Sulim, Mikhail Kirillovich

Born into a peasant family. From 1929 he lived in Kiev .

In 1939 , after completing seven classes of secondary school, he continued his studies at the 12th Kiev Artillery School. During the Great Patriotic War in 1941, together with the school was evacuated in the city of Ilek, Chkalov region . In 1942 , he graduated from 10 classes of this school and continued his studies at the 2nd Kiev Artillery School, which he graduated in January 1943 and was sent to the Voronezh Front .

From January 1943 to July 1944 , he took part in the battles as the intelligence chief of the division of the Army Artillery Regiment. For participation in the battles of Kursk was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree. From July 1944 to August 1946 he was in the ranks of the Soviet Army in various command positions.

After demobilization in 1946 , he entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute , graduating with honors in 1951. In early 1952 , he was sent to Moscow , SKB-245, where the work on the creation of the first electronic computing equipment was developed. He worked in the SKB-245 as an engineer, senior engineer, since 1956 - Head of Department. In 1958, the department, together with ITM and TU, completed the development of the M-20 computer. Together with M. G. Shura-Bura , Sulim was appointed deputy chief designer of this computer (chief designer is academician Sergei Alekseevich Lebedev ).

In 1959 , when organizing the State Committee for Radio Electronics (GKRE), he was appointed Chief Engineer - Deputy Head of the 8th Main Directorate, coordinating the development of computer equipment in the economic councils of the country, since 1960 - Head of the 8th Main Directorate.

In 1965 , he held the position of head of the 8th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Radio Industry, established on the basis of GKRE, and a year later - Deputy Minister. He was engaged in the development and production of computer equipment (special and general purposes) and the creation on their basis of automated control systems (mainly special purposes).

The most important result of activity during this period was the development, coordination and approval by the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of resolutions on the further development of computer technology in the USSR. This resolution, issued at the end of 1967 , provided for the creation of a number of compatible computers, with a capacity from 20 to 2,000 operations per second. For the production of these computers, their components and components, it was planned to expand and build more than 30 factories in three ministries. To guide the creation of this series of third-generation machines, the resolution provided for the organization in Moscow of a research center of electronic computing technology.

In the second half of 1969, under the protection of a technical project of the EU computer together with B. I. Rameyev, he proposed to change the line for compatibility of the EU computer with the IBM / 360 system, agreed in the USSR and in the countries of the socialist commonwealth, (ICL System 4 the turn was a clone of IBM / 360 ^[1] ). The offer was rejected.

In March 1971, left the post of deputy minister and was appointed director - supervisor of "NIISchetmash." According to the program of creating an EU computer, NIISchetmash developed peripheral and terminal systems.

In 1973 , he defended his thesis, which was recognized as a doctoral thesis, and in 1974 , he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences .

In 1991 he retired.

He was awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War of the first degree ( 1943 and 1985 ), the Order of Lenin ( 1966 ), the Order of the October Revolution ( 1976 ), and six medals.

In 1983 , for work on the creation of an EU computer received the State Prize of the USSR .

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• Mikhail Kirillovich Sulim (Rus.)
• The Godfather of the computer industry (Rus.)