Yerevan Mergelyan Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines
Soviet-era computing institute whose nineteen-sixties machines were patented across four countries.
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This guide to the Yerevan Mergelyan Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines opens with an odd fact about the building itself: in 2003 this entire block quietly changed owners, not through sale or seizure. It traces the story back to 1956, when a twenty-eight-year-old mathematician named Sergey Mergelyan persuaded the Soviet government to build a computing institute here, and the Nairi machines it went on to produce and patent as far away as England, Japan, France and Italy. Notice how little of that history the concrete and glass in front of you now reveal.
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