This list of Russian IT developers includes the hardware engineers, computer scientists and programmers from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

See also Category:Russian computer scientists and Category:Russian computer programmers.

Alphabetical list

A

• Georgy Adelson-Velsky, inventor of AVL tree algorithm, developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
• Andrey Andreev, creator of Badoo, one of the world's largest dating sites, and the 10th largest social network in the world
• Vladimir Arlazarov, DBS Ines, developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)

B

• Boris Babayan, developer of the Elbrus-series supercomputers, founder of Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST)
• Alexander Brudno, described the alpha-beta (α-β) search algorithm
• Nikolay Brusentsov, inventor of ternary computer ( Setun)

C

• Andrei Chernov, one of the founders of the Russian Internet and the creator of the KOI8-R character encoding
• Alexey Chervonenkis, developed the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, also known as the "fundamental theory of learning",^{[ citation needed]} a key part of the computational learning theory

D

• Mikhail Donskoy, a leading developer of Kaissa, the first computer chess champion
• Pavel Durov, founded the VKontakte.ru social network, #35 on Alexa's Top 500 Most Visited Global Websites, the 6th largest social network in the world, and Telegram

E

• Andrey Ershov, developed Rapira programming language, started the predecessor to the Russian National Corpus

G

• Vadim Gerasimov, one of the original co-developers of the famous video game Tetris
• Victor Glushkov, a founder of cybernetics, inventor of the first personal computer, MIR

K

• Yevgeny Kaspersky, developer of Kaspersky anti-virus products
• Anatoly Karatsuba, developed the Karatsuba algorithm (the first fast multiplication algorithm)
• Leonid Khachiyan, developed the Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming
• Tigran Khudaverdyan, deputy CEO of Yandex
• Lev Korolyov, co-developed the first Soviet computers
• Semen Korsakov, first to use punched cards for information storage and search
• Alexander Kronrod, developer of Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula and Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion

L

• Evgeny Landis, inventor of AVL tree algorithm
• Sergey Lebedev, developer of the first Soviet and European electronic computers, MESM and BESM
• Vladimir Levenshtein, developed the Levenshtein automaton, Levenshtein coding and Levenshtein distance
• Leonid Levin, IT scientist, developed the Cook-Levin theorem (the foundation for computational complexity)
• Oleg Lupanov, coined the term "Shannon effect"; developed the (k, s)- Lupanov representation of Boolean functions

M

• Yuri Matiyasevich, solved Hilbert's tenth problem
• Alexander Mikhailov, coined the term " informatics"
• Anatoly Morozov, worked on automated control systems, problem-focused complexes, modelling, and situational management

N

• Anton Nossik, godfather of the Russian internet who began Russian online news

P

• Alexey Pajitnov, inventor of Tetris
• Victor Pan, worked in the area of polynomial computations
• Igor Pavlov, creator of the file archiver 7-Zip; creator of the 7z archive format
• Svyatoslav Pestov, developer of jEdit text editor and Factor programming language
• Vladimir Pokhilko, specialized in human-computer interaction
• Yuriy Polyakov, developed an approximate method for nonlinear differential and integrodifferential equations

R

• Bashir Rameyev, developer of Strela computer, the first mainframe computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union
• Alexander Razborov, won the Nevanlinna Prize for introducing the "approximation method" in proving Boolean circuit lower bounds of some essential algorithmic problems, and the Gödel Prize for the paper " Natural Proofs"
• Eugene Roshal, developer of the FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file archiver

S

• Ilya Segalovich, founder and one of the first programmers of Yandex, Russian search engine
• Anatoly Shalyto, initiator of the Foundation for Open Project Documentation; developed Automata-based programming
• Dmitry Sklyarov, computer programmer known for his 2001 arrest by American law enforcement; US v. ElcomSoft Sklyarov
• Alexander Stepanov, created and implemented the C++ Standard Template Library
• Igor Sysoev, creator of nginx, the popular high performance web server, and founder of NGINX, Inc.

T

• Andrey Terekhov (Терехов, Андрей Николаевич), developer of Algol 68 LGU; telecommunication systems
• Andrey Ternovskiy, creator of Chatroulette
• Valentin Turchin, inventor of Refal programming language, introduced metasystem transition and supercompilation

V

• Vladimir Vapnik, developed the theory of the support vector machine; demonstrated its performance on a number of problems of interest to the machine learning community, including handwriting recognition

Y

• Sergey Yablonsky, founder of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics

See also