Top 10 Countries Funding the World Health Organization. During the cold war, Russia didn't just cause panic and disarray, it caused both itself and America to advance greatly in both their space program and their weaponry. 1. Russia's Contribution to The World Russia has contributed much to the world, the most prominent contribution being the cold war. It has given to the world not only great classics and fine arts masterpieces but entire schools. Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein to David Leontyevich Bronstein (1847-1922) and Anna Lvovna (née Zhivotovskaya, 1850-1910) on 7 November 1879, the fifth child of a Ukrainian-Jewish family of wealthy farmers in Yanovka or Yanivka, in the Kherson governorate of the Russian Empire (now Bereslavka, in Ukraine), a small village 24 kilometres (15 mi) from the nearest post office. By … The periodic table of elements as we know it, where the elements are ordered according to their atomic numbers, was first compiled by a Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. RUSSIAN CULTURE. This chart shows assessed contributions to the World Health Organization for 2020 (as of March 31, 2020). 1939: World War II begins, and, in accord with a pact between Stalin and Adolf Hitler, Russian invades Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and … The periodic table of elements. Here are 10 things you didn’t know Russia gave the world. Russian drama school of Stanislavski and ballet school are the world-famous ones. Focusing only on the countries with a total contribution of $100K or more, we changed the sizes and colors of countries on a world map corresponding to their contributions to the WHO, creating an intuitive snapshot of where the organization’s money comes from. The total sum of assessed contributions invoiced by the WHO on January 01 and due for payment this year stood at $ 493.5 million, of which $322.1 million were still outstanding as of March 31. Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of territory, with a total area of 6,601,668 square miles (17,098,242 square kilometers). Make a contribution Subscribe US edition switch to the UK edition ... 15 years of Vladimir Putin: 15 ways he has changed Russia and the world This article is more than 5 years old. I believe, Russia has contributed to the following in the world: - Periodic Table of Contents (1800's) - Many scientific breakthroughs that the world uses today - Anti-gravity - theory for shielding objects from gravity (Russian man ) - Caterpillar Tracks (we use today ) - Electrically-powered Railway Wagons - Videotape Recorder Russia has made a priceless contribution to the world culture.