Alexey Vasilevich Gurlo (1894-1960) - the director of Belarus State National Economy Institution (BSNEI) from 1933 till 1935.

He was born to a family of peasants in the village of Kopyl, Minsk region in 1894. He started his working biography as a postman in 1913, he became a member of the Communist Party in 1919.

He was admitted to the Pre- University Training Faculty of Belarus State University in 1922 and later to the main university courses, he graduated from BSU in 1929. After graduation he was assigned to the position of the Dean of the Pre-University Training Faculty and at the same time he was studying as an external post-graduate student at the Academy of Sciences.

At the beginning of 1933 he started as the first director of the newly opened National Economy Institution within the framework of the State Planning Institution of BSSR.

He was stroke off the Communist party membership in the autumn of 1935, then arrested on 13th of November, 1935. After a special summit of the USSR People's Commissars on Internal Affairs (NKVD) he was condemned and sentenced to three years of deprivation of liberty on 14th of May 1936. He served his sentence in Komy SSR; he was set free in January 1939.

During the years 1939-1941 he worked for Mogilev Regional Planning Commission. In 1941 he was mobilized to serve for the Red Army, front-line forces. He had been in active service till September of 1945. He was conferred those medals upon: "For Fighting Merits", "For the Defence of Moscow", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", " For the Capture of Berlin", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War". After demobilisation he worked as the chairman-deputy of Mogilev Regional Executive Committee, starting 1947 he worked as the department-head for Mogilev Regional Consumers' Co-operatives Union.

On 23rd of November, 1956, the BSSR Bar of Supreme Court of Justice cancelled the resolution of the special summit of NKVD, 14th of May, 1936. The case was ceased, and A.V.Gurlo was informed of lack of corpus delicti in his case on 23rd of November, 1956. A.V. Gurlo died in 1960.

Ivan Leonidovich Satsunkevich was the director of Belarus State National Economy Institution in 1935 - 1936 years. He was born in Makon, the village of Igumenski district of Minsk region, 1904.

He finished the Preparatory Faculty of BSU in 1926. He graduated from the Economy of Industry Faculty, BSU, specialization in wood-working industry.

Being a post-graduate student, he already held the duty of the deputy- director for industrial training at the Economy and Planning Institution. Starting 1934, he was the Dean of the Finance and Economy Faculty for Belarus State National Economy Institution; he worked as the director of this institution starting 1935. Later I. L. Satsunkevich was recalled to the Planning Organs (Planning Board) of BSSR, then worked as the First Secretary of Zaslavl District Communist Party Executive Committee. Then he worked as the secretary for Industrial Sector of Minsk Regional Communist Party Executive Committee.

During the Great Patriotic War years (starting 1942), he organized the partisan detachment, "Razgrom" by name. Later I. L. Satsunkevichand was the leader of the Resistance movement in Dzerzhinsky, Rudensky, Chervensky, Pukhovichsky, Minsky and other districts of Minsk region. He headed Minsk Inter- District Underground Communist Party Committee and the partisan formation of Minsk Zone in October, 1942.

I.L. Satsunkevich became the BSSR Light Industry Commissar starting March of 1943; then the Light Industry People's Commissar. Till 1965 he was the Head of the Fish Industry Supreme Administrative Board of the Ministers Soviet for BSSR. He was the elected candidate - member to the Central Committee of the BSSR Communist Party. He attended the Second BSSR Supreme Soviet as a delegate. He was honoured with three orders, among them the "Lenin Order".

Aaron Moiseevich Shtarkman (1903-1938) was the director of Belarus State National Economy Institution (BSNEI) from 1936 till 1937.

He was born to a worker family in a small town Perchev, Lublin province (now Poland). He became a Komsomol member in 1919 and a Communist party member in 1925. He graduated from a pedagogical college in 1928 and worked as a teacher for a secondary school in Koydanovo (Dzerzhinsk district, Minsk region), later he became the Principal of this school.

He continued his education as a post-graduate of the Academy of Science and at the same time held classes at BSNEI from 1932 till 1935 years. Starting 1936 he became the director of BSNEI.

