After Berg's father died, the family moved to Saint Petersburg and Aksel was matriculated to navy school.

In preparing Zmeya for combat operations he suffered an injury that, left untreated, seriously weakened his health; following his return to port Berg was restricted to onshore duty.

Berg completed his education at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University, then at the electrical engineering department of the Naval Academy, which he graduated with honors in 1925.

Although all charges carried the death penalty, Berg supervised the development of military communications systems while imprisoned in a sharashka, one of the "special design bureaus" of the NKVD.

When Stalin became interested in developing radar Berg was immediately appointed as minister of electronic technology of the USSR.

[3] Molotov´s device enabled her to play a key role in the air defense of Sevastopol in the first stages of Operation Barbarossa.

In 1953, the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics was opened as part of the Academy' Berg became its first director, holding this post until 1955.

1, established in 1954 by Berg's friend Anatoly Kitov as part of the Ministry of Defense, into one of the largest computer centers in the world.

His main interests were radiolocation, microelectronics and cybernetics (i.e. computer science and radio-frequency engineering); he also made a significant contribution to the development of bionics, structural linguistics, and artificial intelligence in the USSR.

In February 1959, Berg headed the government commission to consider proposals from Kitov to the Nikita Khrushchev on the creation of a Unified State Network of Computer Centers (EGSVC, the prototype of the Internet) in the country to manage the national economy.