Russia, 37 km northeast of Moscow. The order is given to establish a secret, unnamed, and planned (i.e., not spontaneous) city, which will later become Zelenograd (Russian: Зеленоград) on January 15, 1963, with the aim of making it a technological development center. It will become the electronics capital of the Soviet Union, but in accordance with Minister Shokin’s strategy: “Copy it.” The goal of Directorate T (T for Teknologia) is to acquire Western technology and equipment and improve the Soviet Union’s ability to produce integrated circuits. The “Copy it” strategy will effectively condemn the Soviet Union to always be at least five years behind the United States in the rapidly developing integrated circuit sector.