He was arrested on 3rd of March, 1938, was accused of espionage. He was sentenced to death with the resolution passed by the NKVD summit on 26th of May, 1938. The sentence was carried out the same day.

The resolution of BSSR Military Tribunal of 8th of April, 1958, ceased the case against A. M. Shtarkman for the lack of corpus delicti.

Nikolay Vasilievich Kazjuk was the director of Belarus National Economy Institution from 1937 till 1938. He was born in 1898, in Korchitsy, Kobrinsky administrative unit, Hrodno region.

Nikolay went to Russia in search for work in 1915. He joined the Red Army as a volunteer in 1918, had been in the Civil War fronts for a while, he was shell-shocked in 1919 and was demobilized to Saratov, from where he was sent to study to Moscow. He was a student and at the same time he worked as a worker-journalist for the newspaper "Working Moscow".

Later he became a student of the Journalism Institution and continued his work for the newspaper. After graduation from this Institute he wrote for the Communist Party Central Committee magazine "Village communist". He worked for "SelkhosGiz" (the State Publishing House for agriculture workers and village population) and was the head of the Agricultural Production Department till 1932 and he was still studying, now as a post graduate.

N.V. Kazjuk was appointed later to the position of instructor for the Communist Party Central Committee Cultural Production Department and at the same time he worked for the Publishing Department. He was transferred to the BSSR Communist Party Central Committee as the head of the Publishing Department there in 1936. In November of 1937 he became the director of BSNEI.

He was arrested on the charge of belonging to counter-revolutionary organization on 28th of July, 1938.

During investigation the counts of the indictment against him couldn't be proven and he was set free on 8th of March, 1939.

Gavreel Leontjevich Sugrobov (1906 - 1989) was the director of Belarus State National Economy Institution from 1938 till 1939 and from 1949 till 1962.

He was born to a family of peasants in Penza region, 1906. He finished pedagogical college and applied to Moscow Pedagogical Institution, the Faculty of History and Economics. He graduated successfully and became a postgraduate student of Moscow Planning Institution, the Department of Economic Geography, 1936. After graduation he accepted the offer and became the head (obtained the chair) of the Economic Geography Department at BSNEI.

For some time he worked as the deputy-director, responsible for the studying process, at the Institution and became the director later. By the decree of the Communist Party Central Committee and the decision of the BSSR Soviet of People's Commissars (SovNarKom) he gained the position of the deputy - head of the BSSR State's Planning Organs in September, 1939.

During the Great Patriotic War and till 1949 he worked for the Planning Organs. In 1949 he became the director of the Institution again and continued his work for the Department of Economic Geography. He retired in 1962.

G. L. Sugrobov has deserved government's recompenses: the "Red Star Order", the medals "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War" and "For Devoted Work during the Great Patriotic War".

When performing his duties as the Institution director he paid much attention to the questions of furnishing the institution staff with qualified employees, to the organizational process and the improvement of the quality of research and investigation. All his measures contributed much to the improved quality of young specialists training. G. L. Sugrobov died on 25th of January, 1989.

Pavel Andreevich Balabanov was the director of Belarus State National Economy Institution from 1939 till 1940.

He graduated from BSU in 1925, then became a post-graduate student, eventually became a holder of first higher degree, awarded on dissertation in economics. In 1938 he started his career as a senior lecturer for BSNEI. He perished in 1941.

Fedor Sergeevitch Mikunov was the director of Belarus State National Economy Institution from 1940 till 1941.

He was born in the village Snosovo, Ivanovo region, 1896. He became a member of the Communist party in 1918, took part in the events of the Civil war, he rose to the rank of the head of the brigade's headquarters.

He served as the deputy-head of the NKVD organs in Gorskaja Republic from 1921 till 1923. Till 1928 he performed the duties of the president of the People's Deputies Regional Soviet in the North Caucasus. He graduated from Timirjazev Academy in 1931, attended the classes at the Red Professorship Agrarian Institution. He held high responsibility positions for the People's Commissariat in Agriculture and the Administration of People's Economy Bookkeeping and Registration.

