
Illustration by Armine Shahbazyan.
The Razdan-2 series was first released in 1961 to solve scientific and engineering problems. It could perform up to 5,000 operations per second.
The Razdan-3 was first released in 1966. Its applications expanded into economics and statistics, and was used in experimental physics.
From 1962 to 1964, the Yerevan Computer Research Institute designed and released a prototype of another computer named Araks.

The main technical characteristics of Araks.
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The Razdan family of general purpose digital computers.
Another Soviet-era computer was the Aragats. It too was designed and assembled at the Yerevan Computer Research Institute between 1958-1960. Aragats had a limited edition; only four units were ever made. It incorporated new custom-designed computer memory technology based on a photo reading device (capable of converting an image into a processing unit), magnetic tapes, external drums and ferrite cores.
The four Aragats machines were used in the computer centers of the Armenian and Georgian academies of science, one in a Moscow research institute, and the other in the computer center of the Novosibirsk branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

This article’s title sounds like it gives credit to the soviet union instead of the brilliant Armenian youth. especially since the soviet union does not exist anymore. Let’s give credit where it is due and move away from Soviet Stockholm syndrome. Thanks.