Dmitry Pikhno



Dmitry Pikhno (January 13, 1853–1913) was a Russian nationalist, economist, jurist-professor, journalist, landowner, and politician (conservative).

Pikhno was born at khutor (farmstead) Nesterovka, Chigirin uyezd, Kiev Governorate. As a student of Nikolai von Bunge, in 1874 he graduated the Kiev University with a degree of candidate of juridical sciences and was a head of the student juridical club. In 1877 Pikhno was a docent, and since 1885 an extraordinary and in 1888-1901 an ordinary professor of the Kiev University department of political science and statistics. He advocated economic theories of the English classical school, theoretician of market competition, capitalist rationalization of industry and agrarian economy, and author of a number of scientific works.

Professor at the Kiev University. Member of State Council (1907–1913), belonged to its right-wing group. Editor of Kievlianin, the nationalist daily newspaper, published in Kiev.