The First Soviet Scientific Papers on Management Information Systems in the RVCM

The main purpose of the article is to describe a large-scale and so far little-studied layer of the history of Soviet science - the history of the all-Union industry of management information systems (MIS). In the 1960s and 70s in the Soviet Union about seven hundred thousand specialists of various profiles worked for creating and using management information systems (economists, analysts, project managers, algorithmists, programmers, data entry services workers, electronic engineers, computer operators, etc.). It is safe to say that in the USSR, during the specified period of time, a whole independent branch was created and functioned - the MIS industry.