Education
Alexander attended the Law Department of the Moscow University where he became interested in Wilhelm Roscher"s research.
economist statistician university professor
Alexander attended the Law Department of the Moscow University where he became interested in Wilhelm Roscher"s research.
Chuprov"s father was an Orthodox priest based in Mosalsk. He founded the Moscow Society to Disseminate Technical Knowledge in 1869 and was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1887. In his landmark work The Railway Economy (1875-1878) he analyzed statistics on railway traffic.
He distinguished one region from another according to "the value of the market, the cost of transportation, and demographic indicators".
Chuprov became known as "the heart and soul" of zemstvo stastistical investigations and sample surveys in the Russian Empire. Their mission was to provide a modern statistical description of the Russian peasant commune, or obschina.
Chuprov viewed the Russian obshchina as a valuable social institution which should be preserved.
His researchers are said to have interviewed 4.5 million Russian muzhiks.
Russian Academy of Sciences.