Editing List of Russian people (section)

===Optics and photography pioneers===
*[[Franz Aepinus]], inventor of [[Achromatic lens|achromatic]] [[microscope]][[File:Dmitri Maxutow Leutnant.jpg|thumb|90px|[[D. D. Maksutov|Dmitry Maksutov]]]]
*[[Nikolay Basov]], physicist, co-inventor of [[laser]] and [[maser]], [[Nobel Prize]] winner
*[[Yuri Denisyuk]], inventor of [[3D holography]]
*[[Semyon Kirlian]], inventor of [[Kirlian photography]]
*[[Ivan Kulibin]], polymath inventor, introduced [[candle]] [[searchlight]] and [[searchlight]]-based [[optical telegraph]]
*[[Sergei Lvovich Levitsky|Sergey Levitsky]], inventor of the [[bellows]] camera, one of the earliest photography pioneers
*[[Mikhail Lomonosov]], polymath scientist and artist, inventor of [[off-axis reflecting telescope]] and [[night vision telescope]]
*[[Alexander Alexeyevich Makarov|Alexander Makarov]], inventor of [[orbitrap]]
*[[Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov|Dmitry Maksutov]], inventor of the [[Maksutov telescope]][[File:Sergei-Prokudin-Gorski-Larg.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky]]]]
*[[Boris Mamyrin]], inventor of [[reflectron]]
*[[Alexander Prokhorov]], physicist, co-inventor of [[laser]] and [[maser]], Nobel Prize winner
*[[Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky]], pioneer of [[colour photography]], inventor of colour [[film slides]] and colour [[motion pictures]], famous for his multiple colour photos of [[Russian Empire]]
*[[Yevgeny Zavoisky]], inventor of [[EPR spectroscopy]], co-developer of [[NMR spectroscopy]]