Kantorovich L.V. (1912-1986), economist

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KANTOROVICH Leonid Vitalievich (1912, St. Petersburg - 1986), mathematician and economist, member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1964. Graduated from Leningrad State University with a major in mathematics and mechanics in 1930. He worked at the Leningrad Institute of Industrial Engineers (today, Military Engineering and Technical University) in 1930-48. There is a memorial plaque erected to him at 22 Zakharyevskaya Street. In 1932-60, he was a teacher at Leningrad State University promoted to professor in 1934, as well as teaching at other higher education institutions of the city. He lived in evacuation in 1942-45. He then worked as a senior researcher and head of a department at the Leningrad Branch of the Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1945-60 and was deputy director at the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1960-71. He lived and worked in Moscow from 1971. Kantorovich's works laid the foundation for a new branch of mathematics - linear programming which has been successfully applied in economy. He was awarded a Stalin Prize in 1949 and a Lenin Prize in 1965, as well as a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975. He lived at 32 Bolshoy Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side.

Reference: Канторович Леонид Витальевич. М., 1989.

A. L. Dmitriev. Kantorovich Leonid Vitalievich
Bolshoy Ave of Petrograskaya Storona/Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Zakharievskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Канторович Леонид Витальевич. М., 1989 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
Military Engineering University, St. Petersburg Department of the