Russia, 37 km northeast of Moscow. Zelenograd (Russian: Зеленоград) receives city status and its name. Orders had been given in 1958 to establish the secret, nameless, and planned (i.e., non-spontaneous) city, which would later become Zelenograd on January 15, 1963. Its purpose was to become a center of technological development. It would 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) was to acquire Western technology and equipment and improve the Soviet Union’s ability to produce integrated circuits. The “Copy it” strategy would effectively condemn the Soviet Union to always be at least five years behind the United States in the rapidly developing integrated circuit sector.
