in the very center of minsk , a sewing factory was under construction. cars named after ardzhanikidze. construction of the plant began and at the same time our specialists, designers, technologists , mathematicians worked in some old houses, buildings , the plant was built in the shortest possible time, in the fifty-sixth year a decision was made, in the ninth year the first products were produced, although in addition to the resolution ... but both the enterprise staff and the belarusian leadership had to fight for the production of machines of their own design. on july 9 , 1959, the fiftieth department was formed, a division for creating its own programs, but about the team of mathematicians. there were still doubts. in august 1959 , the head of the fiftieth department, gennady konstantinovich stolerov, was urgently called to the director of the plant, vadim karlovich goldberg, to ask a rhetorical question. why is this necessary? the chief engineer of the plant and the chief engineer of skb were the most indignant. the words were different, but the main message was why there are mat