Preface

The first issue of the journal " Vestnik of St. Petersburg State University. Psychology " 2021 opens with an article dedicated to the work of Kurt Lewin, whose 130th anniversary was celebrated by the scientific community in 2020. Kurt Lewin is one of the greatest psychologists of the twentieth century, his works have largely determined the development of a number of areas of world psychological science. Among his first students, as is known, were students from Russia, including B. V. Zeigarnik, who later became one of the leading teachers of the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University and introduced many generations of domestic psychologists to the ideas of Kurt Levin. However, the meeting with them took place earlier: Kurt Levin himself showed interest in the works of Russian psychologists, including having personal contacts with them. References to his ideas can be found in the works of the leading Russian psychologists of that time-A. R. Luria, L. S. Vygotsky, A. N. Leontiev.