound at the same time. Sometimes the gudok also had several sympathetic strings (up to eight) under the sounding board. These made the gudok's sound warm and rich. It was also possible to play while standing or dancing, which made it popular among skomorokhs. The name gudok comes from the 17th century, however the same type of instrument existed from 11th to 16th century, but was called smyk.[9]
    Medovukha
  • Medovukha is an old Slavic honey-based alcoholic beverage very similar to mead, but much cheaper and faster to make. Since the old times the Slavs exported the fermented mead as a luxury product to Europe in huge quantities. Fermentation occurs naturally over 15 to 50 years, originally rendering the product very expensive and only accessible to the nobility. However, in the 11th century East Slavs found that fermentation occurred much faster when the honey mixture was heated, enabling medovukha to become a commonly available drink in the territory of Rus'. In the 14th century, the invention of distillation made it possible to create a prototype of the modern medovukha, however vodka was invented at the same time and gradually surpassed medovukha in popularity.[10]
    1048 Russian fist fighting
  • Russian fist fighting is an ancient Russian combat sport, similar to modern boxing. However, it features some indigenous techniques and often fought in collective events called Stenka na Stenku ("Wall against Wall"). It has existed since the times of Kievan Rus', first mentioned in the Primary Chronicle in the year 1048. The government and the Russian Orthodox Church often tried to prohibit the fights; however, fist fighting remained popular until the 19th century, while in the 20th century some of the old techniques were adopted for the modern Russian martial arts.[3] [11]

    12th century

    Pernach
  • The pernach is a type of flanged mace developed since the 12th century in the region of Kievan Rus' and later widely used throughout Europe. The name comes from the Russian word перо (pero) meaning feather, reflecting the form of pernach that resembled an arrow with fletching. The most popular variety of pernach had six flanges and was called shestopyor (from Russian shest and pero, that is six-feathered). Pernach was the first form of the flanged mace to find wide usage. It was perfectly suited to defeat plate armour and plate mail. In later times it was often used as a symbol of power by military leaders in Eastern Europe.[12]
    Shashka
  • The shashka is a special kind of sabre, a very sharp, single-edged, single-handed, and guardless sword. In appearance, the shashka is midway between a full sabre and a straight sword. It has a slightly curved blade, and could be effective for both slashing and thrusting. Originally the shashka was developed in the 12th century by Circassians in the Northern Caucasus. These lands were integrated into the Russian Empire in the 18th century. By that time shashka was adopted as their main cold weapon by Russian Cossacks.[13]
    Treshchotka
  • The treshchotka, sometimes referred in plural as treshchotki, is a Russian folk music idiophone instrument which is used to imitate hand clapping. Basically it is a set of small boards on a string that get clapped together as a group. There are no known documents confirming the usage of the treshchotka in ancient Russia, however, the remnants of what might have been the earliest 12th-century treshchotka were recently found in Novgorod.[14]
    1149 bear spear
  • The bear spear or rogatina was a medieval type of spear used in bear hunting and also to hunt other large animals, like wisents and war horses. The sharpened head of a bear spear was enlarged and usually had the form of a bay leaf. Right under the head there was a short crosspiece that helped to fix the spear in the body of an animal. Often it was placed against the ground on its rear point, which made it easier to absorb the impact of the attacking beast. The Russian chronicles first mention rogatina as a military weapon in the year 1149, and as a hunting weapon in the year 1255.[15]

