Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov

Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov (Александр Иванович Чупров; 1841–1908) was a professor of political economy and statistics at Moscow University whose lectures provided the standard introduction to economics for late 19th-century Russian students.

Alexander attended the Law Department of the Moscow University where he became interested in Wilhelm Roscher's research.

He founded the Moscow Society to Disseminate Technical Knowledge in 1869 and was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1887.

[2] Chuprov became known as "the heart and soul" of zemstvo statistical investigations and sample surveys in the Russian Empire.

Their mission was to provide a modern statistical description of the Russian peasant commune, or obschina.