The future of psychology is important not to expect, but to do. To the 90th anniversary of the birth of Evgeny Aleksandrovich Klimov.

Relevance. June 11, 2020 marked the 90th anniversary of Evgeny Klimov (11.06.1930-31.05.2014) birth, Doctor of Psychology, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, President of the Russian Academy of Education (1994-2003), Dean of the Faculty of Psychology Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Goal. The introductory note is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of E.A. Klimov (1930-2014). Fragments of memoirs about the personality of the scientist by his students and colleagues are presented. The contours of his scientific contribution to the development of Russian psychology, his activities as a science organizer and teacher are outlined.

Results. The authors prepared for publication the scientist's manuscript, his speech to the participants of the student conference at Moscow University in 2002. In the text of E.A. Klimov presented the main ideas for the successful professional development of young psychologists, among them: the idea of the social significance of the profession; focus on business, and not on your career; assistance in improving the psychological culture of the people; the desire to separate new scientific knowledge from the redesignation of traditional knowledge with new words; development of methods of empirical research, including methods of analysis of unique cases; the conditions for the progressive development of psychology are indicated.

References

Klimov E.A. (1986) About the work and personality of Professor V.S. Merlin (strokes to the characteristic). In Merlin V.S. An outline of the integral study of individuality(pp. 7-19). Moscow: Pedagogika. (in Russ.).

Klimov E.A. (1996) Psychology of professional self-determination. Rostov-on-Don: Feniks. (in Russ.).

Leonova A.B., Noskova O.G. (2015) Ideals of psychological science and practice in prof. E.A. Klimov works. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 14: Psikhologiya (Moscow University Psychology Bulletin), 4, 4-14. (in Russ.).

Noskova O.G. (2016) The psychological heritage of E.A. Klimov (in commemoration of the 85th anniversary). Psikhologicheskii zhurnal (Psychological Journal), 37(1), 131-135. (in Russ.).

Noskova O.G., Strelkov Yu.K. (2010) НосковаО.Г., СтрелковЮ.К. Evgenii Aleksandrovich Klimov: life in science. Natsional'nyi psikhologicheskii zhurnal (National Psychological Journal),1(3), 9-14.(in Russ.).