    13th century

    Sokha
  • The sokha is a light wooden plough which could be pulled by one horse. Its origin was in northern Russia, most likely in the Novgorod Republic, where it was used as early as in the 13th century. A characteristic feature of sokha construction is the bifurcated plowing tip (рассоха), so that a sokha has two plowshares, later made of metal, which cut the soil. The sokha is an evolution of a scratch-plough by an addition of a spade-like detail which turns the cut soil over (in regular ploughs the curved mouldboard both cuts and turns the soil).[16]
    Pelmeni
  • Pelmeni is a dish originating from Siberia, now considered part of Russian national cuisine. It is a type of dumpling consisting of a filling that is wrapped in thin unleavened dough. The word pelmeni comes from the Finno-Ugric Komi, Udmurt, and Mansi languages. It is unclear when pelmeni entered the cuisines of indigenous Siberian people and when it first appeared in Russian cuisine, but most likely it was during the Mongol conquests and Mongol-Tatar invasion of Rus' in the 13th century, when Mongol-Tatars took the basic idea from the Chinese dumplings and brought it to Siberia and Eastern Europe.[17]
    Onion dome
  • The onion dome is a dome whose shape resembles an onion. Such domes are often larger in diameter than the drum upon which they are set, and their height usually exceeds their width. The whole bulbous structure tapers smoothly to a point. The so-called onion dome is the dominant form for church domes in Russia, and though the earliest preserved Russian domes of the type date from the 16th century, illustrations of the old chronicles indicate that they were used since the late 13th century.[18]

    Grand duchy of Moscow

    14th century

    Lapta

    Zvonnitsa

    Anbur script The alphabet was introduced by a Russian missionary, Stepan Khrap, also known as Saint Stephen of Perm (Степан Храп, св. Стефан Пермский) in 1372. The name Abur is derived from the names of the first two characters: An and Bur. The alphabet derived from Cyrillic and Greek, and Komi tribal signs, the latter being similar in the appearance to runes or siglas poveiras, because they were created by incisions, rather than by usual writing. The alphabet was in use until the 17th century, when it was superseded by the Cyrillic script. Abur was also used as cryptographic writing for the Russian language.

    1376 Sarafan

    15th century

    Bardiche

    Boyar hat

    Gulyay-gorod

    Ukha

    Russian oven

    Rassolnik

    c. 1430 Russian vodka

    Early 16th century

    Kokoshnik (architecture)

    1510s Tented roof masonry

    1530 Middle Muscovite

    Tsardom of Russia

    Late 16th century

    Russian abacus

    1550 Streltsy

    1552 Battery-tower

    1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral

    1566 Great Abatis Line

    1586 Tsar Cannon

    17th century

    Bochka roof

    Gorodki

    Roller coaster

    Bird of Happiness

    Dymkovo toy

    Troika

    1630 Late Muscovite Russian architecture characterized by many large cathedral-type churches with five onion-like cupolas, surrounding them with tents of bell towers and aisles.

    1659 Khokhloma

    1679 Circle of fifths

    1685 Tula pryanik

    1688 Balalaika

    Glass-holder

    1693

    Early 18th century

    Table-glass

    1704 Decimal currency

    1717 Metal lathe compound slide

    1718 Yacht club

    Russian Empire

    1720s

    1725 Rebar

    1730s

    1732 Cast iron cupola / Lightning rod

    1733 Peter and Paul Cathedral

    1735 Tsar Bell

    1739 Ice palace

    1740s

    1741 Quick-firing gun

    1750s

    1754 Coaxial rotor / Model helicopter

    1756 Law of Mass Conservation

    1757 Licorne (Russian field gun)

    1760s

    1761 Atmosphere of Venus

    1762 Off-axis reflecting telescope

    1770s

    1770 Amber Room

    1770 Thunder Stone

    1776 Orenburg shawl

    1778 Russian samovar

    1780s

    1784 Orlov Trotter

    1790s

    Russian guitar

    Valenki

    1793 Screw drive elevator

    1795 Fedoskino miniature / Russian lacquer art

    1796 Peaked cap

    19th century

    1802 Modern powdered milk

    1802 Continuous electric arc

    1805 Droshky any of various 2 or 4 wheeled, horse-drawn, public carriages (early taxicabs).

    1810s

    1811 Sailor cap

    1812 Electric telegraph

    1812 Naval mine

    1814 Beehive frame

    1820s

    1820 Antarctica

    1820s Russian Revival architecture is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of pre-Peterine Russian architecture and elements of Byzantine architecture.

