Аннотация:The history of the first Soviet computer creating was very dramatic. The first project of electronic computer development has appeared in the middle of 1948, but the first two computers M-1 and MESM were designed only at the end of 1951. They were designed at the institutes of the Academy of Sciences. It was a reputable organization staffed by the most qualified scientists and specialists, having equipped laboratories and its own enterprises. In addition, all leading physicists and mathematicians worked at the Academy of Sciences. That is why the Academy of Sciences was destined to create the Soviet atomic bomb and computers. The Academy of Sciences itself was constantly under the scrutiny of the leadership of the Communist Party of the USSR. The direct curator of the Academy of Sciences was Yuri Zhdanov, Stalin's son-in-law, husband of his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. The article describes the dramatic history of creating the first Soviet computers. How the political upheavals of that period, particularly the famous "Leningrad affair", influenced the development of work in creating the first computers and the development of new promising technologies, conducted at that time at the Academy of Sciences.