Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin (russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Аба́лкин ; 5 May 1930 – 2 May 2011) was a Russian economist.

Biography

Abalkin was born in

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in 1930. He was a graduate of the Plekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economy. He became director of the Institute of Economics of the

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in 1986. He was a member of the

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with special responsibility for economic affairs. He later worked as an advisor to Presidents

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and

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

, and was the second-in-command of Premier

Nikolai Ryzhkov Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov ( uk, Микола Іванович Рижков; russian: Николай Иванович Рыжков; born 28 September 1929) is a Soviet, and later Russian, politician. He served as the last Chairman of the Counci ...

's government. Under Gorbachev he was one of the major advocates of rapid economic reform,L. I. Abalkin, ''Kursom uskoreniya'' he strategy of acceleration(Moscow: Politizdat): 1986. with the consultancy of the Italian economist

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, and in 1998 became a member of the Economic Crisis Group. Since 1995 Abalkin was also a member of the

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. Upon hearing of his death, the then

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Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

stated:

Honours and awards

Order of Merit for the Fatherland Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...

, 3rd class (18 November 2010) – for his significant contribution to the development of domestic science in economics and many years of fruitful activity; 4th class (5 May 2000) – for services to science and training of highly qualified personnel * Medal of Honour (14 November 2005) – for great contribution to science and education *

Order of Friendship of Peoples The Order of Friendship of Peoples (russian: oрден Дружбы народов, translit=orden Druzhby narodov) was an order of the Soviet Union, and was awarded to persons (including non-citizens), organizations, enterprises, military unit ...

Order of the Badge of Honour The Order of the Badge of Honour (russian: орден «Знак Почёта», orden "Znak Pochyota") was a civilian award of the Soviet Union. It was established on 25 November 1935, and was conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding ...

* Laureate of the Science Support Foundation in the category "Outstanding Scientists" (2004)

References

External links

Abalkin's information at the Russian Academy of Sciences site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abalkin, Leonid 1930 births 2011 deaths Economists from Moscow Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union Members of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences 20th-century Russian economists Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin Plekhanov Russian University of Economics alumni Soviet economists