Milestones of the life path 

She was born on September 23, 1923 in Nalchik in the family of Vasily Andreevich Golovko and Maria Georgievna Garshina.

In 1943 she entered the Kabardino-Balkarian Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Mathematics, then transferred to the Faculty of Literature. In the second year I got acquainted with the "Fundamentals of General Psychology" by S.L. Rubinstein, became interested in psychology. In December 1945 she transferred to study at the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen. The difference in programs between the two universities (ten disciplines) passed during the winter session and received a scholarship. After graduating from the institute (June 1947), she was recommended by the Academic Council of the Faculty of Literature for postgraduate studies in psychology.

In September 1947, she passed the entrance exams to two graduate schools: to the Department of Psychology of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen and the Leningrad branch of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR to the graduate school of the Department of Pedagogical Psychology, headed by B.G. Ananiev, a follower of the scientific school of V.M. Bekhterev, a graduate of the graduate school of the Institute of the Brain, created by Academician V.M. Bekhterev in 1918, at the age of 27 he published the monograph "Psychology of Pedagogical Assessment", at the age of 33 he defended his doctoral dissertation in history psychology in Russia by S.L. Rubinstein. 

  In the spring of 1948, B.G. Ananiev formulated Kuzmina N.V. the topic of his Ph.D. thesis "Psychological and pedagogical analysis of difficulties and successes in the work of a young primary school teacher." She defended her dissertation on 15.03.1951 at the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen.

After graduating from graduate school (November 1950 to July 1953)  headed the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology at the Velsk Teachers' Institute of the Arkhangelsk Region. 

From 1956 to 1984 she worked at Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov. The monograph "Formation of pedagogical abilities" (Leningrad State University, 1961), which allowed the head of the department. From 1963 to 1965, Professor A.G. Kovalev was sent to Nina Vasilievna for doctoral studies. The theme of the doctoral thesis was formulated by B.G. Ananiev - "The psychological structure of the teacher's activity and the formation of his personality." 

  The objects of the study were 1227 teachers of different levels of productivity. This turned out to be possible thanks to the author's created scales for measuring educational reality, methods and procedures for research according to the schemes of fundamental sciences. Then the foundations of fundamental acmeology were laid. She defended her dissertation in psychological sciences. The Higher Attestation Commission awarded the degree of Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences.

From 1969 to 1984 she headed the Department of Pedagogy and Educational Psychology. From 1969 to 1984 she was Deputy Chairman of the Head Council for Psychological Sciences and Psychological and Pedagogical Problems of Higher Education, Deputy Chairman (B.G. Ananyev) of the Dissertation Council on Pedagogy and Psychology, and since 1972 Chairman of this Council. In 1968 she was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR in the Department of Vocational Education. She created a unique theory of training and improving the skills of a teacher, without which it is impossible to manage the quality of education.

  In 1989, she formulated the definition of the subject of acmeology as the science of the movement of the heights of professionalism in educational activities. (Published in the materials of the All-Union Conference on the Problems of Professionalism of Teachers of Higher Education (Leninad - Ust-Kamenogorsk, 1989). In 1995 - the first edition of "The Subject of Acmeology", in 2002 - its second edition, including the definition of the subject of fundamental acmeology).

Under the guidance of N.V. Kuzmina, more than 350 dissertators defended, including 50 doctors of pedagogical and psychological sciences. 

On September 29, 2005, she defended her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Acmeological Sciences at the IUFS on the topic "Acmeological laws of fundamental education". An integral part of the acmeological theory of the productive functioning of national education systems, based on the generalization of more than 300 dissertations, but also new trends in modern education research, as well as philosophical research that arose under the influence of fundamental acmeology (the works of outstanding philosophers, V.P. Bransky, P.V. Ilyin, S.D. Pozharsky). 

  From 2005 to 2011 - Head of the Department of General Psychology and Acmeology of the Kovrov State Technological Academy named after V.A. Degtyarev.

From 2011 to 2013 - Leading Researcher of the Department of Organization of Research Work of the Smolny Institute of the Russian Academy of Education.

From 2013 to 2017 - Professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Continuing Professional Education of the Faculty (Training of Highly Qualified Personnel and Additional Professional Education) of the St. Petersburg Military Institute of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Since 2017, he has been a leading researcher at the Smolny Institute of the Russian Academy of Education.

Since 2018, Professor of the Institute of Pedagogy, Psychology and Physical Culture and Sports Education of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after Kh.M. Berbekov. 

In total, more than 300 works have been published, including monographs, textbooks, articles, theses.

Main monographs, textbooks, articles, theses

1. Formation of pedagogical abilities. Leningrad State University, 1961. (translated into Hungarian, Budapest, 1963. Translated into English, London, 1963.

