The book is dedicated to the life and work of the pioneers of domestic digital electronic computer technology - S.A. Lebedeva, I.S. Bruka, B.I. Rameeva, V.M. Glushkova, N.Ya. Matyukhina, M.A. Kartseva and others - a remarkable galaxy of scientists from a truly unique multinational constellation of powerful talents who ensured the rise of the most important areas of science and technology in the first decades after the Great Patriotic War. For the first time, we talk about scientific schools in the field of digital electronic computing technology in the years of its formation, about the results of a huge the dedicated work of scientists and the teams led by them to provide computer technology for space research, nuclear energy, rocket science, first-class space tracking systems, missile defense and air defense, which prevented the Cold War from sliding into open aggression against the USSR, and contributed to the emergence of disarmament treaties. Many archival documents, photographic illustrations collected by the author, a famous scientist, a witness and participant in the work on the creation of the first computers, are published for the first time. For specialists, students and everyone interested in computer technology, cybernetics, computer science, the creative heritage of remarkable scientists, creators of the first domestic computers.