The All Union Scientific Research Institute for Applied Automated Systems (VNIIPAS/ВНИИПАС) was a

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that provided a

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service, including international digital connections. It was the central node of inner USSR scientific data network called

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. VNIIPAS derived from 1976-established VNIISI/ВНИИСИ which was a partner project of

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(IIASA).

History

The IIASA at

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, Austria was created in 1972 as a joint USSR-USA effort to establish global scientific communications through the

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. VNIIPAS operated from 1982 until 1995. In 1983 VNIIPAS, Joel Schatz, Don Carlson, Michael Kleeman, Chet Watson, and

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created the joint telecommunication venture ''San Francisco — Moscow Teleport'' (SFMT), later known as '' Sovam Teleport'' ("Soviet-American teleport") that operated digital connections between USSR and USA and later became the

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provider for the Soviet banking system.

References

Books

The Status of Soviet Civil Science: Proceedings of the Symposium on Soviet Scientific Research, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, September 24–26, 1986
* * {{cite journal , last1= Goodman , first1= Seymour , last2= McHenry , first2= William , last3= Wolcott , first3= Peter , date= 1989 , title= Scientific Computing in the Soviet Union , url= https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.4822814 , url-status= , journal= Computers in Physics , volume= 3, issue= , page= 39 , doi= 10.1063/1.4822814 , archive-url= , archive-date= , access-date= 10 April 2021
Russia Telecom Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information, Regulations, Contacts
2008
Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-communist Nations
2000 Internet in Russia