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Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects
The Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects, officially the Foundation for Advanced Research, is a Russian state agency funding high-risk defense research, created in 2012 as Russia's DARPA counterpart.
Russian frigate Admiral Makarov
Admiral Makarov (Адмирал Макаров) is a Project 11356R guided-missile frigate of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, commissioned in 2017, known for Kalibr cruise missiles and repeated Ukrainian attacks on her.
Russian Helicopters (Вертолёты России)
Russian Helicopters (Вертолёты России), also JSC Russian Helicopters, is a Russian helicopter manufacturer founded in 2007 and headquartered in Moscow, part of Rostec; it makes the Mi-8/17 and Mi-26T.
Russian Knights
The Russian Knights (Russkiye Vityazi) are the aerobatic display team of the Russian Air Force, founded in 1991 and based at Kubinka Air Base near Moscow.
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, also known as RMRS, is Russia's national classification society under the Ministry of Transport, founded in 1913, which surveys ships and assigns class notations.
Russian Naval Aviation
Russian Naval Aviation (Авиация военно-морского флота России) is the air arm of the Russian Navy, serving the Northern, Pacific, Baltic, and Black Sea Fleets from its origins in 1910.
Russian Orbital Segment
The Russian Orbital Segment, also called the Russian Segment, is the portion of the International Space Station operated by Russia's Roscosmos, begun with the Zarya module in 1998.
Russian passport
The Russian passport exists in two forms: an internal booklet, the citizen's main identity document since Soviet times, and a separate international passport used for travel abroad.
Russian presidential aircraft
The Russian presidential aircraft, also known as the Putin plane, center on the Ilyushin Il-96-300PU, a protected command aircraft nicknamed the "Flying Kremlin" that has served Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian Railways (Российские железные дороги)
Russian Railways (Российские железные дороги, RZD) is Russia's state-owned railway company, created in 2003; it owns the national network and runs freight and passenger trains.
Russian submarine Kursk
The Russian submarine Kursk (Курск, K-141) was a nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine that sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000 during a fleet exercise, killing all 118 aboard.
Russian uranium import ban
The Russian uranium import ban is a US law banning imports of Russian low-enriched uranium, signed by President Biden in May 2024 and running through 2040.
Russian–American Telegraph
The Russian–American Telegraph, also called the Collins Overland Telegraph, was a Western Union project from 1865 to 1867 to link North America and Europe by telegraph through Alaska and Siberia.
Russkinskoye field
The Russkinskoye field (Русскинское месторождение) is a large oil field about 124 km north of Surgut in Western Siberia, discovered in 1982 and operated by Surgutneftegas through its Komsomolskneft division.
Russkoye field
The Russkoye field (Русское месторождение) is a giant high-viscosity oil field on the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic, discovered in 1968 and developed by Rosneft subsidiary Tyumenneftegaz.
RussNeft
RussNeft (РуссНефть) is a Russian vertically integrated oil company founded in Moscow in September 2002 by Mikhail Gutseriev, ranked among Russia's top 10 oil and gas companies by production.
Russo-Turkish ironclad Livadia
Livadia (Ливадия) was an imperial steam yacht built on the Clyde in Glasgow in 1880 for Tsar Alexander II, designed by Admiral Popov with a broad turbot-shaped hull for stability.
Rust (programming language)
Rust is a systems programming language that enforces memory safety at compile time through ownership, without a garbage collector, and is used in production by Microsoft, Google, and AWS.
rustc
rustc is the official compiler for the Rust programming language, translating Rust source code into executable binaries through borrow checking and code generation, and distributed alongside Cargo.
Rustem F. Ismagilov
Rustem F. Ismagilov is a Russian-born chemist and bioengineer at Caltech, known for pioneering droplet-based microfluidics and the SlipChip device for rapid diagnostics and studying the human microbiome.
Rüstem Pasha Mosque
The Rüstem Pasha Mosque (Rüstem Paşa Camii) is an Ottoman mosque in Istanbul built by Mimar Sinan for Rüstem Pasha, grand vizier of Süleyman the Magnificent.
Ruston & Hornsby
Ruston & Hornsby was a British industrial engineering firm formed in 1918 at Lincoln, a leading maker of oil engines, diesel engines, and small diesel shunting locomotives.
Ruston-Bucyrus
Ruston-Bucyrus was a British manufacturer of excavators, cranes, and drilling equipment based in Lincoln, England, formed in 1930 as a joint venture between American Bucyrus and Ruston and Hornsby.
RuStore
RuStore is the official Russian mobile app store for Android, HarmonyOS, and Aurora OS, developed by VK and launched in May 2022 after sanctions limited Russian payment apps.
Rustum Roy
Rustum Roy (1924–2010) was an India-born American materials scientist at Pennsylvania State University, known for the sol-gel process, hydrothermal synthesis, and microwave processing of metals.
Ruta 27 (Costa Rica)
Ruta 27, known as the Carretera San José–Caldera, is a toll highway in Costa Rica linking San José with the Pacific port of Caldera, inaugurated in 2010.
Ruta Nacional 45A
Ruta Nacional 45A, known as the Troncal Central, is a Colombian national highway running from Zipaquirá in Cundinamarca to San Alberto in Cesar, crossing five departments.
Rutan Long-EZ
The Rutan Long-EZ, also known as the Long-EZ, is a tandem two-seat canard pusher homebuilt aircraft designed by Burt Rutan and sold in plans form from 1980.
Rutan VariEze
The Rutan VariEze is a two-seat homebuilt sportplane with a canard foreplane, pusher propeller, and moldless fiberglass-over-foam construction, designed by Burt Rutan and sold as plans from 1976.
Rutan Voyager
The Rutan Voyager, formally the Rutan Model 76 Voyager, is the experimental aircraft that completed the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986.