VNIIPAS

The entrance signboard at VNIIPAS (Gosteleradio screenshot, 1988)

The All Union Scientific Research Institute for Applied Automated Systems (VNIIPAS/ВНИИПАС) was a Soviet research institute that maintained computer networking, including international digital connections,^[1] at official level and was the central node of inner USSR scientific data network called Academset.^[2][3]

It existed since 1982 until 1995. It was derived from 1976-established VNIISI/ВНИИСИ which was a partner project of Austrian International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

The IIASA at Laxenburg, Austria was created in 1972 as a joint USSR-USA effort to establish global scientific communications through Club of Rome. In 1983 VNIIPAS and George Soros created joint telecommunication venture San Francisco — Moscow Teleport (SFMT) later known as Sovam Teleport ("Soviet-American teleport") that operated digital connections between USSR and USA and later became SWIFT provider for Soviet banking system.

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• The Status of Soviet Civil Science: Proceedings of the Symposium on Soviet Scientific Research, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, September 24–26, 1986
• Judy, Richard; Clough, Robert (1989). "Soviet Computer Software and Applications in the 1980s" (PDF). Retrieved 10 April 2021. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Goodman, Seymour; McHenry, William; Wolcott, Peter (1989). "Scientific Computing in the Soviet Union". Computers in Physics. doi:10.1063/1.4822814. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
• Russia Telecom Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information, Regulations, Contacts, 2008
• Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-communist Nations, 2000