    1820 Monorail

    1825 Zhostovo painting

    1828 Electromagnetic telegraph

    1829 Industrial production process of sunflower oil

    1829 Three bolt diving equipment

    1829 Hyperbolic geometry

    1830s

    1832 Data recording equipment

    1833 Lenz's law

    1835 Centrifugal fan

    1838 Electrotyping

    1839 Electric boat

    1839 Galvanoplastic sculpture

    1840s

    1847 Field anesthesia

    1848 Modern oil well

    1850s

    1850s Neo-Byzantine architecture in the Russian Empire emerged in the 1850s and became an officially endorsed preferred architectural style for church construction during the reign of Alexander II of Russia (1855–1881), replacing the Russo-Byzantine style of Konstantin Thon.

    1851 Struve Geodetic Arc

    1851 Russian Railway Troops

    1854 Modern field surgery

    1854 Stereo camera

    1857-1861 Theory of chemical structure

    1857 Radiator

    1858 Saint Isaac's Cathedral

    1859 Aluminothermy

    1860s

    1860s Russian salad

    1861 Beef Stroganoff

    1864 Modern icebreaker

    1868 Grow light

    1869 Hectograph

    1869 Periodic table of the elements

    1870s

    Gymnasterka

    1872 Electric lamp

    1872 Aldol reaction

    1873 Odhner Arithmometer

    1873 Armored cruiser

    1874 Headlamp

    1875 Railway electrification system

    1876 AC transformer

    1876 Yablochkov candle

    1877 Torpedo boat tender

    1877 Tracked wagon

    1878 Cylindrical oil tank

    1879 Modern oil tanker

    1880s

    1880s Winogradsky column

    1888s Three-phase electric power

    1880 Vitamins

    1880 Electric tram

    1881 Carbon arc welding

    1883 Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

    1884 Mozhaysky's airplane

    1884 Electric submarine

    1888 Caterpillar farm tractor

    1888 Shielded metal arc welding

    1888 Solar cell (based on the outer photoelectric effect)

    1889 Three-phase induction motor

    1889 Three-phase transformer

    1889 Mosin–Nagant rifle

    1890s

    1890 Matryoshka doll

    1890 Powered exoskeleton

    1890 Chemosynthesis

    1891 Thermal chemical cracking

    1891 Long-distance transmission of three-phase electric power

    1891 Three-phase hydroelectric power plant

    1892 Viruses

    1894 Nephoscope

    1895 Lightning detector / Radio receiver

    1896 Thin-shell structure

    1896 Tensile structure

    1896 Hyperboloid structure

    1897 Gridshell

    1898 Polar icebreaker

    1899 Radiation pressure

    20th century

    Mstyora miniature

    1901 Classical conditioning

    1901 Chromatography

    1902 Fire fighting foam

    1903 Theoretical foundations of spaceflight

    1903 Cytoskeleton

    1903 Motor ship

    1904 Radio jamming

    1904 Foam extinguisher

    1905 Auscultatory blood pressure measurement

    1905 Korotkov sounds

    1905 Insubmersibility

    1906 Electric seismometer

    1907 Aerosledge

    1907 Pulsejet

    1907 Bayan

    1907 Church of the Savior on Blood

    1910s

    1910 Polybutadiene

    1910 Montage (filmmaking) or Kuleshov Effect (by Lev Kuleshov)

    1910 Non-Aristotelian logicBy Nikolai Vasilyev

    1911 Knapsack parachute

    1911 Television

    1911 Stanislavski's system

    1913 Zaum

    1913 Airliner

    1913 Half-track

    1914 Aerobatics

    1914 Gyrocar

    1914 Tachanka

    1914 Strategic bomber

    1914 Aerial ramming

    1915 Activated charcoal gas mask

    1915 Vezdekhod

    1915 Tsar Tank

    1916 Trans-Siberian Railway

    1916 Optophonic piano[86]

    1916 Avtomat rifle. Unlike 1890's Cei gas rifle, the Avtomat was designed for 25-round detachable magazines. Contemporary Occidental writers have struggled to classify the Fedorov Avtomat. Some consider it to be an "early predecessor" or "ancestor" to the modern assault rifle,[87] [88] [89] [90] while others believe that the Fedorov Avtomat was the world's first assault rifle.[91]

