Valerian Osinsky

Valerian Obolensky-Ossinsky (1887-1938) was Professor of the Agricultural Academy of Moscow.

Valerian wrote under the name Nikolai Osinsky, and was active amongst the Democratic Centralists.

He was the first chairperson of the Vesenka.

He attended the World Social Economic Conference organised by the International Institute of Industrial Relations held at the Vereeniging Koloniaal Institute in Amsterdam. This was the first occasion that Soviet officials had travelled to the West to discuss how the Five Year Plan worked.

His daughter Svetlana Valerianovna Obolenskaya (1925-2012) was a Russian historian.

He was executed during the Great Purge in 1938.