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The establishment in 1971-1972 of the Institute of Psychology within the structure of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences was an important milestone in the history of national psychology.Leading scientists of the Soviet Union, both psychologists and representatives of other fields of knowledge, took part in its creation.The role of psychology as a special science, which studies regularities of human emotions and feelings, activity and actions, was recognized at the highest levels of the country's leadership and in the academic environment.The Institute was created, first of all, as a research center, aimed at working out fundamental questions of psychology and solving theoretical and methodological problems of psychological science.Its other statutory tasks were to coordinate works on general, social, engineering psychology, labor psychology, special applied problems of this science and psychophysiology, as well as to participate in the complex study of problems of philosophy, specific social research, physiology of human higher nervous activity, physiology of human adaptation, theory of control processes that were marginal for psychology (a detailed description of the early history of the Institute of Psychology of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences is contained in our other work [13]).In order to solve such problems, one definitely needs a certain organizing idea, a principle underlying both the organizational and personnel policy for the staffing of the Institute and the research work of its
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