IUSSP member since 1990, Anatole Vichnevski died on 15 January, after combatting Covid-19. He would have turned 86 on 1 April. Up to the moment he was struck by this terrible pandemic, he continued his exceptional engagement as director of the Institute of Demography at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University -Moscow), one of the best demographic research centres in Russia. His death is an immense loss for Russian demography.

Anatole Vichnevski was born 1 April 1935 in Kharkov, Ukraine, where he completed his university education and became a statistician. After working for the Ukrainian Institute of Statistics in Kiev, he moved to Moscow in the early 1970s. There, he worked for more than ten years at the department of demographic research at the Statistical Institute.