    Soviet Russia and Soviet Union

    Late 1910s

    1917 Socialist realism

    1918 Air ioniser

    1918 Budenovka

    1918 Ushanka

    1918 Jet pack (not built)

    1919 Film school

    1919 Constructivism (art)

    1920s

    1920s Constructivist architecture

    1920 Theremin

    1921 Aerial refueling

    1923 Iconoscope

    1923 Palekh miniature

    1924 Flying wing

    1924 Optophonic Piano

    1924 Stem cells

    1924 Primordial soup hypothesis (Abiogenesis)

    1924 Diesel electric locomotive

    1925 Interlaced video

    1926 Graphical sound

    1927 Light-emitting diode

    1927 Polikarpov Po-2 biplane

    1928 Gene pool

    1928 Rabbage

    1929 Cadaveric blood transfusion

    1929 Kinescope

    1929 Pobedit

    1929 Teletank / Military robot

    1930s

    Spring-loaded camming device

    Abalakov thread climbing device

    Electric rocket motor

    1930s Modern ship hull design

    1930 Blood bank

    1930 Single lift-rotor helicopter

    1930 Paratrooping

    1931 Pressure suit

    1931 Hypergolic rocket propellants

    1931 Rhythmicon / Drum machine

    1931 Flame tank

    1932 Postconstructivism

    1932 Postal code

    1932 Children's railway

    1932 Terpsitone

    1932 Underwater welding

    1933 Human kidney transplant

    1933 Sampling theorem

    1933 Tandem rotor helicopter

    1933 Stalinist architecture

    1934 Tupolev ANT-20

    1934 Cherenkov detector

    1935 Kirza

    1935 Moscow Metro

    1935 Kremlin stars

    1936 Acoustic microscopy

    1936 Airborne firefighting[106]

    1937 Artificial heart

    1937 Modern evolutionary synthesis

    1937 Superfluidity

    1937 Drag chute

    1937 Drifting ice station

    1937 Welded sculpture

    1937 Fire-fighting sport

    1937-1957 ANS synthesizer[110]

