INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS AND ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION - USSR

Created: 6/28/1978

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OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION Subordination:

OF ECONOMICS AND

Siberian

USSR Academy ot

rospekt Naukiirector:

Abel G. AGANBEGYAN

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AleksandL- G. GRANBERG Stanislav M. MENSHIKOV (on leave) B. P. ORLOV

Tat'yana I. ZASLAVSKAYA

Historical Background and Specialization:

The Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production is one of two Soviet academic institutes engaged in contemporary mathematical-economic work (the other is the Central Economic-Mathematics Institute in Moscow, directed by Nikolay Fedorenko). The institute, headed by Abel Aganbegyan, employseconomists, mathematicians, geographers and computer specialists. It focuses its activity on forecasting economicas well as on long-term national economic and development planning on the basis ofmodels. Attention is also paid to tho moreproblems of Siberian industrial development. The institute's researchers have published articles dealinguch topics as the long-rangeof the US economy, exploitation of Siberian natural resources, methodologies for the study of rural social problems, optimum transport services, economic modeling of long-term regional construction programs, and consideration of human interests in designing regional production complexes.

The institute was formed shortly after theof Sciences established its Siberianin Novosibirsko implement itsgeographic dispersal of scientific researchand personnel. The institute is pntt ofcomplex (colled Akademqorodok or "Science

of research institutes, laboratories, experimental

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plantsniversity located aboutilometers bc f the city. Aganbegyon succeeded itsdirector, G. A. Prudenskiy, in6 and immediately brought about its motger with tho

Academy of Sciences* Laboratory for

Mathematical Methods. Since thc merger, emphasis in the institute has shifted from primarily labor-oriented soclologic il research to development of the use of mathematical methods in economics. The institute also performs numerous studies for Siberian industryee basis.

The institute publishes two professional, Russian-language journals: Hewn of tho Siberian Department of tha USSR Aoadamy ofSocial Saienoaa Sariea and Eoonomioa and Organimation of Induatrial Traduction. The foimeronthly series on the social sciences, including economic topics, and the latter provides coverage ot eastern regional problems, technical economic-mathematical studies, and articles on the integration oftechniques into the sphere of economics.

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