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Name: Computer Center 
(Vychislitel 'nyy tsentr--VIs) 
Address: Moscow, Akademicheskiy Proyezd, 28 
Director: A. A. Dorodnitsyn, Doctor (1961) 
Deputy Director: V. A. Ditkin, Doctor (1959) 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: 
E. A. Chistova 
P. I. Chushkin 
B. M. Drozdov, Head of Computing Laboratory 
L. N. Gerlakh 
V. M. Kurochkin 
V. V. Rusanov 
Yu. D. Shmyglevskiy 
V. P. Smiryagin, Head of Computer Operations Laboratory 
A. P. Yershov, Head of Theoretical Programming Laboratory 
Description: 
The Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., was 
founded in 1955 to engage in research and development in computers and to 
provide computer service for research institutes and industry. About 
95 per cent of the machine hours at the Center are devoted to scientific 
and technical work; in the course of a year, about 100 different institutes 
put problems on the machines. The staff in 1960 numbered approximately 300. 
The computers at the Center include STRELA, URAL-I, BESM-I, and BESM-II. 
The Center does a large amount of computation in support to 
research in aerodynamics, particularly boundary-layer, aerodynamic-flow, 
and shock-wave studies. During the IGY, much of the computing required 
by the Soviet astronomical and geodetic programs was done at the Center. 
Trudy and Sborniki, published by the Center on an irregular 
basis, report research by the staff. 
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Name: Computer Center 
(Vychislitel'nyy tsentr) 
Address: Tashkent 
Director: V. K. Kabylov, Corresponding Academician (Uzbek S.S.R.) (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
