The beginning of the twentieth century, when revolutionary sentiments raged in Russia, created a breeding ground for people of an adventurous character and type of activity. Such an unusual person as Yakov Samoilovich Ulitsky also fell into this cohort. In historical reports, he is better known as an economist, demographer and statistician.
Biography
The future Soviet scientist was born at the end of the nineteenth century, in 1891, on April 8, in the small town of Rzhishchev, Kiev province.
The prosperous Jewish family, in which Yakov was born, did not know troubles and difficulties, since the father of the family, Shmil Ioselevich, had his own flour mill and rented river barges. In those years, it was not customary for women to work, so Sophia, the mother of six children, the eldest of whom was Yakov, was engaged only in housework and children.
Education
At school, Yakov showed a variety of talents. He was the editor of the school's hectographic magazine, was fond of music and choral singing. At the same time, Yakov always liked to immerse himself in the study of those subjects with which his inquisitive mind was occupied. When he graduated from the Kiev Commercial Institute in 1914, he was attracted by musicology and conducting. Simultaneously with the study of the theory and history of music, the young scientist writes his first monograph on the organization of production processes. Scientific works were temporarily interrupted - Yakov Ulitsky was drafted into the army. It was a revolutionary year 1917.
Revolutionary creativity
Ulitsky's career took off. He got to the very peak of the revolution and got to work at the People's Commissariat of Labor in Kiev. The political views of Yakov Ulitsky belonged to the Menshevik trend. He actively participated in the activities of the Socialist-Revolutionary-Menshevik organizations in Ukraine. In 1919, a wave of Jewish pogroms swept across Ukraine, in which the Ulitsky family also suffered - brother Lazar was killed. Due to the unfavorable situation, Yakov Ulitsky leaves for Moscow, where he finds himself a job at the People's Commissariat of Post and Telegraph. He researches statistics and management theory, and is a frequent contributor to economic journals. He developed his own view of management theory, he was close to the social and labor concept of the principles of organizing the labor process.
In the thirties, a party purge began in the organizations and Yakov Ulitsky, as a former Menshevik, was arrested and deported from the capital of the USSR. He was sent to Stalingrad, where he worked at a tractor plant. Yakov did not lose heart and even in exile did what he loved - he created an orchestra and a choir from the factory workers at the plant. His fate was inexorable. For participation in Trotskyist organizations, Yakov Ulitsky received a second sentence and was sent to Biysk. Here he had to work in different guises - accountant, pianist, teacher of foreign languages. The young scientist did not lose heart in exile. When the term of imprisonment ended, Yakov returned to Moscow and took up science seriously. His choice fell on demographic statistics. It was a good choice - in the year the war ended, the scientist passes the candidate's minimum, and then successfully defends the candidate. Ulitsky's place of work was the Correspondence Financial Institute.
Ulitsky's explosive energy did him a disservice. His interest in Zionism led to another arrest and exile to Kalinin.
Personal life
For all the adventurousness of his actions, Yakov Ulitsky managed to create a strong family. He became the husband of Maria Petrovna Galperina, who bore him a wonderful son.
Father's talents also manifested themselves in Evgeny Yakovlevich Ulitsky, who was engaged in technical sciences, developed agricultural units. Evgeny Yakovlevich became the author of several monographs and useful inventions.
Yakov Ulitsky died at the age of 65 on October 3, 1956.
