Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2

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The M-2 ({{Langx|ru|М-2}})This letter "M" is in Russian alphabet, have different Unicode code than in English alphabet (affects search). was a computer developed at the Laboratory of Electrical Systems in the Institute of Energy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The successor to the M-1, it was developed in 1952 by a team of engineers led by I.S. Brook (or Bruk).{{cite web|url=http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/m2.htm |title=The Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2. Russian Virtual Computer Museum. English version. Articles |publisher=Computer-museum.ru |date= |access-date=2012-12-01}}

The computer was developed and assembled in the period between April and December 1952. In 1953 M-2 became fully operational and was used for solving applied problems on round-the-clock basis,{{sfn|Malinovsky|2010|pp=71-72}} mostly having to do with nuclear fission and rocket design.

M-2 was the basis for several other{{specify}} Soviet computers, some of them developed at other research institutes.