43 Facts About Anatoly Kitov

Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov was a pioneer of cybernetics in the Soviet Union.

The Kitov family moved to Tashkent in 1921, as Anatoly's father, Ivan Stepanovich Kitov, had served as a junior officer in the White Army and wanted to avoid the repercussions of the Russian Civil War.

Anatoly Kitov skipped the first academic year and joined in the second.

Anatoly Kitov took an active role as chairman of the academy's student scientific society.

Anatoly Kitov contributed to the efforts of Sergei Korolev's task force, which was engaged in the development of the Soviet R-1 missile.

In 1950, Anatoly Kitov graduated from the academy with honors and received a gold medal.

Anatoly Kitov was the first user of the first Soviet serial computer "Strela" within the Military Ministry of the USSR.

Anatoly Kitov was the first in the USSR to organise and lead scientific work on solving military problems with the use of electronic computers.

Between 1953 and 1963, Anatoly Kitov issued the Soviet Union's first series of scientific journal articles on military informatics.

In Computer Center Number 1 at the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, Anatoly Kitov came up with many of the ideas of modern military informatics used today.

In 1952, Anatoly Kitov founded and headed the first Soviet "Department of Computers" at the Artillery Academy.

Also in 1952, Anatoly Kitov wrote the nation's first scientific PhD dissertation on programming, with the subject "Programming of the outer ballistics problems for the long range missiles".

In 1953, Anatoly Kitov published a pioneering 30-page scientific article, "Implementation and usage of electronic computers", the Union's first such article.

In May 1954, when he was 33, Anatoly Kitov founded the first computer centre in the USSR, the Computer Centre No 1 of the Ministry of Defense and became its first head.

Anatoly Kitov enjoyed indisputable authority and respect among his colleagues and subordinates.

Anatoly Kitov defended it in 1963 at the closed meeting of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Management Problems.

Besides the "M-100", in his dissertation research Anatoly Kitov analysed principles of designing specialised military computers.

Anatoly Kitov defined specific features of their structure, invented algorithmic programming languages for solving complex anti-air defence problems with the use of computers, and performed computer modelling of dynamical systems connected with air defence systems demands.

At the CC No 1, Anatoly Kitov headed and participated in the design and manufacturing of two new computers: "M-100" and "Udar".

Anatoly Kitov proposed to implement this principle at the CC No 1, where it was used for the M-100, which was developed under Anatoly Kitov's guidance.

Anatoly Kitov established a special department of mathematics for designing the M-100 computer.

The books Anatoly Kitov wrote became a key part of the history of Soviet science education, as the first most complete sources on computer science, programming, and automated management systems.

Anatoly Kitov was the author of the first Soviet book and textbook on programming, computers, and their applications.

Anatoly Kitov published 12 scientific books translated into nine foreign languages.

Anatoly Kitov's books brought to general readers information and knowledge about the birth of a new branch of information technology.

From 1951 to 1952, Anatoly Kitov read the book Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener in English.

Anatoly Kitov found this book in the library of the secret base SKB-245.

Thusly, Anatoly Kitov began the struggle for the recognition of cybernetics in the USSR.

From 1953 to 1954, Anatoly Kitov lectured on cybernetics in well-known Soviet organizations.

From 1955 to 1961, the scientific works of Anatoly Kitov played a significant role in the recognition of cybernetics as a science and in its development in the USSR and other socialist countries.

Anatoly Kitov was the creator of the idea of automated management systems in the Soviet Union.

The programming language ALGEM, created with Anatoly Kitov's guidance, was described.

Anatoly Kitov is famous in the former Soviet Union for being the first cyberneticist in the world to suggest a global integrated computer network for automated management of both the USSR's national economy and the armed forces.

Anatoly Kitov initiated scientific works at the CC No 1 on computational linguistics and machine translation.

Anatoly Kitov proposed to concentrate the centre's initial basic efforts not on direct increases in performance, but on the development of methods, algorithms, and programs which permitted extending processing, storage, and retrieval semantic information.

Anatoly Kitov was the creator of two algorithmic programming languages: ALGEM and NORMIN.

Anatoly Kitov proposed that all work in the field of computing research and automated management systems be subjected to a single state body which would be granted a monopoly to coordinate, control, and implement all developments and achievements of that branch.

Anatoly Kitov wanted the system to perform on the national scale, and wrote about it in many of his articles.

Anatoly Kitov became a world leader in medical cybernetics, overseeing the development of the information model of the Soviet medical industry; unified software packages for forming and logical control of information arrays were worked out.

Anatoly Kitov made great contributions to the creation of "local" medical AMSes, which functioned within specific enterprises: at hospitals, clinics, and drugstores.

For 12 years, Anatoly Kitov was the national representative of the USSR in the field of medical informatics at the United Nations and UNESCO, serving in top-level positions at the International Federation of Medical Informatics, the International Medical Informatics Association, and Technical Committee No 4 of the International Federation for Information Processing.

Anatoly Kitov participated in the organization of three international congresses of MedInfo: the first World Congress of MedINFO, the second World Congress, and the third World Congress.

Anatoly Kitov had a natural interest for acquiring knowledge and studying its dissemination, and passing it on to those who surrounded him.