[citation needed] While serving in the Red Army, his exceptional abilities caught the attention of Kliment Voroshilov, who ordered him to enlist in the High Artillery School in Leningrad.

In August 1945, Kitov gained admission to the rocket armaments department of the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy, a prestigious military university in the USSR.

His project proposal was later presented to Joseph Stalin, the Red Army supreme commander and General Secretary of the Communist Party.

[citation needed] Kitov also contributed to the efforts of Sergei Korolev's task force, which was engaged in the development of the Soviet R-1 missile.

[citation needed] Kitov was the first user of the first Soviet serial computer "Strela" within the Military Ministry of the USSR.

By the mid-1950s, Kitov developed his main principles of computer-based automated military-control and management systems for defence purposes.

Dzerzhisky Artillery Academy, and periodical collections of works at the USSR Ministry of Defence, and other "special" (classified) sources.

[citation needed] In Computer Center Number 1 at the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, Kitov came up with many of the ideas of modern military informatics used today.[which?

From 1951 to 1952, Kitov read the book Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener in English.

Kitov invited the mathematicians Sergei Sobolev and Alexey Lyapunov to become co-authors of his article "The Main Features of Cybernetics".

From 1955 to 1961, the scientific works of Kitov played a significant role in the recognition of cybernetics as a science and in its development in the USSR and other socialist countries.

Large sections of the book were dedicated to usage of computers in economic planning, automation of production processes, and solving other intellectual problems.

The main point was that this AMS should be based on a national network of regional computer centres (project "Red Book").

Kitov is famous in the former Soviet Union for being the first cyberneticist in the world[citation needed] to suggest a global integrated computer network for automated management of both the USSR's national economy and the armed forces.

Kirov proposed that the technological structure of that system would be a global, double purpose, computer network, covering the whole of the USSR's territory, anticipating OGAS and the Internet.

Kitov proposed to concentrate the centre's initial basic efforts not on direct increases in performance, but on the development of methods, algorithms, and programs which permitted extending processing, storage, and retrieval semantic information.

For a long time, ALGEM was a "workhorse" for Soviet programmers[citation needed] working with non-arithmetical applications of computers.

[citation needed] In the 1970s, while working as the chief designer of the AMS 'Healthcare', Kitov developed an algorithmic programming language known as NORMIN, which was widely used in the USSR for medical diagnostics.

The interface realised, among others, a dialogue mode called "human-computer" in the normalised natural language NORMIN, and served as a testbed for usability testing techniques.

[citation needed] In his 1 July 1959 letter to Khrushchev, Kitov insisted that the introduction of automated systems in the country should be conducted under the supervision of state administrators at high levels – such as the members of the Soviet Politburo.

Kitov proposed that all work in the field of computing research and automated management systems be subjected to a single state body which would be granted a monopoly to coordinate, control, and implement all developments and achievements of that branch.

Within the health care field he established scientific schools of thought, educated a number of talented followers, and guided many dissertation works.

[citation needed] Kitov made great contributions to the creation of "local" medical AMSes, which functioned within specific enterprises: at hospitals, clinics, and drugstores.

During his tenure from 1951 to 1952 at the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy, Kitov conducted one of the Union's first three courses of lectures on computers and programming.

[citation needed] In 1980, he accepted a position at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, where he worked for seventeen years, as chair of the Computer Programming department.