Chronology
A life and a body of work on one scale. The chronology in the biography lists posts and degrees; here the books stand beside them, and the turns in his thinking become visible.
life work award
- 1946
8 May 1946, Ivanovo
- 1964
Left School No. 33 in Ivanovo with a gold medal, after several years of winning the city mathematics olympiads
- 1969
Graduated with honours from the Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
- 1969—1991
Institute of Electronic Control Machines: from junior researcher to head of the laboratory of mathematical problems of industrial economics
- 1972
Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics
- 1986
Production Functions: Theory, Methods and Applications
The first major book and the summation of the mathematical period. Production functions as economic-statistical models — an apparatus he returned to throughout his life.
- 1989
Doctor of Economic Sciences
- 1991
Professor
- 1991—2026
Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences: head of the laboratory of microeconomic analysis and modelling, deputy director, head of the division for modelling production facilities and complexes and of the research programme in mesoeconomics, microeconomics and corporate economics
- 1997
The Enterprise in an Unstable Economic Environment: Risks and Strategies
The turn from mathematics to the enterprise. How a firm behaves in an unstable environment — a question posed by the economy of the 1990s that shaped the next twenty years.
- 1998
Professor at the State University of Management
- 1998—2017
Deputy Director for Research, CEMI RAS
- 1999
The Russian Economy at the Turn of the Century
The Russian economy at the turn of the century: an attempt to describe the transition as a whole rather than as a series of separate reforms.
- 2000—2026
Founded the All-Russian symposium “Strategic Planning and Enterprise Development” at CEMI RAS and chaired it for twenty-seven years. The 27th was held on 14—15 April 2026, two months before his death
- 2000
Econometric Relationships: Principles and Methods of Construction
A methodological book on how econometric relationships are constructed. The modelling line, unbroken since the 1970s.
- 2001
Mesoeconomics of the Transition Period: Markets, Industries, Enterprises
The appearance of the meso level as a subject in its own right: markets, industries and enterprises considered together, between macro- and microeconomics.
- 2002
V.S. Nemchinov Prize
- 2003
Elected Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2004
The Evolution of Institutional Systems
Institutional systems from enterprise to country: how they form, how they change, and why they resist transplantation.
- 2007
Head of the Chair of Institutional Economics, State University of Management
- 2007
The Microeconomics of Knowledge
Knowledge as an economic resource at enterprise level — an early approach to what later became the intellectual theory of the firm.
- 2007
Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, 2nd class
- 2008—2026
Editor-in-chief of the journal Economics of Contemporary Russia. The journal was founded in 1998 by Academician D. S. Lvov, who led it until his death in July 2007: the fourth issue of 2007 still appeared under his editorship. From the first issue of 2008 the journal was headed by Kleiner
- 2008
An integrated socio-economic strategy for the enterprise. One of his most practical books, written to be used.
- 2009
Professor at the Moscow School of Economics, MSU
- 2009—2024
Founded the chair of systems analysis in economics at the Financial University and headed it for fifteen years, remaining thereafter its academic supervisor. He had worked with the university since 1992
- 2010
The theory of economic systems takes shape and is applied for the first time to corporate and strategic management.
- 2011
The Mesoeconomics of Development
Mesoeconomics is no longer a description of the transition but an instrument for analysing development.
- 2014
Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, 1st class
- 2016
Economics. Modelling. Mathematics
Selected works. The three words of the title are the three occupations he pursued simultaneously for forty years.
- 2016
Diploma for special achievement in economics education — a special award of the Free Economic Society competition “Economics and Management 2015”, in which the chair he headed also won its category
- 2016
Silver Medal of the Free Economic Society of Russia
- 2017
The Systemic Balance of the Economy
Assessing the balance of an economy through four sectors — object, project, environment and process. The core of systems economic theory.
- 2017
N.D. Kondratiev Gold Medal
- 2020
National “Professor of the Year” award in economics
- 2021
System Economics: The Milestones in Development
The fullest statement of systems economics, the direction to which his last twenty years were given.
- 2021, 2023
Certificates of Merit of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2022
The Free Economic Society of Russia’s Economics Book of the Year award, for a contribution to economic theory — for Systems Economics: Steps of Development
- 2023
Preobrazhenie Prize, for advancing the knowledge economy in Russia
- 2023
The I.A. Ilyin Prize and Medal of the All-Russian Quality Organisation, for outstanding scientific achievement in the field of quality
- 2024
Order of Friendship
- 2024
Jubilee medal “300 Years of the Russian Academy of Sciences”
- 2025
Intellectual Technologies in Micro- and Mesoeconomics: A Monograph
Intellectual technologies at the micro and meso levels — a direction he did not have time to unfold.
- 2025
Certificate of Merit from the Rector of the Financial University, for service on its Academic Council
- 2026
Scientific report “Is a unified economic theory possible?” — the international seminar Theoretical Economics of the Institute of Economics of the RAS and the New Economic Association, 9 April
- 2026
Scientific report “Outlines and predictors of a unified economic theory” to the Academic Council of CEMI RAS, 18 May — his last public appearance
- 2026
System Economics on the March: Frontiers and Bearings
The summing-up: 484 pages drawn from the work of his last five years — the methodology of economic science, systemic management of organisations, and Russia's development strategy. Preface by A.R. Bakhtizin. The book carries a 2026 imprint.
- 2026
4 June 2026