Alexander Garsoev (Garsoyan)
First designer of Soviet submarines Alexander Garsoev (Garsoyan) is one of the rare scientists in history who practiced in the offshore waters of military operations. However, underwater activity in any case was risky, even in peacetime – the overwhelming majority of the first submariners died during the experiments. Alexander Garsoev (1882-1934) was born in Tblisi […]
Hovhannes (Ivan) Adamian
Hovhannes (Ivan) Abgari Adamian (5 February 1879 – 12 September 1932) was an Armenian engineer, an author of more than 20 inventions. The first experimental color television was shown in London in 1928 based on Adamian’s tricolor principle, and he is recognized as one of the founders of color television. Patents Biography He designed systems […]
Ruben Orbeli
Founder of Soviet underwater archeology Ruben Orbeli was a Soviet archeologist, historian and jurist, who was renowned as the founder of Soviet underwater archeology. He was the elder brother of Joseph and Leon Orbeli, and Rusadan Orbeli’s father. Born into a medieval noble family in Nakhchivan, Russian Empire in 1880. Ruben Orbeli completed his secondary education at a classical gymnasium in Tiflis. Some time later he went to […]
Agrippina Vaganova
Inventor of the Vaganova method Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was a Soviet and Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method – the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School (today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet) under the Premier Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and […]
