The Founding Fathers of the Socio-Economic Doctrine in the Years of the Great Turning Point, the Transition to a Planned Socialist System (N.D. Kondratiev, His Associates — A.L. Weinstein and Contemporaries L.E. Mints and S.A. Heinman) According to Personal Memories

The article is devoted to the Russian economists, contemporaries of the “chief economist of the NEP” Nikolai Kondratiev — Albert Weinstein, Lev Mints and Semyon Heynman. All of them were repressed, spent many years in exile and, after being released in the 50s, returned to scientific research, participated in the development of Russian economics science in the 1960s and 70s, engaged in applied economic research, statistical and mathematical digital models, developed proposals for the socio-economic growth of the country. The author shares personal memories of these outstanding scientists, emphasizes their significant personal contribution to the development of Russian economic science.