"Sergey Lebedev moved to Moscow in 1950 to lead electronic-computer work at IPMaCE and developed BESM there in the early 1950s."
Moscow also had a serious early computing school, including Lebedev's BESM work at the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering. + Russian Virtual Computer Museum feature associated with the 2002 centenary of Sergey Lebedev.
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