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 the Category:Russian computer scientists and Category:Russian programmers.

A

Georgy Adelson-Velsky, inventor of AVL tree algorithm, developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)

B

Boris Babaian, developer of the Elbrus-series supercomputers

Sergey Brin, inventor of the Google web search engine

Nikolay Brusentsov, inventor of ternary computer (Setun)

D

Mikhail Donskoy, a leading developer of Kaissa, the first computer chess champion

Kaspersky

E

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

G

Victor Glushkov, a founder of cybernetics, inventor of the first personal computer Mir

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

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

Korsakov

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)

M

Alexander Mikhailov, coined the term Informatics

O

Odhner

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

P

Alexey Pajitnov, inventor of Tetris

Svyatoslav Pestov, developer of jEdit text editor and Factor programming language

Bashir Rameyev, developer of Strela computer, the first mainframe computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union

R

Eugene Roshal, developer of the FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file archiver

Pajitnov

T

Valentin Turchin, inventor of Refal programming language, introduced metasystem transition and supercompilation

Y

David Yang, developer of Cybiko, founder of ABBYY company

(source:wikipedia)