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1.Created The Periodic Table
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Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev published his periodic table in 1869 one year before his German counterpart
2.First to perform Cataract Surgery
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Cataract surgery was practised by the Indian physician Sushruta (3rd century CE)
3.Created the AK-47
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The AK-47 was developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov
4.Created the Flush Toilet
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The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, in India, had a flush toilet in almost every house as early as 2500 BCE
5.Launched the first Artificial Satellite
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Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957
6.Created the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
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The world's first successful intercontinental ballistic missile was developed by Russian Sergey Korolev between 1953–1957
7.Were the first to mine for Diamonds
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Diamonds are thought to have been first recognized and mined in India
8.Had the first Space Tourism program
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To date, orbital space tourism has been performed only by the Russian Space Agency
9.Created Sambo martial art
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Sambo originated in the Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s
10.Created Powdered Milk
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The first modern production process for dried milk was invented by the Russian doctor Osip Krichevsky in 1802
11.Created Yacht Clubs
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The oldest yacht club in the world, by date of establishment, is the Neva Yacht Club, founded by the Russian Tsar Peter the Great
12.Created the modern Ruler
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Rulers made from Ivory were in use by the Indus Valley Civilization in Western India prior to 1500 BCE.
13.Created Chintz Fabric
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The origin of Chintz is from the printed all cotton fabric of calico in India
14.Created the Roller Coaster
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Russian Mountains were winter sled rides held on specially constructed hills of ice, sometimes up to 200 feet tall, being the first type of roller coaster.
15.Were the first to do Plastic Surgery
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Plastic surgery was being carried out in India as early as 2000 BCE
16.Discovered Microwave Communication
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Microwave Communication: The first public demonstration of microwave transmission was made by Jagadish Chandra Bose, in Calcutta, in 1895
17.Created the video game Tetris
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Tetris is a tile-matching video game created by Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984
18.Created the Artificial Heart
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The first artificial heart was made by the Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov in 1937. It was implanted in a dog.
19.Discovered Fibre Optics
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Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, is widely recognised as the 'Father of Fibre Optics' for his pioneering work in fibre optics technology
20.Discovered Viruses
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Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky was a Russian botanist, the discoverer of viruses (1892) and one of the founders of virology.