Kitov Akhmed Ismailovich (1928-2005)
Founder of economic psychology in Russia.
Honored
Scholar of the Russian Federation, Doctor of psychology, professor Kitov Akhmed
Ismailovich was born on 31 of August, 1928 in Zeyuko Habezsky region. In 1948
he worked as a teacher of physics and was called up for military service in the
army. He was transferred to the reserve in 1974 with the rank of colonel.
During his
teaching activities he opened and led new departments:
In the
Academy of Ministry of the Interior USSR –Managerial psychology department
In the
Industrial Academy – Economic psychology department
In the
Karachaevo-Cherkess State Technological Academy, where he was invited by the
Government of the Republic – Management and Marketing department.
He worked as
lecture and researcher for 55 years and published numerous books. He was the
first to publish "Managerial psychology” textbook for higher education, monograph
”Psychology of economic management” (1984), "Economic psychology” (1987), 18
tutorials and many articles in scientific journals.
As a head of
the delegation of scientists, as well as government delegation he attended
international scientific conferences in Switzerland, Bulgaria, Germany and
Vietnam. His works were translated into English, German, French, Swedish,
Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic, Czech and Vietnamese. Some of his works are
represented in the library of the Congress. He was a scientific advisor of 30 PhDs.
In the late
80s he founded and headed Association of Economic Psychologists in the Soviet
Union.
In Karachaevo-Cherkess
republic, Kitov founded Scientific Society to encourage researches from different
fields to develop their relations. Being the head of republic branch of Russian
Psychological Society, Kitov participated with media to provide innovations in
economy.
Kitov was
honored with 12 Government awards.