Strela-1, the First Soviet Computer: Political Success and Technological Failure

Networks in the Russian Market Economy

“…(Klimenko 1999: 19). For a recent detailed account of the development of Strela, see Ichikawa (2006). 8.…”

The history of information technology

“…The other (Malinovsky & Fitzpatrick, 2006) is an edited translation of historical and autobiographical work by Boris N. Malinovsky, whose career ran from a junior role on the very first Soviet computer project, through designing important minicomputers in the 1960s for industrial control and scientific applications, to work on early personal computers in the 1970s and 1980s. Soviet computing has also been explored in a number of articles, generally focused on specific early projects, such as Ichikawa's (2006) and Crowe and Goodman's (1994).…”

“Lions – Marchuk”: The Soviet-French Cooperation in Computing

“…4 Within the Soviet Union the situation in the field of computing was rather complicated: a great deal of secrecy and contention split Soviet computing between the military and academia. [7,12] The military benefited from a better material supply; meanwhile academia counter-balanced its scare resources with a relative openness. In October 1955, the existence of Soviet computers was revealed to the world at the now famous Darmstadt Conference, prior to being officially declassified for the Soviet Union's own citizens.…”

“…Academicians Sobolev and Lavrentiev are known for their personal involvement with the early development of Soviet computing; unsurprisingly, they launched an initiative for the creation of a special CC in Akademgorodok. 7 Lavrentiev personally invited a young applied mathematician, Guriy Marchuk, to direct it. In 1964, the CC became independent from Sobolev's Institute of Mathematics and existed until the troubled times of nineties, when it was divided into several institutes.…”