Nikolai Kondratiev

Biography

Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kondratiev (1892–1938) was a renowned Soviet economist and statistician whose work on long-wave economic cycles, known as Kondratiev waves, made significant contributions to economic theory. Despite his scholarly achievements, his theoretical work eventually fell out of favor with Soviet authorities.

Kondratiev was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and executed at the Kommunarka shooting ground in 1938. His death silenced one of the Soviet Union's most original economic minds during a period when independent intellectual inquiry was increasingly dangerous.