Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2

The M-2 was a computer developed at the Laboratory of Electrical Systems in the Institute of Energy of the <a href="/facts/USSR_Academy_of_Sciences/mIYjeYue">USSR Academy of Sciences</a>. The successor to the <a href="/facts/Automatic_Digital_Computer_M-1/Xd239qLs">M-1</a>, 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 <a href="/facts/Nuclear_fission/LfkIylvm">nuclear fission</a> and rocket design.
M-2 was the basis for several other[specify] Soviet computers, some of them developed at other research institutes.

<ul><li>Malinovsky, Boris Nikolaevich (2010). <a href="https://archive.org/stream/PioneersOfSovietComputing/Pioneers%20of%20Soviet%20Computing">"Pioneers Of Soviet Computing"</a>. archive.org. Retrieved 2018-05-23.</li></ul>

Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2 open-in-new

Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2