Bashir Rameev

Bashir Iskandarovich Rameev (May 1, 1918 to May 16, 1994) was a Soviet engineer and inventor regarded as one of the founders of Soviet computing. In 1948, together with Isaak Bruk, he filed the first Soviet patent registered for an electronic computer, and he went on to design Strela, the first Soviet computer put into serial production, seven of which were built beginning in 1954; a Strela machine was used to calculate the orbital trajectory for Sputnik, work for which Rameev and his team received the Stalin Prize. Between 1956 and 1969 he designed and oversaw manufacture of fourteen further computers, chiefly the multipurpose Ural series, incorporating stored programs, binary code and semiconductor diode circuits that paralleled von Neumann architecture principles developed independently.