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The name of this inventor and engineer is associated with the appearance of the first Russian car, firefighting vehicle, trolleybus and omnibus. But what is especially surprising is that then, back in 1900, he demonstrated a super-fashionable vehicle even by today’s standards.

All of St. Petersburg knew the story of the escape from prison of the anarchist theorist Pyotr Kropotkin. People were telling it again and again as an action-packed novel, adding to the story and thinking out the details. One of the participants of the adventure was young Evgraf Fedorov, the man, whose scientific accomplishments in the field of crystallography today are compared with the periodic system of Mendeleyev.

Russian metallurgical companies invest in their modernization on average 200 billion rubles annually. How could a scientist in the 19th century manage to successfully introduce foreign innovations into the industry with a minimum budget?

Exports of Russian coal to Asia-Pacific region will increase 2.5 times: from 100 million tons in 2018 to 252 million tons in 2035. This forecast was recently given by the head of the Ministry of Energy Alexander Novak. However, the growth of production is unthinkable without constant work to improve safety in the quarries and mines.

By experts’ estimates, up to 35% of the total volume of oil is produced in the sea. And although the first project for the construction of oil platforms was proposed by a colleague of Robert Nobel back in 1896, the document merely lay on the shelf for more than 50 years.

What can be common between the Soviet scientist who founded the whole paleontological science of tafonomy and the legendary director George Lucas? Why do some critics accuse the American of plagiarism?

Rock salt deposits in the Bakhmut basin, huge reserves of coal in the Donetsk basin, the presence of a serious iron ore deposit in the center of European Russia. What helped the Russian scientist to foresee these and many other geological finds in Russia?

In 1912, an unexpected find was handed over to paleontologist Anatoly Ryabinin: a fossil bone that supposedly belonged to a dinosaur. This caused an ample resonance: no remains of the vertebrates of the Mesozoic era had ever been be found on the territory of Russia before the 20th century.

Vladimir Obruchev wrote his famous novel at the age of 61. Vladimir Vysotsky, Marina Vlady, Oleg Dal, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky fought for the right to shoot in its film adaptation, and only in the first year after release, more than 41 million people watched the film. The most amazing thing is that the author of the book was first of all not a fiction writer, but a world-famous geologist!

Geologist Larisa Popugayeva was not even 30 years old when she discovered the first kimberlite pipe in the USSR. This event gave rise to industrial diamond mining in the country, but the discoverer was stigmatized.