    1938 Deep column station

    1938 Sambo

    1939 Kirlian photography

    1939 Vought-Sikorsky VS-300

    1939 Ilyushin Il-2

    1939 Self-propelled multiple rocket launcher

    1940s

    1940s Ballast cleaner

    1940s TRIZ

    1940s Sikorsky R-4

    1940 T-34 tank

    1941 Competitive rhythmic gymnastics

    1941 Maksutov telescope

    1941 Degaussing

    1942 Winged tank

    1942 Gramicidin S

    1944 Microtron

    1944 EPR spectroscopy

    1945 T-54/55 tank

    1945 Passive resonant cavity bug

    1946 Heart-lung transplant

    1947 Modern multistage rocket

    1947 MiG-15

    1947 AK-47

    1947 Lung transplant (Non-human)

    1947 Light beam microphone

    1949 Staged combustion cycle

    1949 Reactive armour

    1950s

    1950s Head transplant

    1950s Magnetotellurics

    1950 MESM

    1950 Berkovich tip

    1951 Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction

    1951 Explosively pumped flux compression generator

    1952 Masers

    1952 Seven Sisters (Moscow)

    1952 Carbon nanotubes

    1952 Anthropometric cosmetology or Ilizarov apparatus

    1954 Nuclear power plant

    1955 MiG-21

    1955 Ballistic missile submarine

    1955 Fast-neutron reactor

    1955 Leningrad Metro

    1955 Tokamak

    1957 ANS synthesizer

    1957 Synchrophasotron

    1957 Spaceport

    1957 Intercontinental ballistic missile

    1957 Orbital space rocket

    1957 Artificial satellite

    1957 Space capsule

    1957 Raketa hydrofoil

    1958 Modern ternary computer

    1959 Nuclear icebreaker

    1959 Space probe

    1959 Missile boat

    1959 Kleemenko cycle

    1959 Staged combustion cycle

    1960s

    1960s Rocket boots

    1960 Reentry capsule

    1961 Human spaceflight

    1961 RPG-7

    1961 Lawrencium

    1961 Anti-ballistic missile

    1961 Space food

    1961 Space suit

    1961 Tsar Bomb

    1961 Platform screen doors

    1961 Ekranoplan

    1961 Mil Mi-8

    1962 Detonation nanodiamond

    1962 AVL tree datastructure

    1962 3D holography

    1962 Modern stealth technology

    1963 KTM-5

    1963 Oxygen cocktail

    1964 Rutherfordium

    1964 Druzhba pipeline

    1964 Plasma propulsion engine

    1964 Kardashyov scale

    1965 Extra-vehicular activity

    1965 Molniya orbit satellite

    1965 Voitenko compressor

    1965 Proton rocket

    1965 Air-augmented rocket

    1966 Nobelium

    1966 Lander spacecraft

    1966 Orbiter

    1966 Regional jet

    1966 Caspian Sea Monster

    1966 Soyuz rocket

    1966 Orbital module

    1967 Space toilet

    1967 Ostankino Tower

    1967 The Motherland Calls

    1967 Computer for operations with functions

    1967 Automated space docking

    1967 Venus lander

    1968 Dubnium

    1968 Mil V-12

    1968 Supersonic transport

    1969 Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

    1969 Intercontinental Submarine-launched ballistic missile

    1970s

    1970s Semiconductor Heterostructures

    1970s Radial keratotomy

    1970 Excimer laser

    1970 Robotic sample return

    1970 Space rover

    1971 Space station

    1971 Kaissa (chess program)

    1972 Hall effect thruster

    1972 Mil Mi-24

    1972 Nuclear desalination

    1973 Reflectron

    1973 Skull crucible

    1974 Electron cooling

    1975 Underwater assault rifle

    1975 Arktika-class icebreaker

    1975 Androgynous Peripheral Attach System

    1976 Mobile ICBM

    1977 Vertical launching system

    1977 Kirov-class battlecruiser

    1978 Cargo spacecraft

    1978 Active protection system

    1979 Space-based radio telescope[124]

    1980s

    Kalina cycle

    1980s EHF therapy

    1980 Typhoon-class submarine

    1981 Quantum dot

    1981 Tupolev Tu-160

    1982 Helicopter ejection seat

    1984 Tetris

    1986 Modular space station

    1987 MIR submersible

    1987 RD-170 rocket engine

    1988 An-225

    1989 Kola Superdeep Borehole

    1989 Supermaneuverability

    1989 Tupolev Tu-155

    Early 1990s

    1989-1991 BARS apparatus

    1991 Thermoplan

    1991 Scramjet

    Russian Federation

    1990s

    RD-180 Engine

    1992 Znamya (space mirror)

    1992 Nuclotron

    1993 "Novichok"

