Mariam Atlas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mariam Atlas | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 3, 1912 Astrakhan Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | August 17, 2006 (aged 94) Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, Russia |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Kazan University Moscow Credit and Economic Institute |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | economics |
| Institutions | Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (1959-2006) State Bank of the USSR |
Mariam Semyonovna Atlas (Russian: Мариам Семёновна Атлас) (January 3, 1912 – August 17, 2006) was a Soviet and Russian economist, full Ph.D. in Economics, professor of Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (1959–2006), Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation,[1] one of the oldest employees of the State Bank of the USSR.[2][3]
Mariam Atlas was born into a family of zemstvo doctor. In the early 1920s, after the death of her father, she moved to Samara where her mother's relatives lived. In 1928, she graduated with honors from a gymnasium and a music college.
In 1933, she graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Kazan University. In 1933–1936 she studied at graduate school of the Moscow Credit and Economic Institute. In 1936–1938, she served as Head of the Loan planning department of the management board of the State Bank of the USSR.
In 1938, she became Senior Lecturer at the Moscow Credit and Economic Institute. In 1941–1943, in evacuation during World War II, she worked as Head of the department in a Gosbank office in the Tatar ASSR. In 1943, she has finally devoted herself to teaching. Since that time, the biography of Atlas is linked with the Moscow Finance Institute (now Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation). She worked very actively until the age of 92 and brought up more than a hundred of PhDs in Economics.[4]
She died in Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, in 2006 and buried at the Moscow's Vvedenskoye Cemetery.[5][6]
