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Matyushkin Aleksey Mikhaylovich (1927-2004) – Russian psychologist, Doctor of Psychology, professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education. Area of scientific research: problems of psychology of problematic learning, creativity, higher forms of aptitude. Also studied the process of communication and interpersonal relations, development of students' professional thinking, improvement of forms and methods of learning in higher education establishments. Developed the scientific concept and program of research and development of gifted and talented children "Creative Aptitude". His ideas are presented in the monographs: "Problematic Situations in Thinking and Learning", 1972; "Problems of Development of Professional Thinking of Students in Basic Forms of Learning", 1978; "Secrets of Talent. Problems of Practical Diagnostics", 1993.

Menchinskaya Natalia Alexandrovna (1905-1984) - Russian psychologist, pedagogue, doctor of pedagogy, professor, corresponding member of APS USSR. M. is the well-known specialist in the sphere of developmental and educational psychology. The subject of her special attention was investigation of learning process and methods of work on educational material as well as investigation of child psychic development with its distinctive features. The main works: “The development of arithmetical operations among children of school age” (1934), “Psychology of teaching arithmetic” (1952), “The psychic development of a child. Mother’s diary.” (1957),  “The question of intellectual development of a child” (1970).

Melik-Pashayev Aleksandr Aleksandrovich – Russian psychologist, Doctor of Psychology. Author of the holistic personal approach to the problem of artistic creativity, which is perceived as one of the ways of self-actualization of the supreme creative "ego". The psychological principium of abilities in any form of artistic creativity is believed to be the person's holistic approach to reality ("esthetic attitude") characterized by conscious experience of one's involvement in the world and the special value of external, sensitive image of objects and events. Main publications: "Pedagogy of Art and Creative Abilities", 1981; "Steps to Creativity", 1987; "Art in School" (in collab. with Z. Novlyanskaya), 1995.

Merlin Volf Solomonovich (1898-1982) – Russian psychologist, Doctor of Psychology, professor. From 1954 to the end of his life worked at the Psychology Department of Perm State Pedagogical University. Developed a concept of individual style of activity in various areas of human practice and of the personality structure. Formulated the psychological concept of temperament. The integrity of personality is due to the fact that same personal attitudes acquire different functions when considered as direction, character, ability or self-consciousness. As for the temperament, it cannot be regarded within the personality structure since its origin is different than that of the other aspects of personality. Developed the concept of "integral individuality". Main publications: "An Essay on the Psychology of Personality", 1959; "An Essay on the Theory of Temperament", 1964; "Problems of Experimental Personal Psychology", 1968, 1970; study guide "Lectures on the Psychology of Motives", 1971.

Morozov Vladimir Petrovich (born in 1929) – Russian psychophysiologist, psychologist, Doctor of Biology, professor, Head of the Laboratory of Nonverbal Communications of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Developed the classification and researched the particularities of human perception of different types of nonverbal, extralinguistic information of vocal communication. Proved a new concept of emotional hearing, researched its individual and typological manifestations in humans. Main publications: "Biophysical Principia of Vocal Communication", 1977; "Speech Perception: Problems of the Functional Brain Asymmetry", Moscow, 1988.

Munipov Vladimir Mikhaylovich (born in 1931) – Russian psychologist, Doctor of Psychology, professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education. Area of scientific research: Ergonomics, Industrial Psychology, psychological aspects of design. His research allowed discovering entire layers of psychological, psychophysiological and ergonomic knowledge in works of V. Bekhterev, V. Myasishchev, N. Bernshtein and others. Prepared a number of textbooks, anthologies and standards of human factor allowance for design, implementation and maintenance of new equipment: "Current State and Development Trends of Ergonomics", 1978; "The Basics of Ergonomics" (in collab. with V. Zinchenko), 1979, 1998; "Ergonomic Principles of Design", 1992.

Myasishchev Vladimir Nikolayevich (1893-1973) – Russian psychologist. In 1944-1973 professor of Leningrad University, where he was instrumental in establishing the Faculty of Psychology. Follower of the traditions of V. Bekhterev's school. Researched microstructural changes to brain tissue accompanied by functional impairment of its activity. His research encompasses problems of Psychopathology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Medical Psychology. Proposed the term "systemic neuroses" describing diseases conditioned by reactive psychogenetic factors to which the patient's personality reacts with disturbances that are fixated and intensified in the future. Researched borderline states and their treatment, sought to distinguish them from neuroses, studied the problem of norm, psychosomatic health and its restoration. Posed the problem of relations as conscious selective contacts of a person with the material and social milieu determining the person's mental characteristics and qualities and actualizing it the person's activity. Relationship Psychology deals with conscious attitude of a person towards his environment and himself ensuring synthetic and dynamic understanding of personality as oneness of subject and object. Main publications: "Introduction to Medical Psychology"; "Personality and Neuroses"; "Psychological Attributes of Personality" (Volume I, "Character", and Volume II, "Abilities") (in collab. with A. Kovalyov), 1957-1960.