Fidelity to Political Economy (Scientific and Pedagogical Activity of Professor Cherkovets)

The article is devoted to scientific and pedagogical activity of the prominent Soviet and Russian economist, professor Viktor Niktich Cherkovets who was, for many years, engaged in the problems of political economy analysis of social and economic processes taking place in the country under changing reality. Professor Cherkovets is the author, co-author and head of the authorship team of many works which played a notable role in the development of Soviet and Russian economic science as a whole and especially political economy as its most important discipline. As a teacher to the end of his life, a professor and a chief researcher of the Department of Political Economy of the Faculty of Economics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Viktor Cherkovets consistently and firmly defended the independent place of political economy in the system of economic sciences and as an academic discipline. As a Dean of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow University and one of the heads of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences for a long period of time, Viktor Cherkovets participated in the most important programs of the social and economic development of the Soviet Union. His students, former undergraduates and postgraduates, have always been occupying important positions in science, education, fi nancial and economic spheres, and in governmentas well.