Computing in the Baltic Countries (1960–1990)

The history of formation and development of programming in the USSR Academy of Sciences is a subject that has not yet received a comprehensive development. In the Baltic countries, the very actors of the process of the formation and development of programming and science historians study their history in a wide range of problems. There is a certain amount of interest in the socioeconomic and research aspect of informatics in the Baltic countries viewed through the prism of the Cold War realities. The article examines the work experience of Baltic programmers in the period of the 1960s through 1980s based on publications and material from the A. P. Ershov Electronic Archive which have not yet been introduced into public research circulation.