Biography with a blacksmith

Someone returned, and someone stayed beyond its borders forever. Our fellow countrymen, settling around the world, continued to study, work and realize their knowledge and abilities in many areas of activity. Now more than 6 thousand immigrants from the territory of modern Belarus who have made a particularly significant contribution to the economy, science, and culture of different countries are known.

Among them there are Nobel Prize winners. One of such large -scale personalities is the scientist - economist, the classic of economic science of the 20th century, a native of the city of Pinsk Simon Kuznets for a long time believed that he was born in Kharkov. In the official documents, the great economist also wrote that he was born in this city, but Simon's wife Edith Handler -Kuznets, after the death of her husband, said that he was born in the Belarusian city of Pinsk.

Not so long ago, facts appeared that clarified the reason for such a misunderstanding. In the early January of the year, the Brest Courier newspaper published a selection of notes from pre-revolutionary Russian newspapers regarding the Brest-Pinsky Polesie. Attention was attracted by the following note: the embezzlement in the Azovsko-Don bank from Pinsk reports that the embezzlement in the department of the Azov-Don bank is far exceeding rubles.

The embezzlement, as clarified by the revision, reaches a figure of at least rubles. The culprit of the embezzlement, the chief accountant of the Pinsk branch of the Bank of the Bank, fled abroad, having managed to "call" rubles from several wealthy Pin residents. On the eve of his flight from Pinsk, the blacksmith transferred 20 rubles of banking money to one of their Leipzig banks, having arrived abroad, received them.

From Leipzig, a blacksmith, according to rumors, left for America. The board of the Azov-Don Bank was sent to Pinsk for the revision of the Pinsk branch of a special auditor. There was a hunch that it could be the father of the great economist. Although 8 years ago, when they wrote an article about banking in Pinsk, they found information that in the year the accountant of the Pinsk branch of the Azovsko -Don bank was A.

But before publishing such sensational material, they decided to figure out in detail. The Belgorod professor, former Kharkov, Vladimir Moskovkin, who has long studied the biography and scientific heritage of Simon Kuznets, helped check all the facts available. In order to get to the bottom of the truth, he even made a correspondence with relatives of the famous economist: his son, teacher of the University of Indiana Bloomington Paul Blacksmith, daughter Judit Stein, who lives in France, Kuzina Ruth Kuznets-Hippmann.

Professor V. Moskovkin reported the results of the correspondence in the article “Unknown Semyon Kuznets: Correspondence with his relatives”. The professor found out that Semyon the blacksmith never said anything about his childhood and youthful years, that his mother Polina Pesha Kuznets in girlishness Friedman with her sons Solomon and Semen lived in Kyiv for a while, and then left for Rivne, and Abram the blacksmith remained in Pinsk.

He went to America not in the year, which is written in various sources, but in the year. Pauline Kuznets in the year gave birth to in the expensive Kiev medical center of her son George. For this, even a birth certificate was specially lost. These facts have already allowed to more reliably assume that the Pinsk somplex was the father of Semyon of the blacksmith. The information was published in the historical and local history magazine "GISTARY BRAMA", however, all these events do not detract from the achievements of Semyon of the blacksmith.

It is now reliably established that the future Nobel laureate was born on April 30 in Pinsk. Simen Semyon was the middle of the three sons. Having left Pinsk and lived a little in Kyiv, the mother of Polina Kuznets with children in the year moved to Rivne to her parents.

Here, Semyon, along with his older brother Solomon, began to study at the city real school. With the outbreak of World War I in May, Polina and her children moved to Kharkov. Semyon continued his studies at the Kharkov real school and graduated from him in the year. Then he entered the Kharkov Commercial Institute since the year of the Kharkov Institute of National Economy, where many well-known research scientists of that time taught: A.

Antsyferov, I. Trakhtenberg, P. Fomin and many others. Training at the Institute of GG. In the year, in the collection “Materials on Labor Statistics in Ukraine”, his first article “Cash Work and employees of the factory industry of Kharkov in the year” was published. In the year, along with his elder brother Solomon, Semyon went to New York to his father.

Mother could not go, as she suffered from multiple sclerosis and soon died. The youngest son came to his father in the year. Semyon's father “Americanized” his surname on Smith Smith - English. Having entered the Faculty of Economics of Colombian University, in the year he received a bachelor's degree, and in the master in economics. As a master's dissertation, Simon presented the work he had written in Kharkov “The Economic System of Dr.

Schumeter, stated and criticized”.At the university, under the influence of his mentor, the famous American economist, Professor Wesley Mitchell, the blacksmith continued science in graduate school of Colombian University, and then at the NBEI National Bureau of Economic Research. In the year, Simon was awarded the degree of Doctor of Sciences. For many years he taught in the most prestigious universities in the United States.

He worked as a professor at Harvard for eleven years. They had a daughter and son. In life, the blacksmith was a very modest person. He was fond of literature and loved classical music very much. Simon invented and introduced into circulation the term “gross national product”. The theory that in poor countries is now more than the inequality of income in poor countries than in the rich, also proved the blacksmith also proved.

The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to him in the year for economic growth, "for the empirically sound interpretation of economic growth, which led to a new, deeper understanding of the economic and social structure and the development process as a whole." All textbooks on the economy were included in the phrase said by Simon Kuznets in one of his speeches: “The largest capital of the country is its people with their skill and motivation for useful economic activity.” Sources: Nobel laureates with Belarusian roots.

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