"Balaca İlyas oğlu Əbdürrəhmanov; 1922-1977)" was a prominent soviet and Azerbaijani scientist; geographer, economist; PhD in Geography (1958), assistant professor; junior research fellow at the Department of "Accommodation of Productive forces" in the Institute of Economics of the Azerbaijan SSR Academy of Sciences (1954), later senior research fellow at the Department of "Accommodation of Productive forces" in the Institute of Economics of the Azerbaijan SSR Academy of Sciences (1961); founder and head of "Transport and economic links" department in the Institute of Economics of the Azerbaijan SSR Academy of Sciences (1968); Doctor of Economics (1971), Professor.