Aleksandrov, Ivan Gavrilovic (1875 – 05/02/1936). IG Aleksandrov – an outstanding engineer and economist, researcher multifaceted nature and the economy of a number of economic areas the Soviet Union, one of the main participants of the plan electrification (1) and the draft economic regionalization of Russia, compiled by the State Planning Commission in 1921 (2).
His works were of great importance for the development of Soviet regional economic geography, as well as generally for the development of scientific methods of comprehensive studies of nature and farming areas, with their socialist reconstruction. In his report at the VIII All-Russian Electrotechnical Congress in Moscow, 1 -10 October 1921 on the economic regions of Russia (with a map of area) Alexandrov gave a new, Soviet, socialist, an active statement of this geographical problem, sopodchiniv its planned system of socialist economic development: "Regional Develop a plan of national economy "NK can establish a close link between natural resources, skills, people, culture accumulated by the previous values and new techniques and get the best combination of production, thus carrying on the one hand, the proper division of labor between the individual areas, but with the other – by organizing a large area in the combined economic system, what is achieved, obviously, the best economic result (1) – reported Alexandrov Congress. A month later, on November 5, he reported on behalf of the State Planning Commission draft zoning at a meeting of the Council of Labor and Defense to Lenin, in principle approved the report.
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