On February 15, 2012, a prominent scientist, a well-known Africanist, Boris Borisovich Runov, who worked for about fifty years at the Institute of Africa of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS), passed away. B. B. Runov was born in 1931 in Moscow. In 1956 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of MGIMO University of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1961, he entered full-time postgraduate studies at the Institute of Africa of the USSR Academy of Sciences, after which he defended his PhD thesis in 1965 on the topic "The activities of United Africa during the collapse of the colonial system in Africa". B. B. Runov worked at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1964 (as a senior researcher since 1967). In 1969, he was awarded the scientific title of senior researcher. Since 2004-Leading researcher. From 1974 to 1979, he led the Group on the Impact of the Scientific and Technological Revolution (STD) on African countries, and from 1988 to 1998, he was head of the Sector of Global Problems of our time. Over the years of his fruitful activity, B. B. Runov has published many scientific works. The main area of his research is the impact of the world scientific and technological revolution on the socio - economic development of African countries. For the first time in Russian literature, B. B. Runov summarized and included in scientific circulation materials on the impact of scientific and technological progress on socio-economic processes in Africa. The first work on this topic was published in 1967 in the collective monograph "The Anti-Imperialist Revolution in Africa". page 218 B. B. Runov was distinguished by his deep erudition and comprehensive approach to the problems under study. He studied, in particular, such aspects as the impact of scientific and technological development on the formation and use of labor resources in Africa, the specifics of the formation of national scientific and technical potentials and the role of the stat ... Read more