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BARANSKII, NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH (Geographer) 



N. N. Baranskii was born July 26, 1881. In 1901, he was 

 expelled from Tomsk University for participating in a student 

 political strike. Since that time, he became a professional 

 revolutionary. In the fall of 1905, he was chosen as a delegate 

 of the Siberian Bolsheviks to the Irkutsk Conference of the 

 Siberian Social Democratic Union. He graduated from the 

 Moscow Commercial Institute in 1914. In 1915, he was a board 

 member of the People's Commissars of Worker -Peasant In- 

 spection. In 1918, he began to study economic geography which 

 arose in opposition to the then predominant statistical branch 

 method. He has been awarded the title Honored Scientist of the 

 R.S.F.S.R. in 1943. In 1939 he was elected to the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member. He is a 

 member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 



Baranskii considers the main object of investigations in 

 economic geography to be not the branches of economics but 

 economic regions. In economic-geographic studies of various 

 countries he stresses the internal space difference; he placed 



