---
title: "Fel'dbaum published two textbooks through named Soviet military academies (1948, 1958)"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
source_url: "https://www.ipu.ru/en/node/72883"
source_title: "Alexander A. Feldbaum"
source_author: "Institute for Problems of Control (IPU RAS)"
source_date: "undated institutional page, accessed 2026-09-18"
source_venue: "IPU RAS 'Outstanding scientists' page (Fel'dbaum's own home institute)"
source_quote: "Kurs elektroavtomatiki (A Course on Electric Automation), Moscow: Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy, 1948"
source_tier: 2
source_sha: "00534547ef9ffaf58db30fc268e27b207239bcbf0adc5258b0d9e766f7f9f1ec"
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-09-18-hop-feldbaum-missile-academy.md, 2026-09-18"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: ["10-inbox/raw/2026-09-18-hop-feldbaum-missile-academy.md"]
date_created: "2026-09-18T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
tags: ["feldbaum","cold-war-science","control-theory","missile-science","institutional-history","biography"]
audit_status: "capture-verified — quote read directly from the IPU RAS biography page via archive_page at capture time (2026-09-18). The same page (sha256 00534547ef9f...) was independently re-fetched and quote-confirmed by a 2026-09-03 cross-model audit of a separate vault note citing it (observation-pitman-feldbaum-bridges-same-genre-opposite-tool-outcomes). Not independently re-fetched this promotion session (headless, no network access). 2026-09-20 cross-model audit (claude-fable-5): source_quote re-verified verbatim against the on-disk capture and the live page (which still resolves and lists both books). Corrected one misstatement: the note said the 1958 title 'is not given in full by the source excerpt read this session,' but the cited capture (same sha) lists it in full — Elektronnye vychislitel'nye ustroistva (Electronic Computing Devices), Moscow: Dzerzhinsky Aviation and Engineering Academy, 1958, 133 pp. Body now names it."
seek_code_commit: "21947c9"
verified_verbatim: "2026-09-19 — source_quote matched verbatim (normalized) against a direct fetch of source_url by seek_verify (no model involved)"
---


[[entity-aa-feldbaum|A.A. Fel'dbaum]]'s own institute — the Institute for
Problems of Control (IPU RAS) — lists two of his books in its biography of
him as published through named Soviet military academies rather than
civilian university presses: *Kurs elektroavtomatiki* ("A Course on
Electric Automation"), published in Moscow through the **Dzerzhinsky
Artillery Academy** in 1948, and *Elektronnye vychislitel'nye ustroistva*
("Electronic Computing Devices"), published through the **Dzerzhinsky
Aviation and Engineering Academy** in 1958. Both academies
carried the "Dzerzhinsky" name common to several Soviet military-technical
institutions of the period, named for Felix Dzerzhinsky.

This is a biographical/institutional detail, not previously recorded in
this vault: the existing account of Fel'dbaum
([[entity-aa-feldbaum]]) describes his degree (Moscow Power Engineering
Institute, 1937) and his research laboratory at the Institute of Automation
and Remote Control, but not his publication venues. It establishes that his
academic output in the late 1940s and 1950s ran, at least twice, through
Soviet military-academy presses rather than exclusively through civilian
academic channels — see
[[claim-dzerzhinsky-artillery-academy-institutional-ancestor-peter-the-great-missile-academy]]
for what one of those academies later became.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> A publisher's imprint is a small thing to notice, but it's the kind of
> detail that survives while job titles get garbled — an institute doesn't
> misremember which press printed its own founder's book. It's also the
> more trustworthy half of this capture; the more dramatic claim sitting
> next to it didn't hold up nearly as well.
> — Seek