He worked as the director of BSNEI in 1940-1941 years. For some after war years he worked for the Damage Evaluation Commission; the Commission had to determine the rate of the damage after the fascist invasion to the Institution's premises, storehouses, equipment, etc. He was not elected as the Rector for the Institution and left Minsk after that.

Efim Nikitich Romanenko (1898-1971) was the director of Belarus State National Economy Institution from 1944 till 1949 years.

He was born to a peasant's family in the village Korma, Gomel region in 1898. He got his education at Mogilev seminary (theological training college). He became a member of the Communist party in 1919.

He joined the west front-line forces during the Civil war. He rose to the rank of the 98th infantry regiment commissar of the Turkmensky Front during the period of the struggle against "basmachi" (thuggery troops in the south of Turkmenia). He worked as a lecturer for Belarus Joined Military School after the Civil war.

E.N. Romanenko graduated from the Planning and Economy Institution in 1932, and then worked for the BSSR State Planning Organs for two years. From 1934 till 1941 he was the senior lecture and the dean for the Planning Faculty. He worked as a History teacher for one of Saratov region's schools, and as a lecture for the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

In the years of 1944 - 1949 he worked as the first after war director of BSNEI, afterwards he worked for ten years more as a senior professor and the head /chair of department.

Her retired in 1959 but still continued working as a part time teacher for the department of Political Economy. He was honoured with the order "Honour Plaque", the medal "For the Devoted Work during the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1945". He died in 1971.

Ivan Ivanovich Trukhan (1915-1991) was the Rector of Belarus State National Economy Institution in 1962 - 1965 years.

He was born to a peasant's family in the village Kamenka, Bobrujsk district in 1915. He graduated from Belarus State National Economy Institution in 1938 and became a post- graduate student at BSU, specializing in economic geography.

During the Great Patriotic War he worked at a secondary school in Penza region, later became the Principal of the Pedagogical College there. He was a student of the Communist Party Higher School in 1944 -1946 years. After graduating he worked as the Chief Editor for the SovInformBuro (the Soviet Union Information Bureau) in the frame of the USSR Soviet of Ministers. He combined that job with the lecturing for Moscow Higher Technical College (MVTU).

After getting his first higher science degree in geography he was transferred to Minsk and worked for BSU in 1949. From 1962 till 1965 he held the duties of the Rector of BSNEI. Starting 1965 he was the director of the Scientific Research Institution in Economy and worked for the State Planning Board of BSSR, afterwards he worked as a professor. He died in 1991.

Sergey Nikolaevich Malinin was the Rector of Belarus State National Economy Institution from 1965 till 1969.

He was born to a family of Bolshevik (a member of the Communist party with many years' length of membership). Before the Great Patriotic War he graduated from BSU, worked for the Economy Institution of the BSSR Academy of Science.

During the war he joined the Army in the field on his own free will. He served as an informer on political questions among solders, he fought at Kalininsky and Western fronts. He was seriously wounded two times.

After demobilization he worked as the assigned director of the BSSR Academy of Science Economy Institution. From 1947 till 1953 he worked as the deputy-head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the BSSR Central Committee and the head of the Science Department of the BSSR Central Committee; later he headed the Finance and Planning Department of the BSSR Central Committee.

S. N. Malinin performed as the head of BSSR GosPlan (State Planning organ) and at the same time the deputy-premier for the Soviet of Ministers of BSSR from 1953 till 1965. He performed his duties as the Rector of BSNEI from 1965 till 1969. He was honoured with the two "Order of the Red Banner of Labour", with the "Red Star Order" and four medals. He became the member of the Communist Party Central Committee several times, had been chosen as a delegate to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. All in all his published scientific works amount to thousands of pages.

Fedor Vasiljevich Borovik was the Rector of Belarus State National Economy Institution from 21st of October, 1969 till the year 1991.

He was born to a peasant's family in the village Ksheli, Gress district in 1923. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he left secondary school and was admitted to the Physics and Mathematics faculty of BGU.

