Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre

Plans for creating a national computing center in the USSR began in December 1951, when the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences approved a resolution to establish such an institute. By August 1954, the USSR Council of Ministers officially confirmed its construction, and in early 1955, the Presidium received a progress report from scientists including S. A. Lebedev and M. A. Lavrentyev. The construction of the Computing Centre building was completed by mid-1955. Key figures involved in its foundation were Academicians I. M. Vinogradov, S. A. Lebedev, and A. A. Dorodnitsyn. The centre began functioning in February 1955, with its initial staff coming mainly from the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Steklov Mathematical Institute and the Institute for Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering (ITMiVT). A proposed alternate name was "Institute of Cybernetics", which was later adopted by a different institution in Kyiv. Since 1992 the centre operated under the Russian Academy of Sciences. == Purpose ==

• Conduct research in mathematical problem-solving using computers • Carry out large-scale scientific calculations for other Academy institutions • Develop and test new computer technologies • Manage planning and development of mathematical tables in the USSR == Research ==

The Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre focused on developing mathematical algorithms and computer software for scientific and industrial applications. • Computational fluid dynamics • Mathematical physics • Climate modeling and Ecological simulation • Solid mechanics and Elastic-plastic analysis • Pattern recognition and image processing • Computer-aided design • Optimization and operations research • Analytical mechanics and Stability theory • Rigid body dynamics and Astrodynamics • Decision support systems and Interactive optimization • Parallel computing • Artificial intelligence • Economic Modelling • Software engineering The video game Tetris was created at the Computing Centre in 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov. == Scientists ==

• Andrey Ershov • Andrey Markov Jr. • Nikita Moiseyev • Valentin Vital'yevich Rumyantsev • Yuri Zhuravlyov • Leonid Khachiyan • Vladimir Alexandrov == References ==