When you write about this man, it begs the epithet the ‘first’. Indeed, the operations and methods, he first tested in practice, were then successfully implemented in the clinic. These are various operations performed in the baro-operative mode of remote control, electrical isolation of the left auricle, cardiac denervation, modeling heart defects of the blue and pale types, etc. From the newest methods – cryoablation, fulguration, laser photoablation, now widely used not only in our country, but also abroad. Leo Antonovich became a pioneer in the use of computer methods in diagnostics, in modeling pathology of the circulatory system, gas exchange, arrhythmias. He developed a new method, introduced it, and performed about 2,000 open-heart surgeries for tachyarrhythmias. How to be in time to do everything without undermining your health, how not to reinvent the wheel, but invent many useful things, and also about where love is concentrated in the human heart, and about much else – conversation with Leo A. Bockeria, director of the Bakulev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery.

Continuing the stories of V.P. Chichkanov – the principles of life and work, basis of success and reasons for failure of the People’s Artist of the USSR I.D. Kobzon, USSR President M.S. Gorbachev, Assistant to the President of the USSR V.K. Yegorov and Chairman of Vnesheconombank Board S.N. Gor’kov.

Based on the international scale of levels of readiness of technology developed a typology of research readiness levels. When forming the priority, promising areas of research proposed to take into account the typology of research levels of readiness. It is shown that the detail stages of innovation cycle most relevant to its middle levels.

Continuation of the chronicle of events related to the Munich conspiracy of 1938.

The present article dwells on the author’s methodology of managing the competitiveness of a machine-building complex at the micro level, that is, at the enterprise level. According to the author, introduction of new progressive tools and management principles in each particular enterprise will allow not only to increase significantly competitiveness of the machine-building complex as a whole, but also to elaborate successful long-term strategy for the economy development.

In May 2018 the Decree of the RF President formulated the task: an increase in labour productivity at the enterprises of basic non-primary sectors of the economy by at least 5% per year. Obviously, key performance indicators (KPIs) of companies with state participation should include this indicator. But this is hampered by imperfection of both the methods of calculating the indicator itself and the calculating methodology for the integral indicator of the companies’ KPI. In the article, the author cites a number of inaccuracies (defaults) in the traditional calculation of labour productivity and suggests a new approach to its calculation.

Opening address of editor-in-chief.

On September 28 in Russia there is a professional holiday — Day of the nuclear industry worker. The domestic nuclear industry since its foundation in 1945 was one of the most important for the country — for defense, for power engineering and for other branches of the economy as well. Of course, behind the industry achievements there is the heroic work of hundreds of thousands of nuclear scientists, of the whole country. But there are some iconic figures, starting with Kurchatov and his colleagues, who guided the solution of grand objectives and added many glorious pages in the Russian and world history. Their personal biographies are largely interlaced with chronology of the nuclear industry development. Among these people there are also “atomic” ministers of different years. Today we are talking to Lev Dmitrievich Ryabev, the Soviet and Russian state and economic figure, Minister of Medium Machine Building of the USSR, deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, winner of the USSR and the RF State Prizes, active participant in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and construction at the earliest possible time of the Shelter Object, awarded the highest awards of the country. We will talk about the history of the nuclear industry, its achievements, problems and prospects, as well as about the qualities that allow to solve successfully the key tasks set by the country’s leadership.

Today, the narratives of V.P. Chichkanov are dedicated to the success stories of strong-willed persons, amazing people — His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, Nobel Prize winner in physics Zh.I. Alferov, director of the Federal Bailiff Service of the Russian Federation D.V. Aristov and the General Director of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company A.A. Kozitsyn.

The article, for the first time in the domestic economic literature, presents results of the institutional-economic analysis of the unique phenomenon of the new technological order economy — digital platforms (DPs). Digital platform is positioned by the authors as a mediatory transaction institute (organizational attractor), functioning in a hybrid reality. Given the innovative nature of unique features inherent in the digital platforms and the lack of academic research on this topic, it can be stated that DPs are of particular interest for economic science and business practices.