Vasily Sergejewitsch Nemtschinow

Vasily Sergeyevich Nemchinov ( Russian Василий Сергеевич Немчинов ; born January 2 ^{. Jul} / 14. January  1894 ^greg. In Grabowo ( Rajon Bessonowka ); † 5. November 1964 in Moscow ) was a Russian economist , statistician and university teachers .

Life

Nemchinov attended secondary school in Chelyabinsk (graduated in 1913) and then studied at the economics department of the Moscow Trade Institute (graduated in 1917). During his studies in World War I , he headed the refugee department of the All-Russian Zemstvo Union (1915–1917) and the statistics sector of the food centers of the Semgor Moscow- Kiev .

After the October Revolution , Nemchinov headed the statistics department of the Chelyabinsk Zemstvo (1917–1922). In 1919 he gave a lecture on European art history at the Chelyabinsk People's University . After the establishment of provinces Chelyabinsk in 1919, he led the statistical office of the government and the implementation of the first census of the RSFSR in the government. In 1923 he became managing director of the Ural Oblast Statistical Office in Sverdlovsk . 1926-1934 he was a member of the college of the repeatedly renamed Central Statistical Office of the USSR and the Gosplan . In 1937 he became vice-chairman of the new commission of the People's Commissariat for Agriculture for the examination of cereal crops.

Since 1928, when he was appointed professor, Nemtschinow headed the chair of statistics at Moscow's Timiryazev Academy and in 1940 became director of the Timiryazev Academy, having received his doctorate in economics in 1935. In the Moscow House of Scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) he headed the statistics department from 1939 to 1948. In 1940 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR . When the Institute of Economics of the AN-SSSR was founded in Moscow in 1940, Nemchinov was the head of the statistics department. In 1944 he was part of the leadership of the Soviet delegation to the Dumbarton Oaks conference in preparation for the founding of the United Nations . In 1946 he became a real member of the AN SSSR (since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)). In 1947 he was appointed professor to the chair for political economy at the Academy for General Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU .

At the August 1948 meeting of the All- Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in which Nemchinov had just become a member, he appeared against Trofim Denisovich Lysenko and defended scientifically based genetics . The day after the meeting, he lost the office of director of the Timiryazev Academy, and Vsevolod Nikolayevich Steletov succeeded him. Half a year later Nemtschinow had to give up the chair of statistics there.

1949–1963 Nemtschinow was chairman of the council for the investigation of the productive forces as the successor of the mining scientist Lev Dmitrijewitsch Shevyakov . Nemtschinow worked on the problems of building a construction and metallurgy industry and the construction of barrages on the upper reaches of the Yenisei and in the Amur catchment area . After Nemchinov, the economist Nikolai Nikolayevich Nekrasov took over the chairmanship of this council.

1953-1959 Nemtschinow was academy secretary of the department for economics, philosophy and jurisprudence of the AN-SSSR. After that he was a member of the executive committee of the AN-SSSR until 1962. In 1954 he initiated the all-union conference on the problems of statistics teaching at business schools. In 1955 he was one of the signatories of the letter of 300 to the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the state of biology in the USSR with criticism of the opinions and activities of Lysenko. The letter resulted in Lyssenko's resignation from the office of President of the All Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the resignation of his supporters from their posts in the AN-SSSR.

In 1958 Nemchinov organized the first laboratory for economic and mathematical studies in the USSR for the AN-SSSR. This laboratory was the basis for the Central Institute for Economics and Mathematics (ZEMI) of the AN-SSSR in Moscow, founded in 1963 , of which Nikolai Prokofievich Fedorenko became the first director . Nemtschinow founded in 1962 and then headed the chair for mathematical methods of economic analysis at the Faculty of Economics at Lomonosov University Moscow (MGU) until 1964 . He gave a lecture on economic methods and models. 1963–1964 he headed the chair for methods of economic analysis at the MGU. He participated in international conferences in Bucharest and Cluj (1957), Beijing , Shanghai and Paris (1958), Milan and Rome (1959), Budapest , Warsaw and Krakow (1961), Sofia , Varna , Prague and Pressburg (1962) and Berlin , The Hague and Birmingham (1964). At the three meetings of the International Statistical Institute in 1957, 1958 and 1960 he lectured on the balance sheet method of economic statistics , on mathematical problems of accounting for the national economy and on input-output analysis as a macroeconomic model for optimized planning. In 1958 he became a member of the International Statistical Institute and in 1961 a member of the Royal Statistical Society . In 1964 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Birmingham .

In 1993 the RAN donated a prize in honor of Nemchinov.

Honors, prizes

• Order of Lenin (1939, 1946, 1964)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1940, 1944)
• Order of the Red Star (1945)
• Stalin Prize (1946)
• Lenin Prize (1965 posthumously )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} ЦНБ НАН Беларуси: Василий Сергеевич Немчинов (accessed June 2, 2018).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} ZEMI: Немчинов Василий Сергеевич (accessed June 2, 2018).
3. ^ Siberian branch of the RAN: НЕМЧИНОВ ВАСИЛИЙ СЕРГЕЕВИЧ (accessed June 3, 2018).
4. ↑ MGU: Немчинов Василий Сергеевич (accessed June 3, 2018).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Немчинов В. С. In: Учёные записки по статистике: Сб . tape 3 , 1964.
6. ↑ RAN: Немчинов Василий Сергеевич (accessed June 3, 2018).
7. ↑ Балакина Людмила Павловна: Этос науки: академик В. С. Немчинов защищает генетику (на материалах сессии ВАСХНИЛ 1948 года) . In: Вестник Южно-Уральского государственного университета. Серия: Социально-гуманитарные науки . No. 8 , 2010 ( [1] accessed June 2, 2018).
8. ↑ Письмо трёхсот (с сокращениями из цензурных соображений) . In: Pravda . January 13, 1989.