Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin

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Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin ( Russian Леонид Иванович Абалкин ; born  May 5, 1930 in Moscow ; † May 2, 2011 ibid) was a Russian economist .

In 1966 he became head of the Chair of Political Economy at the Plekhanov Institute for Economics in Moscow. In 1972 he was appointed professor. In 1986 he became director of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , of which he became a full member in 1987. Shortly before the end of the Cold War, he was appointed Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR on June 8, 1989 .

Abalkin, who enjoyed playing chess in his spare time, was chairman of the RSFSR Chess Federation in the 1980s . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , he dealt with the reopening of chess schools in different parts of Russia. Together with Anatoly Karpov , he headed the Chess and Education Commission of the Russian Chess Federation.

In 1992 Abalkin was the founding father of the International Kondratieff Foundation .

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  1. Состав комиссии ( Russian ) January 9, 2007. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved on June 29, 2015.
  2. ^ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation from May 5th, 2000. Retrieved September 10, 2018 (Russian).
  3. ^ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 14, 2005. Retrieved September 10, 2018 (Russian).
  4. ^ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation from November 18, 2010. Retrieved September 10, 2018 (Russian).