Nikolay Kolosovsky

Kolosovskiy was born in a family of Nizhny Novgorod Fair employee.

In 1916, he graduated from Petersburg University of Means of Communication and worked at construction of railways in Transbaikal region.

In the years 1921–1931, he worked in Gosplan where was engaged in division of USSR into economic districts, working out of schemes of studying and development of resources of Siberia and the Far East (Uralo-Kuznetsk industrial complex, the Trans-Siberian superhighway, Angarostroi).

In the years 1931–1936, Kolosovskiy worked in Hydroproject, where he developed the project of power-industrial complex at Angara river.

Kolosovskiy entered such concepts into scientific practice as the power-production cycle (set of the manufactures united by communications on raw materials and energy), a territorial and production complex (set of manufactures from which placing on one platform additional economic benefit is reached).