2. The science of raising children in the family., L. 1963;

3. Essays on the psychology of the teacher's work (The psychological structure of the teacher's activity and the formation of his personality. Leningrad State University, 1967; translated into him. Language. 17 editions in . Leipzig, 1975;

4. Methods of research of pedagogical activity. Leningrad State University, 1970;

5. Abilities, giftedness, talent of the teacher. Leningrad 1985;

6. Professionalism of the activities of the teacher and master of industrial training of the secondary vocational school. M. VSh, 1989;

7. Professionalism of the personality of the teacher and master of industrial training of the secondary vocational school. M. VSh, 1990;

8. The subject of acmeology. (1st ed.), St. Petersburg. 1995. (2nd ed.) – St. Petersburg, 2002;

9. Coordination of the requirements of state standards to the level of training of educators, teachers, teachers, co-authors. ICPKPS, 1998;

10. Experience of acmeological research of the work of a scientist, teacher, poet, (Co-author L.F. Luneva) Shuya, 2000;

11. Acmeological study of medical, biological and poetic creativity of two scientists - English and Russian, SHUYA, 2001;

12. Acmeological theory of improving the quality of training of education specialists. Moscow, ICPKPS, 2001;

13. Acmeological theory of fundamental education in the experience of talented teachers. Monograph. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2013. – 272 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-046-2;

14. Acmeological foundations of the development of communicative culture and creative readiness of a bachelor, master, specialist. Monograph. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2015. – 316 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-057-8;

15. Acmeological technologies of fundamental general education. Monograph. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2016. – 286 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-065-3;

16. Acmeological technologies of professional education. Monograph. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2016. – 388 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-066-0;

17. Acmeological technologies of higher education. Monograph. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2016. – 410 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-067-7;

18. Methods of research of educational systems. Monograph. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2018. – 164 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-080-6;

19. Acmeology: theory, practice and development prospects. Monograph. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2018. – 212 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-076-9;

20. Theoretical and practical acmetechnologies in fundamental education. Monograph. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2018. – 110 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-082-0;

21. Acmeological factors of productivity and professionalism of a kindergarten teacher. Monograph. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2018. – 120 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-079-0;

22. The concept of knowledge and competencies of a foreign language teacher. Monograph - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2019. – 112 p.;

23. The influence of the academic group on the academic success of students. Monograph - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2019. – 112 p.;

24. History of research of pedagogical activity. Monograph - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2020. – 150 p.

Study guide

1. Essays on pedagogy (edited by Prof. A.G. Kovaleva, Associate Professor A.K. Bushlya, Associate Professor N.V. Kumina, Leningrad State University, 1963;

2. Methods of research of pedagogical activity. Leningrad State University, 1970;

3. Fundamentals of university pedagogy. Ed. by N.V. Kuzmina and I.A. Urklin, Moscow, 1972;

4. Methods of systematic pedagogical research, Leningrad State University, 1980, M. N.O., 2002;

5. Methods of acmeological research. M. ICPKPS, 2002;

6. Acmeology of professional activity of a specialist in physical culture and sports (Co-authors L.E. Varfolomeeva and G.I. Khozyainov) With a vulture. St. Petersburg, 2005;

7. Acmeology of the quality of professional activity of a manager (Co-author L.E. Pautova). M. 2007;

8. Acmeology of multiethnic competence: diagnosis and development. Educational and methodical manual. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2013. – 268 p. ISBN 978-5-98994-033-2;

9. Acmeology - the basics of the professionalism of the teacher in the XXI century. Tutorial. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2018. – 200 p. (Co-authors Zharinova E.N., Pautova L.E.);

10. Acmeology of rationalization, self-education, self-organization, self-control of a teacher of higher education. Tutorial. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2019. – 32 p. (Co-authors Tyurina T.N., Zharinov N.M., Zharinova E.N., Grigorieva E.A.);

11. Increasing the productivity of the teacher in the educational process. Guidelines. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2019. – 24 p. (Co-authors Dukhovnaya M.M., Zharinov N.M., Zharinova E.N.);

12. Acmeology of personal growth of the future specialist in professional activity. Tutorial. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2019. – 44 p. (Co-authors Zharinov N.M., Zharinova E.N.);

13. The origins of the foundations of acmeology of physical culture and sports. Educational and methodical manual - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Research", 2019. – 24 p. (Co-authors Zharinov N.M., Zharinova E.N.);

14. The concept of the subject of acmeology and acmeological improvement of a higher educational institution as a functional system. Educational and methodological manual - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of NU "Center for Strategic Studies", 2019. – 28 p. (Co-author Zharinova E.N.);

15. Methods of acmeological research of the quality of training of subjects of education. Educational and methodological manual - St. Petersburg: "Center for Strategic Studies", 2020. – 60 p. (Co-author Zharinova E.N.);

16. Professionalism of productive psychological and acmeological activities of subjects of education. Educational and methodological manual - St. Petersburg: "Center for Strategic Studies", 2020. – 44 p. (Co-author Zharinova E.N.).

Kuzmina Nina Vasilievna - Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor. 

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education. Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation. 

