The M-2 () was a computer developed at the Laboratory of Electrical Systems in the Institute of Energy of the
USSR Academy of Sciences
The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...
. The successor to the
M-1, it was developed in 1952 by a team of engineers led by I.S. Brook (or Bruk).
The computer was developed and assembled in the period between April and December 1952. In 1953 M-2 became fully operational and was used for solving applied problems on round-the-clock basis, mostly having to do with
nuclear fission and rocket design.
M-2 was the basis for several other Soviet computers, some of them developed at other research institutes.
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