# BESM **Domain:** Computing History / Soviet Computers **Doc Type:** Computer System Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Sergey Lebedev]], [[MESM]], [[Soviet Cybernetics]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition A family of high-speed Soviet electronic computers initiated under Sergey Lebedev. ## Kybernetiks Context BESM belongs to the operational computing lineage that survived ideological conflict over the word cybernetics. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]