 Engineering Physics Department was established here in 1946 on the initiative of the president and several members of the USSR Academy of Sciences.From this department in 1954 graduated Dr. Yuri Denisjuk, a future renowned scientist, author of several discoveries in holography, and laureate of the state award.In 1956, the researchers of the Computing Devices Department began to work on the first calculating machine “LITMO-1” that was finished in 1958.