When WW II started, he made an unsuccessful attempt to get evacuated from the scene of war but had to turn back home to his parents' house. Here in the end of the summer of 1941, he met the secretary of Gress Communist Party Underground District Committee, the commissar of 225th partisan brigade, Vladimir Ivanovich Zayats. Zayats was left on the enemy's territory to organize the partisan movement there.

Fedor Borovik started to perform the commissar's orders for reconnaissance. Young Fedor got first conspiracy lessons from his mother Antonina Adamovna, who helped him a lot. He became firstly a messenger and later a full right member for the partisan detachment named after the legendary the Civil war hero Frunze. He got the order to collect military data on the territory of Gress and Slutsk districts. These data helped the partisans perform diversion and sabotage actions, set ambushes.

Starting 1943, F.V. Borovik was transferred to a special destination vanguard under the command of Vaupshasov. He carried out many special reconnaissance orders on there. He served as the Komsomol leader on the 2nd Belarusian front.

After war, in 1946, he was admitted to the Economic Theory faculty as a third year student, he graduated in 1950. He combined an excellent study at the University with very active public service - he had been elected to the Students Professional Labour Union Committee presidency several times.

After graduating he took a postgraduate course at BSU, and having completed it successfully, started his own teacher's career. F.V. Borovik was appointed as the Rector of Belarus State National Economy Institution, he headed this higher educational establishment for more than 20 years.

He was honoured with the "Red Star Order", the two "Order of the Red Banner of Labour", the medal "For Devouted Labour", the two medals "For the Partizan of the Great Patriotic War" of the I degree.

Roman Mikhajlovitch Karseko was the Rector of Belarus State National Economy Institution (BSNEI) starting 1991, he continued heading this higher educational establishment after its transition into the Belarus State Economic University (BSEU) in 1992.

He was born to a peasant's family in the village Alekhnovichy, Stolbtsy district, Minsk region in 1936. He left secondary school in 1953, passed successfully entrance examinations to BSNEI, was admitted to and graduated form the Institution with a distinction diploma in 1957. He started his career as the deputy-director of a shop in the city food stuffs trade chain of Mogilev, later worked as a state trade inspector from 1957 till 1962. R.M. Karseko started his postgraduate study at the Economy Institution of the Science Academy of BSSR in 1962, after graduating, he started as a senior teacher for BSNEI, and then performed as the deputy-dean and the Dean for the Economic Theory Faculty.

In 1979 he got the assignment to perform the duties of the pro-rector in external and evening education, starting 1990 he became the pro-rector in education.

R.M. Karseko became the Rector in 1991, he also is the member of the Board of the Education Ministry and the deputy - president for the Board of the Rectors of Belarus, the member of the Attestation Committee for the President's Administration of Belarus.

R.M. Karseko, professor, first higher degree in Economics, he is the member of the Education Academy of Belarus, Professor Emeritus for the Higher Education of BSSR, exemplary worker for the education system of the Republic of Belarus.

Among his honorary awards are the medal "For Devoted Labour on 100 Jubilee of V.I. Lenin", the certificates of good work from the Supreme Soviet of BSSR (1972) and the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus(1996), on 18 June of 2001 the President of Belarus honoured officially R.M. Karseko for devoted labour.

Vladimir Nikolayevich SHIMOV - Rector of BSEU from 2002 to 2019.

Date and place of birth: November 29, 1948, Ukraine.

Major life milestones:

• 1967 - 1972. - Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).
• 1972 - 1975 - Post Graduate of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces under the USSR State Planning Committee (Moscow).
• 1976 - 1982 - Senior researcher.
• 1976 - 1982 - Senior Researcher, Head of the Department of the Research Institute of Economics and Economic and Mathematical Methods of Planning (NIIEMP) of the Gosplan of the BSSR (Minsk, Gomel).
• 1982-1989 - Associate Professor of the Institute of Economics and Mathematical Methods of Planning of the Gosplan of the BSSR. 1982-1989 - Associate Professor, Head of the Department, Vice-кector for Academic Work at the Gomel Cooperative Institute of the Centrosoyuz.
• 1989 - 1995 - Vice-director of scientific work in Scientific-research Institute of Cooperative Institute of Gomel Cooperative Union.
• 1989 - 1995 - Deputy director for scientific work at the Research Institute of Economics at the Gosplan of BSSR (Ministry of Economics, Minsk).
• 1995 - 1996 - First Deputy Minister of Economics of the Republic of Belarus. - 1995 - 1996 - First Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Belarus.
• 1996-2002 - Minister of Economy of the Republic of Belarus. - From 1996 to 2002 - Minister of Economy of the Republic of Belarus.
• From 2002 - 2019 - Rector of the Belarusian State Economic University.

