Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov

Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov was a Soviet and Russian computer scientist, born in 1926 in Podolsk. He took part in the development of the earliest Soviet computers, contributing to the BESM machine of 1953, then considered the first large Russian computer, and produced early machine translation programs in 1956. He later developed control software for Soviet ballistic missile defense systems and led creation of the first operating system for the BESM-6, a batch-processing system later named Dispatcher-68. From 1970 he chaired the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Moscow State University and was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1981.