Pobisk Georgievich Kuznetsov (; May 18, 1924,

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- December 4, 2000) was a Soviet Russian philosopher and scientist (chemist).

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, Professor. He was professor at the

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and Dubna State University (Moscow region,

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city, Russia). He was the last general designer of the

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. He worked for the

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. His father was a retired military man and his mother was a Physics teacher. He went to school in

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.https://большаков.рус/aboutteacher He then studied in Leningrad. During the

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he became a

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. He was awarded the

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on 1943. He was injured in 1943. He suffered from Stalin's repression. (He was arrested in 1944. He was released in 1954.) He was rehabilitated in 1956. He worked as a

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driver. From 1955 to 1961 he worked in the Ministry of Geology. In 1958 he graduated. From 1961 to 1964 he is a postgraduate student at the V. I. Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. He defended his dissertation for the

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degree in 1965. He worked at the V. I. Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. He headed the laboratory there, which was created on the initiative of Alexander Shelepin. In 1970 he was arrested and placed in a psychiatric clinic (

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). The Academy of Sciences was outraged and he was released. He worked together with Robert Bartini. Since 1974 he worked at the

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. Then he worked at

. He was the author of 200 scientific papers. He published in the newspaper

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. He was also awarded the

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in 1985, the

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in 1969.

Ideas

Many of his ideas emerged in the 1940s. What mattered was that in 1947 he learned about

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s. He developed the ideas of

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. Viktor Afanasyev supported him. Kuznetsov influenced

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, with whom he was close friends in the 1950s. Kuznetsov worked with Spartak Nikanorov (he met him in 1963, they will become friends). Kuznetsov called himself a student of Nikanorov and Ilyenkov. Kuznetsov was influenced by

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said that Kuznetsov was one of the first to understand the principles of physical economics.

References

External links

Life of Pobisk Kuznetsov, by Jonathan Tennenbuam
(2001)
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