Vasily Sergeyevich Nemchinov (; 14 January 1894 – 5 November 1964) was a Soviet and Russian

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and

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. Nemchinov is credited with introducing mathematical methods into Soviet economics, thus creating a scientific basis for

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Biography

Nemchinov was born in Grabovo. He attended secondary school in

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until 1913. He then studied at the economics department of the Moscow Institute of Commerce (). After graduation in 1917 he began to work as an economist and statistician for the

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in the

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Works

* "On the Statistical Study of Rural Class Stratification", 1926, Bulleting of Urals Regional Statistical Admin. * "Experience from the Classification of Peasant Households", Vestnik statistiki. * The Use of Mathematics in Economics, 3 volumes, 1959-65. * Methods and Models of Mathematical Economics, 1967-9. * Selected Works, 1967-9.

Honors

* Three

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(1939, 1946, 1964) * Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1940, 1944) *

Order of the Red Star The Order of the Red Star () was a military decoration of the Soviet Union. It was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 6 April 1930 but its statute was only defined in decree of the Presidium of the ...

(1945) * Stalin Prize (1946) * Honorary member of the

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(1961) *

Lenin Prize The Lenin Prize (, ) was one of the most prestigious awards of the Soviet Union for accomplishments relating to science, literature, arts, architecture, and technology. It was originally created on June 23, 1925, and awarded until 1934. During ...

(1965, posthumously)

External links

Biography
at the

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Information about his works
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