Andrey Kolmogorov was the Soviet king of mathematics - he reigned everything, which had numbers in it.

Emil Lenz was among those geniuses, whose playground lied in several scientific fields. What we would have done without Lenz's law, I wonder?

Sergey Chetverikov was an eminent Russian biologist, who found that genetics and evolution were closely related.

Ivan Sechenov was the one who found how reflexes affect human behaviour and mental life.

Eminent Russian physicist, Alexander Stoletov, shed light on photoeffect and magnetic properties of iron.

Her life is a story of seemingly impossible dreams coming true.

Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin is a world famous Russian biologist, who dedicated his life to fighting human enemies.

Zeldovich Yakov Borisovich, famous Soviet physicist and astrophysicist, made an enormous contribution to explanation of the surrounding world.

Mstislav Keldysh is a world famous mathematician and physicist of Russian origin, father of space flights.

Kibalchich Nikolai Ivanovich, a famous Russian inventor and father of first Russian jet engine and flying vehicle and a revolutionary, did his best to make the world better.

George Gamow is a world famous American physicist of Russian Empire origin, who was the first to talk about big bang and mucleotide triplets.

Yuri Lisyansky, world-famous Russian voyager, was the first three times in his life: he was the first Russian to complete round-the-world sea voyage; he discovered an island in the Pacific and found the way from Russian America to Kronstadt

Ivan Petrovich Kulibin is a famous Russian self-taught engineer and inventor, whose name became common for all technically gifted persons.

Sergey Vasilievich Lebedev, world famous Russian chemist, was born in the city of Lublin in Poland in 1874. Twenty-one years later, in 1895, future scientist finished Warsaw Gymnasium and enters physical and mathematical faculty of Saint Petersburg University in autumn of the same year.

Total of Euler’s works boggles imagination – over 800 published works amount to 30 000 printed pages and consist of 600 articles for Saint-Petersburg’s Academy of Sciences, 130 articles published in Berlin, 30 articles for various European journals, 15 memoir volumes and 40 other books – all this will come off the press as 72 volumes of Euler’s scientific heritage (Opera omnia).

Leonard Euler is a genial Swiss-born mathematician and founder of Russian school of mathematics. Tireless scientist writes about 30 000 pages, touching nearly every natural science.

Pavel Yablochkov, Russian electric engineer, inventor and entrepreneur, is the giant on whose "arcing" shoulders stands Thomas Edison with his incandescent lamps.

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko is a well-known Russian “scientist”, “biologist” and “agronomist”, academician of Russian Academy of Sciences and winner of numerous national prizes, who nearly killed genetics

Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov, world famous Russian botanist, plant-breeder, geneticist, geographer and science organizer, is killed for bringing knowledge to mankind

Koltsov, Nikolay Konstantinovich, Russian biologist and author of matrix synthesis of “hereditary molecules”, is born in Moscow. His father is employed in a large fur company as an accountant.