Ivan Fyodorov (printer)
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Ivan Fedorov (Fyodorov) (Ива́н Фёдоров) was the father of Russian (and Ukrainian) printing. He was also a master cannon maker and the inventor of a multibarreled mortar.
Together with Pyotr Mstislavets, he printed the first dated Russian book, Apostol, on March 1, 1564 in Moscow. Later, he worked in Belarus and the Ukraine. In 1580-81 he printed the first complete Slavic Bible. It is known as Ostrog Bible (Russian: Ostrozhskaya Bibliya), because it was printed on the premises of the estate of Kniaz Konstantin Ostrozhsky in Ostrog. He died in Lvov on December 14, 1583 and is buried there.
