The International N. D. Kondratiev Foundation is an economic research organization founded in 1992 at an international conference devoted to the centenary of the birth of Nikolai Kondratiev

Nikolai Kondratiev

Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kondratiev , Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев , was a Russian economist, who was a proponent of the New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union....

. The foundation is accredited by the Department of Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences

Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....

. The founding (and now honorary) president was Leonid Abalkin

Leonid Abalkin

Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin was a Russian economist. He was born in Moscow and became director of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986. A member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR with special responsibility for economic affairs...

, with A.A.Nikonov, Yu.V.Yakovets, G.Pallavicini (Italy), and Yakob van Dein (Netherlands) as vice-presidents.

The foundation has three basic activities:

1. Carrying out international conferences, symposia, Kondratieff readings;
2. Coordinating interdisciplinary research performed on the orders of the state organizations and according to the plans of the foundation itself
3. Conducting jointly with the Russian Academy of Sciences
   Russian Academy of Sciences
   The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
   
    international competitions for the N.D. Kondratieff gold, silver, and bronze medals for contributions to the development of the social sciences, and the commemorative N.D. Kondratieff medal for young scientists

Kondratiev medals

In 1993 the foundation and the Russian Academy of Sciences established gold, silver, and bronze medals in honour of Kondratiev. These are awarded every three years after a competition. Three are awarded to local and three to foreign scientists for their contribution to the development of social sciences.

Medal winners

1995: S.Y. Glazyev and Wilhelm Krelle

Wilhelm Krelle

Wilhelm Krelle was a German economist. He was born in Magdeburg, Germany. After returning from WWII, he studied physics, mathematics and economics in Tübingen and Freiburg. He received his Ph.D. in economics from University of Freiburg in 1948. His thesis advisor was Walter Eucken...

 (Germany) - gold medal; A.I. Subetto and C. Marchetti (Italy) - silver medal; V.K. Faltsman and I.M. Abramov (Belarus) - bronze medals.

1998: V. Yakovets, G.Pallavicini (Italy), and Michael Ellman

Michael Ellman

Michael Ellman has been a professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam since 1978. He has written extensively on the economics of the Soviet Union, transition economics, Russia and comparative economic systems.- Prizes and honours :* Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Economic...

 (The Netherlands) - gold medal; V. Gusarov, and P. Malyaska (Finland) - silver medal; T.G. Semenkova, A.V. Semenkov, and A.E. Kulinkovich (Ukraine) - Bronze medal.

2001: I.V. Bestuzhev-Lada and I. Lukin (Ukraine) - gold medal; V.T. Ryazanov - silver medal; N.A. Makasheva, W. Barnett (UK), and W. Samuels (USA) - bronze medals.

2004: A.G. Granberg, B.N. Kuzyk and I. Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein is a US sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst...

 (USA) - gold medal; P.A. Minakir and Tessaleno Devezas

Tessaleno Devezas

Tessaleno Campos Devezas is a physicist, systems theorist, and materials scientist known by his contributions to the long waves theory in socioeconomic development, technological evolution, as well as world system analysis.-Awards:In March 2002 Devezas was honored with the “Elsevier Best Paper...

 (Portugal) - silver medal; L.V. Leskov, and D.K. Chistilin (Ukraine) - Bronze medal.

2007: Ruslan Grinberg, A.J. Rubinstein, and Shuchen Liu (China) - gold medal; V.I. Kushlin, Christopher Freeman

Christopher Freeman

Christopher Freeman was an English economist, the founder and first director of Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, and one of the most eminent modern Kondratiev wave and business cycle theorists...

 (England), and Paul JJ Welfens (Germany) - silver medal; V.D. Andrianov, V. Klin - bronze medals.