Background
He is an author of several articles on the development of agriculture in Belarus, on which he has referred in his fundamental work "Problems distribution of agriculture and industry" (1927). He Called himself a student of another Russian economist - N. Makarov.Belarusian economists of the 1920s often referred on Kotov's scientific articles about problems of agricultural development in Belarus.
Together with the Belarusian economist A. Scheinin was one of the founders of the termin "conjuncture" in Belarusian economy (on example of the agriculture of Belarus). Kotov conjuncture characterized as "a set of conditions that determine the profitability of the production of a product." A number of conclusions made by Kotov are useful nowadays. In particular, the danger to the local economy separation of domestic prices on the movement of world prices, and the sharp fluctuations in prices on the domestic market.