V.N. Shimov is a doctor of economics (1988), professor (1999), chairman of Republican Council of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of the Republic of Belarus (2003 - 2019), founder and chief editor of scientific and practical magazine "Belarusian Economic Magazine" (1997 - 2019), member of sub-commission for State Prizes in Science and Technology (1999 - 2019), member of Interdepartmental commission for economic security under Belarus Security Council (1998 - 2019), honorary member of Board of Belarusian Economy Ministry (since 2006).

Since 2003 V.N. Shimov has been the chairman of the dissertation council D 02.07.02 on specialities 08.00.05 and 08.00.13 at BSEU.

V.N. Shimov was elected an honorable doctor of the Kiev national economic university named after V.Hetman (2006), an honorable doctor of the Saint Petersburg state economic university (2008), an honorable professor of the Grodno state university named after Ya. Kupala State University of Grodno (2010), Honorary Professor of the Moscow State University of Trade and Economics (2012), Honorary Doctor of the Kiev State University of Trade and Economics (2013), Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (2013), Honorary Professor of the Belarusian Trade and Economic University of Consumer Cooperation (2014), Honorary Professor of the Belarusian State Economic University (2018). He is also a full member of several international public academies.

Professor V.N. Shimov is the author and co-author of 215 scientific and educational and methodological works, including 7 monographs and the textbook "National Economy of Belarus" (5 editions). He is the chief editor of "National Atlas of Belarus" (2002) and "Geographical Atlas of Teachers" (2016). Under his scientific supervision 11 Ph.D. and 6 doctoral dissertations were prepared and defended.

Awards:

Order of the Fatherland III degree (2018), Order of Honor (2007), Honorary title "Honored Educator of the Republic of Belarus" (2011), 5 anniversary medals, Commendations of the President of the Republic of Belarus (1998, 2017), Honorary Diplomas of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus (1998, 2013), Certificate of Honor of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (2013), lapel badge "Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus "For Great Contribution to the Development of Science" (2018).

Vyacheslav Yurievich SHUTILIN - Rector of BSEU from 2019 to 2021.

Born on January 29, 1969 in Ryazan, Russian Federation.

Major life milestones:

• Graduated from the Belarusian State Economic University in 1993.
• From 1987 to 1989 did military service in the armed forces.
• 1993 – 2003 - Lecturer at the Department of Trade with Means of Production at BSEU;
• 2004 – 2008 - Scientific Secretary at BSEU;
• 2008 – 2013 - Head of the Department for Academic Staff Training of Higher Professional Education at BSEU;
• 2013 – 2016 - Doctoral student at BSEU. - Doctoral student at BSEU;
• 2017 – 2018 - Dean of the Faculty of International Economic Relations at BSEU;
• 2018 – 2019 - First vice-rector of Belarusian State Economic University;
• 2019 – 2021 - Rector of Belarusian State Economic University.

Vyacheslav Yurievich - Doctor of Economics (2018), Professor, member of the State Awards Committee of the Republic of Belarus, member of the Interdepartmental Commission on the accession of the Republic of Belarus to the World Trade Organization; member of the expert group on the development of the concept of the National Strategy of Sustainable Development of the Republic of Belarus under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus;

Member of Council on defense of doctoral and candidate dissertations D 02.07.02.

Author of more than 70 scientific and educational works, including two monographs and textbook with the endorsement of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus

Awards:

Honorary Diplomas of BSEU (2003, 2013).

Certificate of Merit of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus (2008).

Gratitude of the Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (2018).