MESM and the Beginning of the Computer Era in the Soviet Union
A. Fitzpatrick, Simon Berkovich, T. Kazokova · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2006
The MESM - Malaya Elektronnaya Schetnaya Mashina (small electronic computing machine) - was the first computer built in the USSR. This history of early Soviet computers examines the technical characteristics of the machines and the background of Soviet computer development