Valery Tereshchenko

Valery Ivanovich Tereshchenko (also V. J. Tereshtenko) (Russian: Валерий Иванович Терещенко; Ukrainian: Валерій Іванович Терещенко; 13 June 1901 – 28 September 1994) was a Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian academic specialising in the field of management.

Early life and education Valery Tereshchenko was born in the city of Ekaterinodar (now Krasnodar), in the family of a deputy district judge. He completed high school and conservatory studies in his hometown, and after the outbreak of the Russian Civil War was mobilised into the ranks of the Whites. Following their defeat by the Bolsheviks, Tereshchenko emigrated to Prague, where he graduated from the Department of Economics of the Czech Technical University and from the Russian Institute for Agricultural Cooperation, teaching at the latter in the late 1920s. In 1930, he moved to the United States, where he graduated from Columbia University in New York.

Career In the United States, Tereshchenko worked in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, at a Wall Street firm, as a counsellor of the American businessman Roswell Garst, and teaching management courses at Columbia. In 1937, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Tereshchenko organized and led a large, 160-employee research project to study the world's literature on cooperatives, which was published 12 languages. The work was conducted in close collaboration with the Co-operative League of America, the International Cooperative Alliance in London, the International Labour Office in Geneva, and the Rockefeller Committee for Relations with South America. The Library of Congress assessed the materials collected by project as "the most complete in the world" at that time. The Fundamental Project Edition, Summaries of laws on cooperatives in the U.S., was used to revise the cooperative laws in some states. In April 1940, Tereshchenko was invited to Committee of the Senate on cooperatives legislation. He and other project employees later took part in the establishment of initial economic ties between the U.S. and the Republic of China (1942−1949). In the 1940s, Tereshchenko was also invited to organize a section on cooperatives at the Latin American Institute in Boston and was initiator…Citește mai mult

Personal life and honours Tereshchenko died September 28, 1994. His remains are buried in Kyiv, at the Baikove Cemetery. He was given an honorary award by UNESCO, and awarded an honorary diploma by the Missouri Writers Guild in the U.S.

Selected works The problem of cooperative medicine - New York City: Works Progress Administration, 1940 Cooperative Education – New York City: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941 Bibliographical review of literature on legal phases of cooperation - New York City: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941 Bibliographical review of literature on cooperation in Latin America - New York City: Work Projects Administration, 1942 American-Soviet Trade Relations: Past and Future - New York City, 1945 (with V. P. Timoshenko.) Industrial cooperative in the Post-War Ukraine in The American Slavic and East European Review (1951), vol. 1, pages 26-37. Industrial cooperatives in the Ukrainian S.S.R. in Annals of Collective Economy (1951), vol. 2, pages 205-212.