Background
Mikhail Pizengolts was born on July 15, 1926 in Khoiniki village in the USSR times (nowadays Belarus).
Mikhail Pizengolts was born on July 15, 1926 in Khoiniki village in the USSR times (nowadays Belarus).
He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University in 1951.
In 1951-1954 he was an inspector of the State Bank branch in the town of Bor, Gorky Region. In 1957-1990 he worked as a senior lecturer, associate professor, professor, head of the department of statistics and accounting at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute. He became Doctor of economic sciences in 1968. In 1990-2000 he was a professor at the Accounting Department of the All-Union (Russian) Agricultural Institute of Correspondence Education in Moscow. Since 2001 he had been a professor at Moscow University of Consumer Cooperation.