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, academic and public figure.


Biography

He was born into the family of a village priest. In 1912 he graduated from the Tambov Theological Seminary. In the same year he entered the Kiev Commercial Institute and a year later he transferred to the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics">Moscow Commercial Institute, from which he graduated in 1917. From 1914, Ostrovityanov was a member of the Bolsheviks">Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
 faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">RSDLP The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; in , ''Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)''), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist pol ...
. In 1916 he was elected a member of the underground Moscow Committee of the RSDLP (B). He was arrested and until February 1917 was in prison in Moscow. From October 1917 he was secretary of the Zamoskvoretsky Military Revolutionary Committee of Moscow and rom 1917 to 1918 he worked as secretary of the factory committee and head of the department of public education. From 1918 to 1921 he was secretary of the Zamoskvoretsky District Committee of the Russian Communist Party (B) in Moscow, secretary of the Bauman District Committee of the RCP (B) in Moscow, and a member of the bureau of the Moscow City Committee of the RCP (B). At the end of 1921 he began his scientific activity. He taught at the Party School and worked at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. In 1928, in co-authorship with I. Lapidus, he prepared and published the country's first fundamental two-volume textbook on political economy. At the same time, from 1930 to 1936, he was the academic secretary of the Communist Academy. From 1930 to 1940 he taught at the Moscow Credit and Economic Institute. He was chairman of the Expert Commission on Political Economy of the Committee on Higher Education under the USSR. From 1943 to 1953 he was head of the Department of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics of the
Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
. From 1946 to 1953 he was director of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1948 to 1954 he was the editor-in-chief of the journal '' Problems of Economy''. From 1949 to 1953, he was Acting Academician-Secretary of the Department of Economic, Philosophical and Legal Sciences of Academy of Sciences of the Soviet and From 1953 to 1963 he was the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He became an Academician of the Academy of Sciences in 1953. From October 1953 to June 29, 1962, he served as Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. From 1966 to 1967 he was chairman of the bureau of the Scientific Council on "Economic Laws of the Development of Socialism and its Transformation into Communism." Together with
Dmitri Shepilov Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov (russian: link=no, Дми́трий Трофи́мович Шепи́лов, ''Dmitrij Trofimovič Šepilov''; – 18 August 1995) was a Soviet economist, lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affai ...
, he headed a group of authors and editors of the textbook Political Economy (1954), written on the basis of
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
's instructions. He was Editor-in-Chief of the three-volume History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Ostrovityanov was a foreign member of many foreign academies, honorary doctor and professor of a number of universities. He headed the Association of Soviet Economic Scientific Institutions and was chairman of the Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship Society. He died on February 9, 1969, after a serious illness and was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery.


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Political Economy , Textbook by the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Edited by K. V. Ostrovityanov at marxists.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Ostrovityanov, Konstantin 1892 births 1969 deaths Soviet economists Marxian economists Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Old Bolsheviks Russian revolutionaries Soviet editors Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union candidate members Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg) Plekhanov Russian University of Economics alumni Russian Marxists