[2] Rameev's inventions paved the way for the development of a new field in Soviet science—electronic computing—and for the formation of a new branch of industry that supported it.

[4] Of particular note is Rameev's invention of diode-matrix control circuits, which were used to build his first brainchild, the first serially manufactured Soviet mainframe "Strela" (1954).

As a result, he faced coarse, overt and systematic discrimination, which began with university expulsion and job rejections and lasted until the breakout of World War II.

[11] Despite his impeccable record of service in the Soviet Army during World War II, Rameev encountered the same unfounded discrimination when he returned from the front.

[12] It is then, at the age of 29, that Rameev realized that he had to do something extraordinary good for his country to prove that he and his family were not "the enemies of the people".