[1] The first resolution of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the creation of a Computing Center was adopted on December 3, 1951.

On January 14, 1955, the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences discussed the report of S. A. Lebedev and the co-report of the Chairman of the Commission of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician M. A. Lavrentyev, on the progress of implementing this resolution.

By this time, ITMiVT had carried out work on preparing mathematical personnel for the computer center being created.

The personnel basis for the creation of the Computing Center was the department of applied mathematics of the Steklov Mathematical Institute (since 1951, the head of the sector of this department was also Dorodnitsyn) and a number of employees of ITMiVT.

Its areas of research include: The game Tetris was created by Alexey Pajitnov at the Computing Centre.