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Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev published his periodic table in 1869 one year before his German counterpart

Cataract surgery was practised by the Indian physician Sushruta (3rd century CE)

The AK-47 was developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov

The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, in India, had a flush toilet in almost every house as early as 2500 BCE

Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957

The world's first successful intercontinental ballistic missile was developed by Russian Sergey Korolev between 1953–1957

Diamonds are thought to have been first recognized and mined in India

To date, orbital space tourism has been performed only by the Russian Space Agency

Sambo originated in the Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s

The first modern production process for dried milk was invented by the Russian doctor Osip Krichevsky in 1802

The oldest yacht club in the world, by date of establishment, is the Neva Yacht Club, founded by the Russian Tsar Peter the Great

Rulers made from Ivory were in use by the Indus Valley Civilization in Western India prior to 1500 BCE.

The origin of Chintz is from the printed all cotton fabric of calico in India

Russian Mountains were winter sled rides held on specially constructed hills of ice, sometimes up to 200 feet tall, being the first type of roller coaster.

Plastic surgery was being carried out in India as early as 2000 BCE

Microwave Communication: The first public demonstration of microwave transmission was made by Jagadish Chandra Bose, in Calcutta, in 1895

Tetris is a tile-matching video game created by Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984

The first artificial heart was made by the Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov in 1937. It was implanted in a dog.

Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, is widely recognised as the 'Father of Fibre Optics' for his pioneering work in fibre optics technology

Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky was a Russian botanist, the discoverer of viruses (1892) and one of the founders of virology.