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Nikonov, Aleksandr A. Born in 1918. From 1979 to 1984, he was the Academician
Secretary of the Economics and Management of Agricultural Production Department
of the V. I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural sciences . He has been an academician
of the Economics Department of the RAS since 1984. Since 1984, he has served as
President of the V. I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural sciences that was founded in
1929 and is the highest scientific institution in Russia in the fields of agriculture, water
resource management, and forestry.
Petrakov, Nikolai Ia. Corresponding member of the Economics Department of the
Academy since 1984; academician in 1993. Since 1973, he has been a Deputy
Director of the Central Economic and Mathematics Institute in Moscow. The
institute engages in contemporary mathematical economic work and has a major
responsibility for developing national economic and industrial plans. In late 1990,
he was named Director of a new institute--the Market Problems Institute in Moscow.
This institute was organized in late 1990 from a number of units transferred from the
Central Economic-Mathematical Institute for the purpose of improving the national
economic mechanism. Its staff consists of 170 researchers of whom 15 hold
doctoral degrees and 25 hold candidate degrees. There are two academicians of the
Russian Academy on its staff. In the 1990s researchers in the institute will work on
the theory and methodology of organizing markets in a socialist economy; problems
of the effective use of economic levers within the system of economic management;
the patterns of functioning and the evolution of market structures and mechanisms-the
forming of a system of control of market processes--and the modeling of the
interaction and integration processes between the internal and world markets. The
institute has established ties with scientific and research units in universities in the
United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Sweden, Iapan, Finland, South Korea,
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and other countries.
Shatalin, Stanislav S., C. Econ. S. Born in 1934 in Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast.
Russian economist. Corresponding member of the Economics Department of the
Academy since 1974, and academician, 1987. He graduated from the economics
Department of Moscow State University in 1958. From 1959 to 1965, he was a
research worker and Head of the intersector balance section of the SRI of Economics
of the State Planning Committee of the USSR (GOSPLAN). From 1965 to 1976,
he was a Deputy Director of the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the AN
SSSR and in 1976 he became Deputy Director of the Systems Research Scientific
Research Institute in Moscow and in 1977, Department Head of the All-Union SRI
of Systems Research for the State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT)
and for the AN SSSR. He also became the Head of the subdepartment of
mathematical methods of economic analysis in the economics Department at Moscow
State University. His primary work is in constructing mathematical economic
models and in national economic planning. In 1985, he joined the staff of the newly
organized Economics and Forecasting of Scientific-Technical Progress Institute in
Moscow. Recipient of the State Prize, 1968. In 1987, he received the V. S.
Nemchinov Prize for economics and statistics. (GSE 29, p. 546.)
Sitarian, Stefan A. D. Econ. S. Corresponding member of the Economics Department
of the Academy since 1984; academician since 1987.
Yaremenko, Iurii V. Born in 1935. Corresponding member of the Economics
Department of the Academy since 1987; academician in 1993. Since 1988, he has
been the Director of the Economics and Forecasting of Scientific-Technical Progress
Institute in Moscow which was established in 1985 and which has some 15
laboratories: Methods and Models of Medium and Short-Term Forecasting
Laboratory; the Organization and Methodological Provision of Complex
Socioeconomic Forecasting Laboratory; Information Provision of Complex
Socioeconomic Forecasting Laboratory; Long-Term Problems of Development of
the Sociocultural Sphere Laboratory; Regional Problems of Socioeconomic
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