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Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering

facility in Moscow, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ1962793
Source-derived summary

Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering (IPMCE) is a Russian research institution. It used to be a Soviet Academy of Sciences organization in Soviet times. The institute specializes itself in the development of:

Computer systems for national security

Hardware and software for digital telecommunication

Multimedia systems for control and training

Positioning and navigational systems

In August 2009 IPMCE became a joint-stock company.

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The public source identifies “Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering” as facility in Moscow, Russia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lebedev, Institute and Precision.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-06-29. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lebedev, Institute and Precision providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1962793. VIAF identifies the subject as 142428991. The Library of Congress control number is n85365130. Authority coordinates are 55.699, 37.566. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.