The Main Computer Center of the USSR State Planning Committee (MCC of Gosplan)

As a result of the publications and initiatives of a number of Soviet progressive scientists, in October 1959 the USSR Council of Ministers issued a decree on the creation of a Computer center of the USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan of the USSR) for providing calculations of the economy and planning. This Computer center (since 1963 - Main Computing Center of Gosplan of the USSR) had existed for over 30 years, until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It was the largest civil computer center in the USSR with the advanced powerful computers (for its time) to solve a variety of planning and economic management tasks. More than 1200 specialists worked in it.