Aleksey Rumyantsev

Aleksei Matveyevich Rumyantsev (; 16 February 1905 – 1 December 1993) was a Soviet economist, sociologist and academic.

Biography Rumyantsev was born into a poor peasant family and worked as a laborer. In 1923 he entered the Kharkiv Institute of National Economy. At the same time, in 1925–1927 he worked in the staff of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1926 he graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of National Economy.

He served in the Red Army for a short period and from 1928 to 1929 he worked in the staff of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the Ukrainian SSR, and in 1929–1930 from the staff of the People's Commissariat of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR, where he became an associate of Nikita Khrushchev.

From 1930 to 1933 he studied at the graduate school of the Research Institute of Economics and Organization of Industry and at the same time taught at the Kharkiv Institute of Engineering and Economics. From 1933 to 1936 he was a professor at Kharkiv State University. He defended his dissertation "The emergence of private ownership of movable property" in 1940 at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences.

From 1946 to 1949 he was secretary of the Kharkiv Regional Committee for Propaganda. From 1949 to 1950 he was the head of the Department of Political Economy at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. From 1950 to 1952 he was the director of the Institute of Economics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. From 1951 to 1952 he was chairman of the Bureau of the Department of Social Sciences of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

From July 1952 he worked in Moscow. From July 1952 to March 1953 he was head of the Department of Economic and Historical Sciences and Higher Educational Institutions of the CPSU (B), member and chairman of the Standing Commission on Ideological Issues under the CPSU Central Committee Presidium. From March 1953 to 1955 he was head of the department of science and culture of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

From 1965 to 1967 he was an academician-secretary of the economics department of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. During this time he was also one of the directors of the European (Vienna) Center for the Coordination of Research in the Social Sciences. After his dismissal from the ICSD, he headed the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences "History of the National Economy and Socio-Economic Doctrines." From August 1971 he was a member of the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Rumyantsev was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1952 to 1976 and a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1962.

Aleksei Rumyantsev died on December 1, 1993, he was buried in Moscow, at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.