In memory os the scientist :: MEDVEDEV Vitaly Fedosovich

Vitaly Fedosovich Medvedev (26.09.1928 - 17.06.2020) a scientist and economist. Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1984), Doctor of Economic Sciences (1981), Professor (1982). Member of the partisan movement in Belarus.

Born in v. Ugolshchina, Belynichi district, Mogilev region.

— Graduated from the Belarusian State University (1952).
— Since 1955 - Junior, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR.
— Since 1961 - Head of the Department of the State Planning Committee of the BSSR, since 1967 - Director of the Research Institute of Economics and Economic and Mathematical Planning Methods at the State Planning Committee of the BSSR.
— Since 1973 - Director of the Belarusian Scientific Research Institute of Scientific and Technical Information and Technical and Economic Research of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus.
— Since 1993 - Senior Advisor to the Institute "Belinformprognoz" under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus.
— Since 1998 - Head of Department of the Center of World Economy and International Economic Relations, Head of Sector of the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
— In 1963-2003 - Senior Economic Advisor of the UNECE.
— Since 2011 - Head of the Sector "World Economy" of the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

The works are devoted to the methodology of research, modeling and forecasting the development of regional economic systems, solving specific economic problems of the long-term and medium-term development of Belarus, building a system of information support for science, technology and production. He proposed a system of methods and models for developing forecasts, schemes for locating productive forces and integrated development of the national economy of Belarus, and developed a set of scientific substantiations for the formation and development of the national economic complex of the Republic of Belarus. He developed a model of international economic relations of the Republic of Belarus with the world community. Under his leadership, developed a national program for the development of exports, tourism in the medium term.

Author of more than 400 scientific papers, incl. 14 monographs.

Awarded with the Order "Badge of Honor" (1978), medals.

Major papers:

Совершенствование регионального планирования. Мн., 1979.
Современный мир и проблемы формирования в Беларуси новой модели социально-экономической системы. Мн., 1997.
Национальная программа развития экспорта на 2000-05 гг. Мн., 2000.
Мировая экономика. Мн., 2003 (в соавт.).