Anatoly Vishnevsky (1 April 1935 – 15 January 2021) was a Russian demographer and economist. He also wrote novels.

Biography

Vishnevsky earned a doctorate in economics in 1983, which would later effectively make him a member of the

Russian Academy of Natural Sciences The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Russian language, Russian: Российская академия естественных наук) is a Russian non-governmental organization founded on August 31 1990 in Moscow in the former Soviet Uni ...

. He directed the Institute of Demography at the

Higher School of Economics HSE University (), officially the National Research University Higher School of Economics () is a public research university founded in 1992 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia. Along with its main campus located in the capital, the university ...

. Vishnevsky was editor-in-chief of the information bulletin "Population and Society" and of the online journal "Demoscope Weekly". He was also a writer and historian of the

White émigré White Russian émigrés were Russians who emigrated from the territory of the former Russian Empire in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and who were in opposition to the revolutionary Bolshevik com ...

. He was a teacher in

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

, which at the time was a part of the

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. He graduated from the

National University of Kharkiv The V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (), also known as Kharkiv National University or Karazin University, is a public university in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasily Karazin, becoming the second old ...

in 1958 with a degree in statistics. In 1967, he defended a thesis titled "Urban agglomerations and the economic regulation of their growth" at the

Central Economic Mathematical Institute The Central Economic Mathematical Institute () of the Russian Academy of Sciences is an economic research institute located in Moscow. It focuses on economic theory, mathematical economics and econometrics. The CEMI was established in 1963 as an i ...

. In 1971, he moved to Moscow and began working at the USSR Demographic Research Institute. In 1990, Vishnevsky worked in

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as a visiting professor at

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, the

University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis Paris 8 University (), or usually the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis or Paris 8, is a public university in the Paris Metropolitan Area, Greater Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public ...

, and

Sciences Po Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

. He was an active member of several councils and committees, such as the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) program of

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. On 27 April 2010, the Higher School of Economics celebrated his 75th birthday. Anatoly Vishnevsky died in Moscow on 15 January 2021, at the age of 85 from Covid-19.

References

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