    1993 RAR

    1996 Lake Vostok

    1997 Two-level single-vault transfer station

    1998 Beriev Be-200

    1998 Submarine-launched spacecraft

    1999 7z

    1999 Sea Launch

    1999 Flerovium

    2000s

    2000s Heterotransistor

    2000 Livermorium

    2000 Abstract state machine

    2001 Space tourism

    2001 Mirny Mine

    2001 Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

    2003 Park Pobedy metro escalators

    2003 Nihonium

    2003 Moscovium

    2003 Proof of the Poincaré conjecture

    2004 Nginx

    2004 Graphene

    2005 Orbitrap

    2006 PEARL (PEtawatt pARametric Laser)

    2006 Oganesson

    2007 NS 50 Let Pobedy

    2007 Father of all bombs

    2008 Denisovans

    2010s

    2010 Chatroulette

    2010 Tennessine

    2011

    2011 Nuclear power station barge

    2011 Nord Stream 1

    2011 Spektr-R

    2012 Russky Island Bridge

    2015 OCSiAl Graphetron

    2016 T-14 Armata

    2020s

    2020 COVID-19 vaccine

    See also

    Notes and References

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    2. http://www.kvas.ru/history.htm The history of kvas
    3. Web site: Пушкинский Дом (ИРЛИ РАН) > Новости. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316192444/http://www.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default.aspx?tabid=4869. dead. 16 March 2015.
    4. http://www.strangelove.net/~kieser/Russia/churches.html Russian Church Design
    5. http://www.skypalace.org/europe/slavic/east_slavic/russia/articles/domes.shtml About Russian Domes and Cupolas
    6. http://supercook.ru/zz265-02.html Kissels
    7. Web site: Древнерусские берестяные грамоты. http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110223205324/http://gramoty.ru/. dead. 23 February 2011. gramoty.ru.
    8. http://ris.npolar.no/documents/Seminars/Lyr/Marchenko_N.pdf Navigation in ice conditions. Experience of Russian sailors
    9. http://soros.novgorod.ru/projects/Toolkit/rmi/4.htm String instruments
    10. http://www.kedem.ru/enoteka/200090619-medovuha/ Medovukha
    11. http://www.rustrana.ru/article.php?nid=3006 Russian fist fighting
    12. http://otlichnik.tripod.com/medmace3.html Medieval flanged maces
    13. https://web.archive.org/web/20041031003752/http://www.adigeya.com/History/ItemTree.asp?id=21 The culture and customs of Adygs
    14. Web site: Russian Folk Instruments. www.barynya.com. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20100921174718/http://barynya.com/russian_folk.stm. 21 September 2010.
    15. Кирпичников А. Н., «Древнерусское оружие», 1971 / Kirpichnikov A.N. The Ancient Russian weapons, 1971.
    16. http://bibliotekar.ru/rusNovgorod/86.htm The study of the history of ancient ploughs of the Novgorod land
    17. http://www.sras.org/pelmeni_history Pelmeni. A Tasty History
    18. http://www.rusarch.ru/zagraevsky1.htm The shapes of domes of ancient Russian churches
    19. http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=11394 No Wrong Way to Swing Bat
    20. http://www.oval.ru/enc/27444.html Zvonnitsa
    21. http://hramy.ru/rare/podzvon.htm Churches Under Bells
    22. https://archive.today/20120727001629/http://www.aerotranslate.com/russian-culture/what-is-a-traditional-russian-sarafan.html What Is a Traditional Russian Sarafan?
    23. http://www.linorusso.ru/article.php?parent_id=8 Russian sarafan
    24. Кирпичников А. Н., «Военное дело на Руси в XIII—XV вв.» Л., 1976 / Kirpichnikov A.N. Warfare in Russia in the 13th-15th centuries. Leningrad, 1976.
    25. Киреева Е. В. «История костюма. Европейский костюм от античности до XX века.» Москва. Просвещение. 1976 / Kireeva E. V. The history of costume. European costume from Antiquity into the 20th century. Moscow, Prosvescheniye, 1976.
    26. V.F.Shperk, "The History of Fortification" (В. Ф. Шперк, История фортификации) (1957)
    27. http://www.kulinarnie-recepty.ru/uha/ Ukha
    28. Web site: Русская печь XX века. https://web.archive.org/web/20090508213816/http://n-t.ru/nj/nz/1988/0107.htm. dead. 8 May 2009. n-t.ru.
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