Empirical problems with the H-O model, such as the Leontief paradox, were noted in empirical tests by Wassily Leontief who found that the United States tended to export labor-intensive goods despite having an abundance of capital.

In 1953, Wassily Leontief published a study in which he tested the validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory.

* February 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1906 )

* Economics – Wassily Leontief

Wassily Leontief made a study of the theory that seemed to invalidate it.

Continuing his education at Harvard University, he received a Master's degree in 1951 in Mathematics and started working with Howard Aiken and Wassily Leontief.

Howard Aiken had developed the Harvard Mark I, one of the first large-scale digital computers, while Wassily Leontief was an economist who was developing the input-output model of economic analysis, work for which he would later receive the Nobel prize.

* Wassily Leontief ( 1905 – 1999 ), economist, Nobel Prize for economics in 1973

Wassily Leontief was born on August 5, 1905, in Munich, Germany, the son of Wassily W. Leontief ( professor of Economics ) and Slata ( later Evgenia, called Genya ) Leontief ( née Becker ).

To that end, Wassily Leontief did much to make quantitative data more accessible, and more indispensable, to the study of economics.

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Simultaneously he worked as the president of newly created Wassily Leontief Center for research in economics.

* Wassily Leontief 1973

Wassily Leontief ( 1906-1999 ) developed this type of analysis and took the Nobel Prize in Economics for his development of this model.

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Other Nobel laureates like Kenneth Arrow in 1972, Wassily Leontief in 1973, and Harry Markowitz in 1990 are well known names in math programming.

In 2007, he was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.

The group was founded by a number of Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc, August Macke and Gabriele Münter.

Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, Gabriele Münter, Lyonel Feininger, Albert Bloch and others formed the group in response to the rejection of Kandinsky's painting Last Judgement from an exhibition.

43 works by 14 artists were shown: paintings by Henri Rousseau, Albert Bloch, David Burliuk, Wladimir Burliuk, Heinrich Campendonk, Robert Delaunay, Elisabeth Epstein, Eugen von Kahler, Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, Jean Bloé Niestlé and Arnold Schönberg, and an illustrated catalogue edited.

In 1911, Marc was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter ( The Blue Rider ), and was the center of a circle of German and Russian expatriate artists with August Macke, Wassily Kandinsky and several others whose works were seminal to the development of German Expressionism.

The museum also displays masterpieces of German Expressionism: representing painters of two early 20th century German artist groups, Die Brücke ( The bridge ) and Der Blaue Reiter ( The blue rider ), whose members included, among others, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde and Franz Marc, August Macke, Paul Klee, Alexej von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky.

These " modernist " landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

In Munich he met Wassily Kandinsky and various other Russian artists, and he contributed to the formation of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München.

In 1912 Gabo transferred to an engineering school in Munich where he discovered abstract art and met Wassily Kandinsky and in 1913-14 joined his brother Antoine ( who by then was an established painter ) in Paris.

He was fired because his work was deemed unsuitable by the Nazis, with the result that several works were in the infamous exhibition of " degenerate art " in Munich in 1937, along with that of other Bauhaus artists, among them Herbert Bayer, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer and Lothar Schreyer.

Among early modernist non-literary landmarks is the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the Expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Expressionist Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

In 1911 Marc founded the Der Blaue Reiter journal, which became the center of an artist circle with Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and others who decided to split off from the Neue Künstlervereinigung ( New Artist's Association ) movement.

Theosophical concepts can be seen in the work of Sergei Bulgakov ( 1877-1945 ), Nikolai Berdyaev ( 1874-1945 ), Leopold Ziegler ( 1881-1958 ), Valentin Tomberg ( 1901-1973 ), Auguste-Edouard Chauvet ( 1885-1955 ), Wassily Kandinsky ( 1866-1944 ), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ( 1888-1975 ) and Henry Corbin ( 1903-1978 ).

* Wassily Kandinsky, M. T. Sadler ( Translator ), Adrian Glew ( Editor ).

In the 20th century, painter Fritz Faiss ( 1905 – 1981 ), a student of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, together with Dr. Hans Schmid, rediscovered the so-called " Punic wax " technique of encaustic painting.

The Cocteau exhibition was followed by exhibitions on Wassily Kandinsky ( his first one-man-show in England ), Yves Tanguy, Wolfgang Paalen and several other well-known and some lesser-known artists.

* Composition VI ( 1913 ), by Wassily Kandinsky

The first collegium was headed by Vladimir Tatlin and included Kasimir Malevich, I. Mashkov ( И. Машков ), N. Udaltsova ( Н. Удальцова ), O. Rozanova ( О. Розанова ), Alexander Rodchenko, Wassily Kandinsky.

At the invitation of Wassily Kandinsky, Delaunay joined The Blue Rider ( Der Blaue Reiter ), a Munich-based group of abstract artists, in 1911, and his art took a turn for the abstract Delaunay was also successful in Germany, Switzerland, and Russia.

* Wassily Kandinsky ( 1866 – 1944 ), painter

Wassily de Basil ( 1880 – 27 July 1951 ), usually referred to as Colonel W. de Basil, was a Russian ballet impresario.

* Sounds ( Klänge ), an artist's book by Wassily Kandinsky

Given that many of these avant-garde artists were born or grew up in what is present day Belarus and Ukraine ( including Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Ekster, Vladimir Tatlin, Wassily Kandinsky, David Burliuk, Alexander Archipenko ), some sources also talk about Ukrainian avant-garde.

It was this academy which Gropius transformed into the world famous Bauhaus, attracting a faculty that included Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Bartning and Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (, Vasiliy Vasil ’ yevich Kandinskiy, ; – 13 December 1944 ) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist.

The city was also the birthplace of the Bauhaus movement, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, with artists Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, and Lyonel Feininger teaching in Weimar's Bauhaus School.

In the United States, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky.

This econometric find was the result of Professor Wassily W. Leontief's attempt to test the Heckscher-Ohlin theory empirically.

His variant of Wassily Leontief's Input-output model, the Mahalanobis model, was employed in the Second Five Year Plan, which worked towards the rapid industrialization of India and with other colleagues at his institute, he played a key role in the development of a statistical infrastructure.

Vasily Ilyich Safonov (, also known as Wassily Safonoff ; 6 February 185227 February 1918 ) was a Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer.

His uncle was the abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky, about whose work he would write an influential essay in 1936.

Eckbo was also influenced by the works of several abstract painters, including Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and Kasimir Malevich.

The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany.

Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty.

The chair became known as " Wassily " decades later, when it was re-released by an Italian manufacturer named Gavina who had learned of the anecdotal Kandinsky connection in the course of its research on the chair's origins.