As a follow-up, I highly recommend http://monoskop.org/Computing_and_cybernetics_in_CEE#Episodes http://monoskop.org/Computing_and_cybernetics_in_CEE#Episode...

As a follow-up, I highly recommend http://monoskop.org/Computing_and_cybernetics_in_CEE#Episodes http://monoskop.org/Computing_and_cybernetics_in_CEE#Episode... as a much more detailed account of the history of Soviet hardware and thought about computing, including even the relation to cybernetics.