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Some aspects of the history of the first Soviet computer development are described. The idea of this work was offered by Sergey Lebedev who formulated the principles, wrote a plan and suggested the structure of the computer which was named BESM – Fast Electronic Calculating Machine. Some new documents are presented – a working notebook with Lebedev’s handwritten notes and a plan of a preliminary project draft development. BESM computer became the first in the long series of Soviet computers built under the leadership of Lebedev. It also was used as a prototype of the first Chinese computer built with the help of Soviet engineers.
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Karpova, V.B., Karpov, L.E. (2011). History of the Creation of BESM: The First Computer of S.A. Lebedev Institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Engineering. In: Impagliazzo, J., Proydakov, E. (eds) Perspectives on Soviet and Russian Computing. SoRuCom 2006. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22816-2_2
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