This year we celebrate 150th anniversary of Georgiy Ivanovich Chelpanov. To commemorate this date, on February 16, 2012, in the framework of the V-th Convention of all-Russian organization ”Russian Psychological Society”, the Psychology Institute of Russian Academy of Education hosts a symposium “Georgiy Ivanovich Chelpanov – founder of the system of scientific psychology and psychological education in Russia (celebrating 150 years of his birth)”. Symposium begins at 11:00 am.
Additionally, an edition of G.I. Chelpanov’s complete works is to be published this year. The team of the Department of Cultural-historical psychology and Laboratory of theoretical and experimental problems of cultural-historical psychology made big effort to help prepare this edition. The compilers hope that this book will be a helpful learning aid for students, as well as PhD’s and practicing educators.