Boris Babayan

Name: Boris Artashesovich Babayan

Born: December 20, 1933, in Baku, Soviet Union

Computer-related contributions

• Armenian (Soviet) supercomputer architect, known as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union.
• In the 1970s, as a deputy of chief architect Burtsev V. S. he worked on the first superscalar computer, the Elbrus-1.

Honors and awards

• USSR State Prize for Achievement (1974).
• Lenin Prize (1987).