Opening of a memorial plaque in Feofania dedicated to the creation of the MESM computer

On June 11, 2014, a memorial plaque dedicated to the creation of the first MESM computer in continental Europe was opened in Feofania (Kiev, Ukraine). MESM was created under the leadership of Sergei Alekseevich Lebedev 1948-1951.

All work on MESM creation was carried out in the experimental laboratory of the Institute of Electrical Engineering, located on the territory of Feofania. Now this building belongs to the St.Panteleimon Convent and there is no open access to it.

The memorial plaque reminds that the first electronic computer MESM in continental Europe was created here, in Feofania, under the leadership of Academician Lebedev,. The board installed on the building 32 at Academician Lebedev Street.

This memorial plaque memory of Sergei Alekseevich Lebedev is the author's work of Valery Fedichev - Ukrainian artist.

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A plaque dedicated to the creation of the first computer in continental Europe.
  
President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine B.E.Paton speaking.

Academician Ivan V.Sergienko (left) - Director of the Institute of Cybernetics of V.M.Glushkov of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Academician Filip I.Andon (second from right) - Director of the Institute of Program Systems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  
Valery Fedichev (center, left), academician Alexandr V.Palagin (center right) - Deputy Director of the Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Academician Ivan V.Sergienko (in center) - Director of the Institute of Cybernetics of V.M.Glushkov of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine speaking. Academician Alexandr V.Palagin (center, left) - Deputy Director of the Institute of Cybernetics.
  

60th anniversary of the creation of the first in continental Europe computer "MESM" and
50th anniversary of the creation and start of serial production of the first multipurpose control computer in the USSR "Dnepr"

The enlarged jubilee meeting of the Academic Counsil of Glushkov's Institute of Cybernetics NAS Ukraine "Computer building in Ukraine. Heritage and Present" devoted to 60 years from creation of the first in continental Europe computer "MESM" and 50 years from the beginning of the serial production of the first in the USSR universal control computer "Dnepr" took place on December 15, 2011.

The meeting was opened by director of Glushkov's Institute of Cybernetics NAS Ukraine Academician I.V.Sergienko.



Director of Glushkov's Institute of Cybernetics NAS Ukraine Academician I.V.Sergienko is speaking.


Academician B.N.Malinovsky, chief desiner of the universal control computer "Dnepr"

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