On A.G. Asmolov’s thesis “On the role of set in the structure of activity”

Introductory notes.
These notes on the margins of Ph.D. Thesis which are being published here, and the supervisor’s review of the Thesis clearly explicate both A.N. Leontiev’s unique intellectual style of work with his disciples and his active involvement into the generation of key hypotheses of the study. It is remarkable that from the beginning A.N. Leontiev’s central intention was making sense of multifaceted phenomena of set as inertia instances ensuring the stability of the dynamics of activity. It is the unique function of ensuring the stability of the direction of activity reveals the role of the effects of set in psychology. Discussions on the nature of set and the relationships between set and activity with the representatives of the scientific school of Dmitry Uznadze, classic of Soviet psychology, are still going. 
It is worth noting, that in his notes of 1976 A.N. Leontiev sketched the perspectives of investigating personality as a system of meaning-related formations. Such an investigation cannot be reduced to laboratory experiments, in principle. It would make little sense if I, A.N. Leontiev’s disciple, would “comment on my teacher’s comments” in 47 years. Love to my teacher illuminates everything I did, do, and hopefully, will be doing some more time. In the day of defense of this dissertation brilliant Georgian psychologist Shota Aleksandrovich Nadirashvili noted that love is a set. I should confess that the set of love to Alexey Nikolaevich Leontiev provided the stability of all my professional and private life.