The paper was written in the period of May 12-18, 1977 and was published in "Programmirovanie" journal №5, 1977. It was also presented as atalk at IFIP Conference in Canada

Work on this book took several years; the book was finished and published in 1977

Ershov planned to publish a booklet "Three lessons in Algol" based on this work. He even sent an application to the "Nauka" publishers but the project remained unfinished

of the paper "Non-machine design of software systems" written for a confrence

for "Za Nauku v Sibiri" about IFIP Working conference in Akademgorodok

for the leading article

"Programming in the USSR: achievements and goals" (leading article for anniversary issue of "Programmirovanie" journal).