Gennady Victorovich Lebedev (April 29, 1957 in the
USSR – May 12, 2004 in
Turkey) was a Russian economist, representative of
Austrian School, businessman and politician. He advocated
free enterprise
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and
laissez-faire.
Biography
Gennady Lebedev was born on 29 April 1957 in Soviet Union. In 1974 he enrolled in
MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, a faculty of
Moscow State University. He graduated with distinction and became postgraduate student. He then joined the Laboratory of computational approaches of MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.
He was an author of several computer sciences textbooks. For example, his most popular textbook for pupils, ''Basic computer sciences and computer engineering'', was published in an edition of 7 million. Others of his textbooks are also popular among professors and Lebedev's influence on Russian computer science is widely acknowledged.
In the beginning of 1992 he left the post of chairman and participated in the corporatization of Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port and organisation of
Yukos Oil Company
OJSC "Yukos Oil Company" (russian: ОАО Нефтяна́я Компа́ния Ю́КОС, links=no, ) was an oil and gas company based in Moscow, Russia. Yukos was acquired from the Russian government by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsk ...
where initially he worked as a consultant and later as a vice-president.
Lebedev died on May 12, 2004, and is buried in Troitsk.
Readings in memory of Gennady Lebedev
Readings in memory of Lebedev take place yearly and are dedicated to projects which develop ideas of
freedom
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and
liberty.
Works
Liberal Charter. 1992 year Constitution of Ideal State. 1992 year. Constitutional amendments. 2001 year. Conception of energetics development in Russian Federation. 2001 year. Obligations of presidential candidate. 1999 year.
GVL Library
Russian publishing house 'Sotsium' jointly with 'Liberal Charter' organised the special series of books called 'GVL Library in honour of Gennady Lebedev (GVL are his initials) and the common subject of the books is
libertarian
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orientation.
References
External links
Reading in Memory of Gennady Lebedev Gennday Lebedev's pageGVL Library
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1957 births
2004 deaths
Austrian School economists
Moscow State University alumni
Russian economists
Russian libertarians
Russian politicians