Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering, USSR Academy of Sciences: The Chinese Vector

Abstract

The relevance of this article is due to the need to specify the content of scientific and technical cooperation between the USSR and the People’s Republic of China in the field of computer technology in the second half of the 1950s. This topic is fragmentarily presented in works on the history of science and technology, although in the recent past, certain attempts to highlight the problem were made by both domestic and Chinese researchers in the broad context of bilateral cooperation. One of the active participants in scientific and technical cooperation with the PRC was the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Memories of the participants of the events can be found on the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering (IPMCE) website [1], which was one source of this paper. The other source was the IPM & CE documents from the RAS Archive and materials on USSR – China cooperation from the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI).