Editing Setun (section)

==== Initiation of the project ====
The Setun project was initiated by [[Sergei Sobolev]], in order to develop a small computer for use at the [[Moscow State University]], after the planned transfer of the M-2 computer to the university got canceled in 1953. In 1956, He organized a series of seminars analyzing the disadvantages of existing computers and various plans for technical implementation. These meetings include participants from the Moscow State University, the Institute of Atomic Energe, and other institutes of the Academy of Sciences. Notable attendees include Shura-Bura, Konstantin Adolfovich Semendaev, and Zhogolev. On one of these seminars on April 23, 1956, [[Nikolay Brusentsov|Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov]] was appointed as the executive designer and supervisor of the project.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Pioneers of Soviet Computing {{!}} SIGCIS |url=https://www.sigcis.org/malinovsky_pioneers |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=www.sigcis.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Prokhorov |first=Sergei |chapter=Sergei Sobolev - the eminent mathematician, founder of Russian computer science |date=June 2020 |title=2020 International Conference Engineering Technologies and Computer Science (EnT) |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9140591 |publisher=IEEE |pages=104–108 |doi=10.1109/EnT48576.2020.00026 |isbn=978-1-7281-8090-8}}</ref>

At the time, Brusentsov was a graduate (equivalent to a master degree, See [[Education in Russia]], Traditional model) at Moscow State University, who was graduated from the [[Moscow Power Engineering Institute|Moscow Energy Institute]]. Before appointing Brusentsov as the executive designer of Setun computer, Sobolev transferred Brusentsov to the Mechanics-Mathematics department and sent him to Gutenmakher's laboratory at the Institute for Precision Mechanics to gain relevant experience. To Brusentsov, this is an invaluable experience. In the lab, he had access to the lab's computers and their supporting documentations, which Brusentsov found being "technically weak". Brusentsov then decided to use a ternary number system.