the stimulating value of this innovation (long known in Europe and America) for the development of classes and economic life, for replenishing state coffers. Ozerov had his own ("non-partisan") program for the recovery of the Russian budget, which was mainly fed by consumption taxes. It provided for a redistribution of the tax burden in favor of the poor and a wider taxation of inheritances, review of official salary rates for senior officials, stopping the pernicious practices of unspoken budgets, strengthening the state control system and turning it into an effective force, nurturing conscientiousness with Russian taxpayers. In the book "How People's Money Is Spent in Russia" (1908), Ozerov writes: Urban planning In 1906 he published the book “Big Cities, Their Tasks and Management Tools”, becoming one of the founders of the theory of urban planning. Criticized Russian cities compared to European ones for backwardness of transport communications. Writing activities At the beginning of the 20th century, under the pseudonym Z. Ikhorov published the artistic works "Confession of a Man", "Notes of a Suicide", "Songs of a Homeless Man". Commercial activity In 1911, Ozerov was invited to the board of the Russian-Asian Bank A. I. Putilov. Then Ozerov in the "Russian Word" published an article about the speculation of Russian banks, for which all members of the board took up arms against him, and he was forced to leave the bank. Ozerov was a shareholder and board member of the Lena gold mines, the Erivan cement plant, the Tula land bank, the Khanzhonkov joint-stock company, the Russian paper-processing factory, the Sytin publishing house, the Lapshin match factory and others. offered I. D. Sytin cooperation for publishing his own newspaper in order to "gain influence on the formation of public opinion in our country", however, Sytin did not want to quarrel with the government, which gave orders for printing textbooks. Shortly before the February Revolution, Ozerov bought up the shares of the Erinsky cement plant for 105 rubles, and then sold them for 300, earning more than 1 million rubles. Lifestyle I.Kh. Ozerov walked in the same clothes for years, did not chic in restaurants, traveled in second grade. However, this did not prevent him from giving in to various temptations: “he did not mind, in his words,“ drink and take a walk with ballerinas, ”he tried drugs, wrote screenplays for A. A. Khanzhonkov". In 1911, he bequeathed all of his capital