What is "uzel"

Uzel (or Uzel-près-l'Oust) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. It is about west-northwest of Rennes and north-northwest of Loudéac.

The old school, in the centre of Uzel, was the scene of torture and killings by the Nazis and by the collarborationist Bezen Perrot, in 1944.

Uzel may refer to:

• Uzel, a village and commune in the Côtes-d'Armor département, France
• Uzel (computer), the first digital computer used on Soviet submarines
• Uzel Holding, a tractor manufacturer in Turkey
• Radim Uzel, Czech sexologist

Uzel was the Soviet Union's first digital computer used on submarines, to assist in tracking multiple targets and calculate torpedo solutions. Uzel's design team was headed by two American defectors to the Soviet Union, Alfred Sarant (aka Philip Staros) and Joel Barr (aka Joseph Berg). An upgraded version of the Uzel computer is still in use on the Kilo class submarine today.