Kolosovsky Nikolay Nikolaevich ( 1891 - 1954 ), Soviet economist and economic geographer , one of the founders of the Soviet district school of economic geography . Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree ( 1942 ).
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| A country |  the USSR |
| Scientific field | economics economic geography |
| Place of work | State Planning Committee of the USSR , Hydroproject , SOPS , Geography Faculty of Moscow State University |
| Alma mater | St. Petersburg University of Railways |
| Famous students | T. M. Kalashnikova |
| Known as | theorist of economic regionalization and industrial geography , one of the founders of the Soviet regional school of economic geography |
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Education, project work
Born in the family of an employee of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair Administration. In 1916 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Railway Engineers and was sent to the Trans-Baikal District for the construction of strategic railways.
In 1921–31 he worked in the USSR State Planning Commission , where he was engaged in economic regionalization, developing schemes for studying and developing the resources of Siberia and the Far East (the Ural-Kuznetsk Combine, the Trans-Siberian Superhighway, Angarostroy, focal development of the North) [2] .
In 1931-36, Kolosovsky worked at the Hydroenergoproekt Institute, where he developed the project for the creation of the Angarostroy, in particular its first stage - the so-called. Baikal-Cheremkhovsky energy-industrial complex.
In 1936-46gg. worked in the structures of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , in particular in SOPS . During the war, he directed the deployment of the military industry in the Urals, solving transport problems associated with this.
He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery .
Scientific and teaching activities
After the war, Kolosovsky focused on teaching, was a professor at the Department of Economic Geography of the USSR [3], Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University , where he lectured since 1931 . Previously taught at the Institute of National Economy. Plekhanov. He created the author's lecture course on economic zoning, developed the conceptual apparatus of the Soviet district school of economic geography. N. N. Kolosovsky introduced into scientific practice such concepts as the energy production cycle (a set of industries combined by raw materials and energy ties), the territorial production complex (a set of industries, from the location of which an additional economic effect is achieved on one site), developed theory of economic zoning . He introduced the concepts of “territorial-production complex” (TPC) [4] and “energy-production cycle” (EPC) [5] .
Major works
- Economics of the Far East, Moscow, 1926 (co-author)
- The future of the Ural-Kuznetsk Combine, M. - L., 1932
- Fundamentals of economic zoning, M., 1958
- The theory of economic regionalization, M., 1969 a
See also
- Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia
- Baransky, Nikolai Nikolaevich
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Kolosovsky Nikolai Nikolaevich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ Champion of development of the eastern regions of Siberia
- ↑ History of the department
- ↑ Territorial production complex is an economically interdependent combination of enterprises in a separate industrial point or in the whole region, at which a certain economic effect is achieved due to the planned selection of enterprises.
- ↑ Energy-production cycle - a typically stable set of production processes that arise interdependently around the main process for a given type of raw material and energy