CREDIT-ECONOMIC INSTITUTE OF THE STATE BANK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010100400010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 23, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRA fN fELL1GEI E AGENCY REPORT N0.
NrO tMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USS `(Moscow)
by. the Ministry of Finance.
SUBJECT Credit-Economic.-nstitute of the State Bank N0: OF PAGES 2
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was located in a large modern building on Yaroslavskoye Shosse, part of
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i- ThP (it-Economic Institute (Kreditno_Ekonoricheski Institut) in Mosco
2. The Credit-Economic Institute was divided into to departments:
The department,of internal banking trained st.udents for futur
positions with the State Bank. Upon bomplet"ion of their cour
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the students were offered positions with the blast branehe
the State Bank.
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b. The department of international banking trained students for positions
with Soviet commercial organizations abroad.--An extensive course in
foreign languages was included in'the program of this department.
Special recommendations were required for admission to the department
of international banking, and very few students of Jewish extraction
were admitt ed .
that.Russian science led the world.
3. Among the faculty members of the Credit-Economic Institute were
included:
a. 4ofessor Chernov, Director of the Institute in 1945-1946. Chernov
was a man of about 50, had a pleasant disposition, and was well
disposed toward the foreign students of the Institute. g8 was of the
opinion that Soviet high schools were inferior to those of"Europe.
b Professor Polyakov, whose field was mathematics. , and
an ardent Communist who was also a Rassian national ht
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e. Dr. Artemeva, an attractive woman of about 40 who lectured in geography.
She had a low opinion of the Soviet studentst knowledge of her
subject, and favored foreign students. She never.introduced.any
,political topics into her lectures.
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d. Professor Smirnov, whose subject was market economy (tovaroznavstvo).
His classes were very large and he did not know his students. Smirnov
always avoided political digressions in his lectures.
e. Arno (sic), an assistant in market economy. He conducted laboratory
classes, and also .avoided political expression.
4.'In the internal banking department of the Institute the ratiofiof male
students to female was about five to one, while in the international
banking department the ratio was one to one. The majority of the students
were from Moscow or its immediate vicinity. There were a few Spanish
students, loyalists who had taken refuge in the USSR, and a small number
of Poles, most of f.3,,fieiet. A majority of both the faculty
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