A history of computing technology
A history of computing technology
A Historical Overview of Computer Architecture
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing
John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing
The High-Speed Electronic Calculating Machine of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
The Soviet Bloc's Unified System of Computers
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
The origins of digital computing in Europe
Communications of the ACM - Why CS students need math
MESM and the Beginning of the Computer Era in the Soviet Union
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Strela-1, the First Soviet Computer: Political Success and Technological Failure
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
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In this article, we study the life and work of Sergei Alekseevich Lebedev, one of the world's pioneers in digital computing. Lebedev, working in Kiev, built the MESM, the first Soviet electronic digital stored-program computer (1947-1951). In 1950, Lebedev moved to Moscow, where he soon became the director of the newly established Institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Technology. There he developed a long line of digital computers based on his work on the MESM. We examine in detail the first three of these machines; the BESM, the BESM-2, and the M-20. Lebedev achieved considerable success not only in the development of indigenous Soviet computers, but in the training of engineers, the founding of computer centers, and the establishment and nurturing of Soviet computing as a scientific discipline.