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Inventors from the Russian Empire

  • Pafnuty ChebyshevPafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev was born in the village of Okatovo, located within the district of Borovsk and the province of Kaluga.
  • Mikhail LomonosovIn 1730, a nineteen-year-old fisherman named Mikhail Lomonosov walked one hundred miles from his village of Mishaninskaya to the city of Moscow.
  • Pavel FlorenskyPavel Alexandrovich Florensky was born on the 19th of January 1882 in the town of Yevlakh within the Elisabethpol Governorate.