The Department of Economics and Management of Agro-Industrial Complex Enterprises

Chair of the Department:
Korolev Andrei
Candidate of Economic Science, Associate Professor
The Department of Economics of the AIC and Nature Management was established in 2024 on the basis of the Department of Economics and Management of Agricultural Enterprises and the Department of Economics of Nature Management. It is a graduation department for the training of economic and managerial personnel for food business systems, ensuring their sustainable development in the context of the formation of a digital and circular economy and ESG business transformation.
Head of the Department – Korolev Andrei, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, graduated with honors from the Belarusian State Agrarian University, Academician of the International Academy of Transport. Has experience in management work in educational, scientific and industrial organizations. Sphere of professional interests – development of strategic and operational management systems, application of concepts of sustainable development, KAIZEN and lean manufacturing, theory of constraints for achieving sustainable success by business systems.
Author and co-author of monographs, scientific articles, textbooks and teaching aids on economics and management.
The department employs qualified employees who carry out scientific and educational activities at a high professional level and are experts in the field of economics and management of sustainable business systems.
Specialties
General higher education
• "Economics and management"
specializations
• "Economics and management of food business systems" (since 2025)
• "Economics and management at the enterprise of the agro-industrial complex"
• "Economics of nature management"
qualification "Economist. Manager"
Graduates of specializations successfully work in management positions in state administration and local government bodies, in leading organizations of the agro-food and industrial spheres, in scientific and educational institutions.
Educational activities
Educational and methodological work
1. Modules of the profile "Economics and management of food business systems"
• Social and humanitarian
• Foreign language
• Information technology
• Mathematical
• Statistics and econometrics
• Economics
• Organizational development
• Investments and innovative development of the organization
• Organization and provision of business
• Agrotechnologies and product quality management
• Organization of production and labor
• Business diagnostics of the organization
• Agri-food economics and infrastructure of food business systems
• Planning and management of projects in food business systems
• Development of business activity of the organization
• Financial and commercial activity of the organization
• Economics of entrepreneurship
• Personnel management and communications
• Business systems management
• Technological development and venture financing
• Digital and logistics service
• Ensuring sustainable development and resource efficiency of the organization
• Development of economic systems
2. Modules of the profile "Economics and management at the enterprise of the agro-industrial complex"
• Social and humanitarian
• Foreign language
• Information technology
• Mathematical
• Statistics and econometrics
• Economics
• Organizational development
• Investments and innovative development of the organization
• Organization and provision of business
• Organization of production and labor
• Business diagnostics of the enterprise
• Infrastructure in the agro-industrial complex and agro-food markets
• Standardization and planning of activities in the organization
• Analysis and development of business activity of the enterprise
• Production and commercial activity of the organization
• Economics of entrepreneurship
• Personnel management
• Special functions of management
• Technological development and venture financing
• Provision of environmental and resource-saving activities
• Development of economic systems
3. Modules of the profile "Economics of nature management"
• Social and humanitarian
• Foreign language
• Information technology
• Mathematics
• Statistics and econometrics
• Economics
• Organizational development
• Investments and innovative development of the organization
• Business organization and support
• Organization of production and labor
• Business diagnostics of the enterprise
• Management technologies
• Economy and ecosystem management
• Optimization of environmental policy
• Financial and commercial activities of the organization
• Economics of entrepreneurship
• Personnel management and communications
• Business systems management
• Technological development and venture financing
• Digital and logistics service
• Ensuring sustainable development and resource efficiency of the organization
• Development of economic systems
The department carries out business cooperation with local executive and administrative authorities, leading organizations:
1. Committee for Agriculture and Food of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee
2. Belarusian State Concern of Food Industry "Belgospischeprom"
3. OJSC "Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange"
4. Republican Scientific Unitary Enterprise "Institute for System Research in the Agro-Industrial Complex of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"
5. State Scientific Institution "Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"
6. OJSC "Agrokombinat "Dzerzhinsky"
7. Private Publishing Unitary Enterprise "Our Idea" and others.
Students of the specialized programs have the opportunity to undergo practical training in partner organizations of the department - market leaders.
Research work
The department trains highly qualified scientific personnel in the specialty 08.00.05 "Economics and Management of the National Economy" (postgraduate and doctoral studies, including in the form of a candidate program).
The department participates in the implementation of research work within the framework of the State Program of Scientific Research and the BRFFR, grants of the Ministry of Education.
The main areas of scientific research of the department are issues of ensuring food security, sustainable development of rural areas, the formation of sustainable food business systems, greening of production and environmental management, the development of a digital and circular economy.
At the Republican Scientific Unitary Enterprise "Institute for System Research in the Agro-Industrial Complex of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus" and the State Scientific Institution "Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus", branches of the department have been created and are successfully operating.
The department maintains international relations with the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and Stavropol State Agrarian University.
Scientific research of students of the profiles is carried out within the framework of student research laboratories "Agroeconomics" and "ECOS".
International relations dep.
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-88-32,
email: umoms@bseu.by
International students office:
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-79-71