Background
Vasily Nemchinov was born on January 2, 1894 in Grabovo, Penza Oblast, Russia.
Vasily Nemchinov was born on January 2, 1894 in Grabovo, Penza Oblast, Russia.
He attended secondary school in Chelyabinsk until 1913. He then studied at the economics department of the Moscow Institute of Commerce.
One of the leaders of the Soviet delegation at the talks at Dumbarton Oaks (USA, 1944). In 1949-1963 - Chairman of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS). In 1953-1959, Academician-Secretary of the economic, philosophical and legal sciences, from 1953 to 1962 - Member of the Presidium of the USSR. An active participant in international conferences in Bucharest and Cluj (1957), Beijing, Shanghai and Paris (1958), Milan and Rome (1959), Budapest (1961), Warsaw and Krakow (1961), Sofia and Varna (1962), Prague Bratislava (1962), Berlin, The Hague and Birmingham (1964). Three sessions of the International Statistical Institute (XXX, 1957; XXXI, 1958; XXXII, 1960) discussed his reports on the balance sheet method in economic statistics, the mathematical and economic problems of the construction of the balance of the national economy, the cross-sectoral balance sheet as a macro-economic model of optimal planning. In 1958, organized the country's first laboratory of economic and mathematical studies of the USSR.