The names of economists among the well-known scholars of the Russian diaspora are rarely mentioned and unjustly remain in the shadows, even though their developments are relevant today.

Alexander Dmitrievich Bilimovich, born in Zhytomyr in 1876, began his teaching and scientific career at Kyiv University, where he worked in the Department of Economics and Statistics until 1918. He defended his dissertation and became a professor. His research focused on the development of agriculture in Russia. Bilimovich supported the reforms of P.A. Stolypin and advocated for the preservation of private land ownership, arguing that agriculture is so individual that with intensification, collective land ownership would disintegrate.

During the Civil War, he supported the Whites and participated in the work of the Special Council under General Denikin. In Southern Russia, he held the position of head of the Department of Agriculture and Land Management, where he developed a draft law that could have become a significant agrarian reform. According to his plan, the main lands were to remain with large private owners, while a smaller portion would be transferred to small and medium peasants to increase the efficiency of their farms through technical rather than land growth.

After the Bolsheviks' victory, Bilimovich emigrated. Until the beginning of World War II, he lived in Yugoslavia, where he taught and became a corresponding member of the Royal Academy for his contributions to Slavic studies. With the arrival of Soviet troops, he moved to West Germany and then to the USA, where he worked at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of California. Alexander Dmitrievich passed away in December 1963 in Monterey. Until his last days, he continued to engage in public and scientific activities, preparing a book on the world economy and the development of Russia in the event of the fall of Bolshevism.