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Presents the Concise Dictionary of Business Logistics (CDBL) published in Russia in 1995. The CDBL with its 900 entries is both an A to Z reference work and a Russian language terminological glossary. Most of the entries are thoroughly cross‐referenced to provide complete coverage in inventory control, traffic management, insurance of commercial risks, waste recycling, storage techniques, mathematical foundations of logistics, etc. All the terms defined in the CDBL have English equivalents which have been grouped into an alphabetically arranged index of English terms. Makes an attempt to define some of the fundamental concepts of logistics (material flow, logistical channel, logistical chain). Raises the problem of translation of the logistics terms unique to the command‐directed economies.

Presents a history of logistical planning in the USSR and Russia from 1920‐1992. Describes in detail the functions of the centralized distribution system created in the course of Brezhnev‐Kosygin reforms (1965) and dismantled in 1991; a chronology of changes in distribution of producer goods in 1991‐1992 and explains why the newest are less effective than the dismantled distribution systems. Analyses some of the most important aspects of the Federal purchasing system which is being created in Russia (since October 1992). The core of this system will be two joint‐stock purchasing companies (Roskontrakt and Roskhlebo‐produkt) established as state‐owned agencies. The Concise Dictionary of Business Logistics (out of print in Moscow in 1994) is presented – the first Russian‐language logistical glossary, in which 1,000 terms are defined.