I think this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-up_Nation mentions it, but I don't know any source that writes in details about it. All from my memory of seeing relatives and friends that worked for Soviet research institutes --> sweeping streets in the desert sun at +40 Celsius ---> working on interesting hardware/software projects. It's amazing how people can thrive and pull out of the lows if you give them a hand. Completely the opposite happened to people in Russia, these research institutes were shut down and people just succumbed to alcoholism. Decades of knowledge were lost or just transferred to the US defense industry.