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The Soviet computer industry: a tale of two sectors
Special issue: Soviet computingFor the Soviet economy in general, and the Soviet computing community in particular, the last few years have been a period of unprecedented troubles and changes. The old, stable, centrally planned economic system has proven to be far more brittle than ...
Strela-1, the First Soviet Computer: Political Success and Technological Failure
Which computer was developed first in the Soviet Union? Which one was first successful? Suchquestions are difficult to answer, but recently declassified archival material may hold the key. Thestory of the Strela illustrates how competing interests—as ...
The First Steps of Soviet Computer Science
ENT '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Engineering and TelecommunicationThe report provides new facts about the history of the first computers in the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1952. Four teams from the Academy of Sciences and Industry, almost simultaneously began work on developing of the first computers. The victory was ...
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