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

for the leading article

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

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

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