On August 21, 2010, Alexander Vladimirovich Akimov, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Department of Economic Research of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, turned 60 years old.

After graduating from the Faculty of Geography of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1972, Alexander Vladimirovich worked as a researcher at the All-Russian Research Institute of Complex Fuel and Energy Problems under the State Planning Committee of the USSR. In 1977, Alexander Vladimirovich defended his PhD thesis on the topic "Population forecasting for a set of territorial units of different levels". Since 1984, A.V. Akimov has been working at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Economic Research, continuing his research, organizational and teaching activities.

In 2005, Alexander Vladimirovich successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and became Head of the Department of Economic Research of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 2005, the project "Economic mechanisms of development in the countries of the East in the second half of the XX century and the possibilities of their change in Russia"was completed. Employees of the department headed by A.V. Akimov did a great job of clarifying and specifying the concept of an economic mechanism necessary for creating a database. They are divided into categories that allow, on the one hand, to take into account the diversity and variability of state regulation of the economy in the Eastern countries in the second half of the XX century and, on the other, to provide for the possibility of developing many aspects of macroeconomic regulation of the Russian economy in market conditions. A total of 47 files of 2,740 KB were created, which constitute an electronic database of economic mechanisms in the Eastern countries of the second half of the 20th century. Under the leadership of A.V. Akimov, the Department of Economic Research participated in the program of fundamental research of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Public Potential of History", related to the development of important measures in the economic policy of Russia.

At the initiative of A.V. Akimov, forecasting activities were resumed at the Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the results of the forecast were sent to state authorities and commercial firms for information cooperation and country consulting.

Alexander Vladimirovich Akimov is a talented and versatile scientist, whose research interests are quite extensive - from the problems of population forecasting to the strategy of including Russia in the global global process. He has written a number of monographs on various economic issues, published more than 30 major works, and published many of his articles, studies, and reports at scientific conferences in foreign languages. In 2007, based on the methodology he developed, he made a forecast and calculated the dynamics of the world population up to 2300. In his monograph "2300: Global Problems and Russia (looking from the Future)", A.V. Akimov analyzed the consequences of population growth, its resource limitations, as well as its unevenness across countries, which can potentially become a threat to European civilization. The author also considered the possibilities of Russia for its participation in the international division of labor not only as an exporter of fuel and energy, but also food.

A.V. Akimov's numerous articles and books published in recent years also analyze many other topical issues of our country's economic policy.

Alexander Vladimirovich is constantly involved in the training of scientific personnel - since 2004, he has been the Head of the Department of World Economy at the Eastern University of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, gives lectures and successfully provides scientific guidance to graduate students. In addition, Alexander Vladimirovich lectures at the ISAA of Moscow State University. He enjoys authority among students and always helps young scientists.

Alexander Vladimirovich Akimov is a friendly and very interesting person, well-educated and always ready to help his colleagues.

The Department of Economic Research, the Directorate of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the editorial board of the journal "Vostok (Oriens)" cordially congratulate the hero of the day and wish him good health and new success in his multifaceted scientific work.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF A. V. AKIMOV

Uchet demograficheskogo faktora v kompleksnykh imitatsionnykh modeli [Accounting for the demographic factor in complex imitation models].

About creating demographic models to simulate population dynamics and distribution // Modeling of socio-economic processes (Qualitative hypotheses and simulation approach), Moscow, 1976, pp. 157-169.

Global crude Oil Market Model // Economics of the oil industry. 1979. N3. pp. 31-36.

Operational description of the demographic transition for predicting population dynamics. Moscow: CEMI, 1980. 47 p. (together with Yu.G. Lipetsk).

Impact of inflation on the dynamics of oil and oil products prices on the world market // Economics of the oil industry. 1982. N 10. pp. 9-10.

World Population (A Look into the Future), Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1992, 199 p.

World Food Problem: a chance for Russia in the 21st century? Moscow: East. un-T., 1999. 124 p.

Strategy for Russia's inclusion in the global division of labor through participation in solving global problems // Economy of Developing countries: in memory of V. A. Yashkin, Moscow: Gumanitarii, 2004, pp. 32-59.

Global demographic problem and developing countries // Developing countries in the system of global processes of modernity (long-term trends), Moscow, 1990, pp. 48-56.

Prospects for population dynamics in Eastern countries // Economy of developing countries: Problems and prospects, Moscow, 1990, pp. 21-31.

World population: a look into the future, Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1992, 199 p.

Experiments with the demographic and economic model of developing countries for analyzing strategies for solving the global demographic problem / / Countries of the East, Moscow, 1992, pp. 176-192.

Prospects of economic integration of Russia and Central Asia / / Russia in foreign economic relations: lessons of History and modernity, Moscow, 1993, pp. 163-172.

World economic aspect of the problem / / Vostok (Oriens). 1994. N 5. pp. 5-10.

Prospects for economic integration / / Asia and Africa today. 1994. N 6. pp. 32-33.

Russia and Central Asia: Prospects for Economic Integration. 1994. N4. pp. 120-130.

Central Asia's place in the world economy. Statistical analysis // West Asia, Central Asia and Transcaucasia: integration and Conflicts, Moscow, 1995, pp. 31-38.

Search for a place in the world economy / / Central Asia: ways of integration into the world community. Moscow, 1995. pp. 86-107.

Central Asian alternatives: Russia and Central Asia: Prospects for Development and Integration / / Eurasian Community: economy, politics, and security. Eurasian community: economics, policy, security. Alma-Ata, 1995. N3. pp. 57-71.

Strategies for Russia's adaptation to the global economy // Economic reforms in Asia in the Transition Period, Moscow, 1996, pp. 20-26.

Central Asia and the CIS: Disengagement or Integration? // East (Oriens). 1996. N 5. pp. 19-28.

Demographic materials for reflections on the prospects of Russian positions in the East (Dynamics of the population of Central Asia and neighboring states in 1960-2020) / / Moscow Oriental Studies, Moscow, 1997, pp. 286-307.

World Food Problem: a chance for Russia in the 21st century? Moscow: East. un-t Publ., 1999, 88 p.

World food problem: variants of the West, opportunities of the East and the chance of Russia / / Orientalists-Orientalists: To the anniversary of G. K. Shirokov. Moscow, 2000. pp. 237-276.

China and India in the context of Russia's political and Economic interests // Russian Oriental Studies in memory of M. S. Kapitsa: essays, research, Developments, Moscow, 2001, pp. 346-368 (sovm. with S. I. Lunev, A. I. Salitsky).

China, India, Russia-state and prospects of cooperation / / Vostok (Oriens). 2001. N 4. pp. 92-104 (together with S. I. Lunev, A. I. Salitsky).

Russia's Economic Development Strategy: the eastern component / / Vostok (Oriens). 2003. N 4. p. 100-112.

The developing world in the process of demographic transition. Ekonomicheskaya geografiya mirovogo razvitiya [Economic Geography of World Development]. XX vek. SPb., 2003. pp. 98-120.

2300 goda: global'nye problemy i Rossiya [Global Problems and Russia], Moscow, 2008, 256 p.

World development, population growth and its provision with basic natural resources / / Geografiya mirovogo razvitiya. Issue 1. Collection of scientific papers edited by L. M. Sintserov. Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2009, pp. 179-201.

Long-term population forecast and prospects for civilizational interaction // East (Oriens). 2009. N4. pp. 95-110.

Already passed 1/10 of the XX century. To the discussion "Long-term forecast of the population size and prospects of civilizational interaction" / / Vostok (Oriens) 2010. N 5. pp. 103-112.

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