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Dossiers (21)

Alexei Lyapunov

Mathematician without a diploma, intellectual father of Soviet cybernetics

Alfred Sarant / Philip Staros

American engineer and Rosenberg-ring spy who fled to the USSR and co-founded Soviet microe

Anatoly Dorodnitsyn

Founding director of the USSR Academy's Computing Centre; aerodynamicist; IFIP president 1

Anatoly Kitov

Military computing pioneer, first to propose a nationwide computer network

Andrei Ershov

Father of Soviet programming; founder of the Novosibirsk school and of school informatics

Bashir Rameev

Self-taught chief designer of the Ural computer family

Boris Malinovsky

Chief designer of the Dnepr control computer; chronicler of Soviet computing

Ekaterina Lavrishcheva

Software-engineering pioneer at Glushkov's Institute of Cybernetics; Yushchenko's student

Ekaterina Shkabara

Lead engineer of the MESM control unit, co-author of the first Soviet programming textbook

Elena Glivenko

Head of the software team for Kartsev's M-4 to M-10 missile-warning computers

Isaak Bruk

Holder of the first Soviet computer patent, creator of the M-series small computers, found

Kateryna Yushchenko

Creator of the Address programming language, first Soviet woman Doctor of Sciences in prog

Leonid Kantorovich

Mathematician who invented linear programming and won the USSR's only economics Nobel Priz

Mikhail Kartsev

Nikolai Brusentsov

Chief designer of Setun, the world's only serially produced ternary computer

Sergei Lebedev

Chief designer of MESM and BESM, father of Soviet computing

Sergei Sobolev

Youngest Soviet academician, atomic bomb mathematician, shield of cybernetics

Tamara Aleksandridi

War radio operator who built the M-1's and M-2's CRT memory; professor at MADI from 1985

Viktor Glushkov

Cybernetics visionary, creator of the OGAS project

Vladimir Melnikov

Vsevolod Burtsev

Machines & systems (22)

Address language

Yushchenko's 1955 programming language with pointer-like indirect addressing

BESM-1

Fastest computer in Europe at its completion (~8,000 ops/s)

BESM-6

Crowning Soviet mainframe of Lebedev's line

ES EVM

'Unified Series' of IBM/360-compatible computers

Elbrus

Soviet supercomputer line, named after the mountain Lebedev once climbed

IBM System/360

American mainframe family chosen as the ES EVM prototype

M-1

Small pioneering computer; first with all-semiconductor logic (730 tubes)

M-13

Fourth-generation multiprocessor for real-time radar processing, up to 2.4 billion ops/s

M-2

Economical fast machine that ran 15 years around the clock

M-4

Transistor real-time computer for an experimental space-surveillance radar

MESM

First stored-program electronic computer in continental Europe

MIR

Kyiv engineering-calculation machines that hardware-interpreted a high-level language

Minsk family

Most-produced Soviet computer family before ES EVM

Nairi family

Yerevan engineering minicomputers with formula input

OGAS

Proposed nationwide computer network for managing the planned economy

Promin

First Soviet mini-computer, testbed of stepped microprogram control

Red Book proposal

Kitov's 200-page dual-use national network project sent to Khrushchev

Setun

World's only series-produced ternary computer (46 to 50 built, depending on the source)

Setun-70

Ternary two-stack successor; remained a single specimen

Strela

First series-produced Soviet computer

Ural series

Most widespread Soviet computers of the early 1960s (183 Ural-1 built)

Uzel

Submarine fire-control system, first digital computer aboard a Soviet submarine

c. 1965-present

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