Akim Mikhailovich Zolotarev – Reformer Statistician
https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2022-29-3-125-133
Abstract
The article is devoted to the life and work of a prominent, but now forgotten, Russian statistician and statesman A.M. Zolotarev (1853– 1912), who headed the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1904–1911. Based on the analysis of his works and on a number of historiographic publications, the image of the scientist who was at the origins of the formation of the course of military statistics in the military educational institutions of the country is recreated. His role in the teaching of military geography is shown. The paper covers his activities in the Central Statistical Committee: issuing of a new periodical statistical publication «Yearbook of Russia», attempts to reform state statistics undertaken in 1908. The article characterizes proposals of A.M. Zolotarev on reforming state statistics. The author argues that despite the fact that for a number of reasons, mostly objective, some conceptual ideas of A.M. Zolotarev about the organizational principles of Russian state statistics were not accepted at that time, his role in the development of the Russian state statistics and especially in the formation of military statistics is very significant.
About the Author
A. L. Dmitriev
St. Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anton L. Dmitriev – Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Docent, Department of General Economic Theory and History of Economic Thought; Docent, Department of Economic Cybernetics, St. Petersburg State University; Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Actual History, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
21, Sadovaya Str., St. Petersburg, 191023, Russia
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Dmitriev A.L. Akim Mikhailovich Zolotarev – Reformer Statistician. Voprosy statistiki. 2022;29(3):125-133. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2022-29-3-125-133
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