Valery Tereshchenko (academic)

Valeriy Ivanovich Tereshchenko died 28 September 1994, buried in Kyiv, the Baikove Cemetery.

He is author of over 170 books, papers and articles in periodical on the management problems, which were printed in the United States, Argentina, Bulgaria, India, Canada, Germany, Peru, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland. In 1970 a Moscow company published a reduced version of the multi-volume American "Executive Leadership Course" (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963) edited by Valeriy Tereshchenko.

Returning to the Soviet Union−Ukraine, and lived in Kyiv since 1963. Here he worked in a number of research institutes – of Ministry of Agricultural Economics and of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, and taught at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

After the Second World War Tereshchenko came to the USSR for business trips, to help to establish trade and economic ties with the U.S. In 1946 he was chief economist UNRRA in Ukraine.

He along with other employees of the project took part in the establishment of initial economic ties between the U.S. and the Republic of China (1942−1949).

In the 1940s he was invited to organize a section on cooperative in the Latin American Institute in Boston, he was initiator of the first ever visit delegation of cooperators South America to the United States.

In 1937, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Tereshchenko organized and led a large (160 employees) 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 this regard, in April 1940 Valeriy Tereshchenko was invited to Committee of the Senate on cooperatives legislation.

In 1930 moved to the United States, and graduated from Columbia University in New York. Later he became a professor at Columbia, where he taught management courses.

He was born in Ekaterinodar (now – Krasnodar), Imperial Russia, the son of deputy district judge. In Ekaterinodar he graduated from high school and conservatory, and in Prague graduated from the Department of Economics of the Czech Technical University and Institute for Agricultural Cooperation, where he taught in the latter 1920s.

Valery Ivanovich Tereshchenko (Russian: Валерий Иванович Терещенко; 13 June 1901 – 28 September 1994) was a Russian−Soviet academic and writer in the fields of management.