In parallel with the assembly and adjustment of Razdan, in the same research institute, work was underway on the creation of the "Aragats" computer, which has the same architecture.
To assist in the creation of Razdan and Aragats, several employees of the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences were seconded to Yerevan, the head of the group was A. P. Merenkov.
[10] On the basis of this model, in 1967–1977 YerNIIMM developed a system for automating the process of selling railway tickets – the Marshrut-1 complex (chief designer – A.
[11] This complex was used for a long time at several railway stations in Moscow (and later formed the basis of the first generation Express automated control system).
The developers of this system received the State Prize of the Armenian SSR in 1974.