Nikolai Prokofievich Fedorenko

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Nikolai Fedorenko Prokofjewitsch ( Russian Николай Прокофьевич Федоренко * April 28 . Jul / 11. May  1917 greg. In Preobraschenka, yekaterinoslav governorate ; † 1. April 2006 in Moscow ) was a Ukrainian-Russian chemist , economist and university lecturer .

Life

Fedorenko studied in Moscow at the Timiryazev Academy , the Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology (MITChT) with completion in 1941 and at the Voroshilov - Military Academy for Chemical Defense with completion in 1942. Then he participated in the Soviet-German war part.

After the war, Fedorenko returned to MITChT. In 1946 he developed a new approach to economic calculations for combined production processes. In 1949 this led to a methodology for determining the effort and efficiency of complex chemical production processes. In 1949 he became a candidate for economics . In 1955 he received his doctorate in economics . In 1956 he was appointed professor. With his calculations he contributed to the practical implementation of cost accounting in the chemical industry. In 1961 his monograph on the economy of the plastics industry was published and in 1967 another on problems in the economy of the plastics industry. In 1962 he became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) (since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)).

When the Central Institute for Economics and Mathematics (ZEMI) of the AN-SSSR was founded in Moscow in 1963 on the initiative of Vasily Sergeyevich Nemchinov , Fedorenko was its first director. 1964–1970 he headed the chair for mathematical methods of economic analysis at the Faculty of Economics of the Lomonosov University Moscow (MGU). In 1964 he became a real member of the AN-SSSR and in 1967 a member of the Presidium of the AN-SSSR. In 1966 he became a member of the Econometric Society and in 1967 a member of the International Economic Association . Fedorenko's work was the basis for the complex system of developing national economic plans . The goal was a mathematized central planning system using the linear optimization of Leonid Witaljewitsch Kantorowitsch with the use of computers to achieve an optimized central administration economy . Fedorenko's successor as director of the ZEMI was Valeri Leonidowitsch Makarow in 1985 .

Fedorenko was buried in the Troyekurovo cemetery in Moscow .

Honors, prizes, memberships

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Individual evidence

  1. ZEMI: Федоренко Николай Прокофьевич (accessed June 2, 2018).
  2. a b c d MGU: Федоренко Николай Прокофьевич (accessed June 2, 2018).
  3. a b Медаль “За трудовую доблесть” (accessed June 1, 2018).
  4. a b Орден Красной Звезды (accessed June 1, 2018).
  5. RAN: Федоренко Николай Прокофьевич (accessed June 2, 2018).
  6. Могила Н.П. Федоренко на Троекуровском кладбище в Москве (accessed June 2, 2018).