Mentions in the publications of the "Psychological Newspaper":

• «Концентрация на том, что предстоит сделать, раздвигает границы жизни. Очень важно видеть цель впереди»

• «В современных условиях нам нужна не толерантность, а повышение полиэтнической компетентности людей»

• О ленинградских психологах — защитниках родной страны

• Этапы 100-летнего развития психологической науки

• Разведчик на войне, разведчик в науке

• Самые цитируемые российские учёные-психологи

• О трех акме-личностях питерской психологической школы

• Нина Васильевна Кузьмина — доктор психологических наук

He was born on October 16 (28), 1880 in the village of Verkhny Yakimets, Ryazhsky District, Ryazan Province. Nikolai Alexandrovich Rybnikov, one of the most prominent Soviet psychologists, was born in 1890. Only at the age of 25, he was able to pass the external exams for the full course of the classical gymnasium and enter the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he held the position of director of the Cabinet of the History of Psychology at the Institute of Psychology. During the war, he served as acting director of the institute, continuing to engage in research work; was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Moscow". 

N. A. Rybnikov developed a biographical method. In the last period of his activity, he was engaged in the development of problems of the national history of psychology, laying the foundation for the systematic development of the historiography of Russian and Soviet psychology. 

In 1928, N. A. Rybnikov proposed the term "acmeology" as a science "... on the development of mature people."

Main monographs, textbooks, articles, theses

• The village schoolboy and his ideals: Essays on the psychology of school. Age. — M., 1916;

• Ideals of high school students. — M., 1918;

• Biographical Institute. — M., 1918;

• Biographies and their study. — M., 1920;

• Children's toys and their choice. — M., 1920;

• Introduction to the study of the child. — 2nd ed. — Minsk, 1921;

• Study of biography: (Topics of the seminary, decree. lit.) / N. Rybnikov; Biogr. In-t. — M., 1922;

• The child and his study: [Systemat. decree. Russian pedol. lit.]. — M., 1922;

• Childhood and adolescence. — M., 1922;

• Central Pedological Institute. — M., 1922;

• Psychology and career choice. — M., 1923;

• Methods of studying the child / ed. by N. A. Rybnikov. — M., 1923;

• Child's language. — M.-L., 1926;

• Interests of the modern student. — M.-L., 1926;

• Dictionary of the Russian child. — M.-L., 1926;

• Children's drawings and their study. — M.-L., 1926;

• Reading, writing and numeracy skills of a modern student. — M., 1929;

• Memory, its psychology and pedagogy. — M.-L., 1930;

• Peasant child. — M., 1930;

• About reading errors and methods of dealing with them. — M., 1939;

• On the history of psychological bibliography // Questions of psychology. — 1956. — № 1.

He was born on August 1 (14), 1907 in Vladikavkaz in a Russified Armenian family. Little is known about his childhood and early adolescence. Those were the years of revolutionary upheavals and wars. The time of great changes carried a dreamy, gifted young man, full of creativity and enthusiasm, into its turbulent stream. Initially, he thought of devoting himself to music, which he passionately loved, graduated from a music school. But soon he was fascinated by another field of activity. After graduating from high school, he entered the Gorsky Pedagogical Institute. At that time, associate professor of pedology R.I. Cheranovsky worked at the institute, who in 1925 organized a pedology office. A number of students who were interested in the problems of psychology and pedagogy were admitted to scientific work in this office. Among them was Boris Ananiev, who eventually became an assistant to R. I. Cheranovsky. In 1937, the degree of candidate of sciences was awarded to Ananiev without defending a dissertation by the Academic Council of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. In February 1940 he defended his doctoral dissertation, in December he approved him in the academic title of professor of psychology. During the Great Patriotic War, from July to December 1941, he worked in Leningrad on a special assignment of the Leningrad Headquarters of the Ministry of Defense for air camouflage. After the evacuation from Leningrad, initially in Kazan, then in Tbilisi, he conducted psychopathological and restorative medical work in neurological hospitals. From November 1943 he returned to Leningrad, where he worked as a professor of psychology at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute until 1947. In 1944 he was elected head of the Department of Psychology of Leningrad State University. From 1951 to 1960 he was the director of the Leningrad Research Institute of Pedagogy and at the same time the head of the Department of Psychology (until 1953) and a professor at the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy at Leningrad State University. Dean of the Faculty of Psychology of Leningrad State University (1968-1972), corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR (1945), full member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR (1968)

Main monographs, textbooks, articles, theses

    Psychology of pedagogical evaluation. — 1935. Reprinted in 1980 and 2007 in collections of scientific works by B. G. Ananyev.

    Essays on psychology. — 1945. Republished in 2007 in the collections of scientific works of B. G. Ananyev.

    Essays on Russian psychology of the XVIII-XIX centuries. — 1947.

    Man as an object of knowledge. — 1969.

    Psychology of sensory cognition. — 1960. Reprinted in 2001, as well as in German. in the GDR in 1963: Ananjev B.G. Psychologie der sinnlichen Erkenntnis. — Berlin: VEB, 1963.

    Theory of sensations. — 1961.

    Psychology and problems of human science. — MODEK, 2005.

    Selected psychological works. 1 and 2 vols. - Pedagogy, 1980.

    Man as an object of knowledge. — Leningrad, 1968.

    On the problems of modern human science. — SPb., 2001.

    Personality, subject of activity, individuality. Moscow: Direct-Media, 2008.