V.v. Novikov: scientist, organizer, social psychologist (on his 90th anniversary)

The year 2025 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding Yaroslavl and Russian psychologist, organizer of science and education, a major specialist in the field of social psychology, labor psychology, and management psychology Viktor Vasilyevich Novikov (1935–2014). V.V. Novikov stood at the origins of the modern Yaroslavl psychological school: he was the first among Yaroslavl psychologists to begin systematic development of the problems of social psychology (1967); together with V.S. Filatov, V.D. Shadrikov and M.M. Knyazev, he organized the work of the third psychology faculty in the USSR at the Yaroslavl State University (1970); developed a system of industry psychological service in the sector of social and psychological research of the Scientific Labor Organization Center of the USSR Ministry of Oil and Chemical Industry (1972–1988); was the first president of the International Academy of Psychological Sciences (1992); created the Department of Social and Political Psychology at Yaroslavl State University (1994–1995); organized the work of dissertation councils at the Faculty of Psychology of Yaroslavl State University (1994–1997). Based on the works of V.V. Novikov’s disciples and modern methods of historical and psychological research, the article attempts to integrate the career and scientific biography of the scientist: periods of his scientific biography and the most significant research problems are highlighted, and the dynamics of scientific interests by periods are shown. It is argued that V.V. Novikov managed not only to preserve socio-psychological issues as central throughout 50 years of scientific activity, but also to create new research areas on its basis in the fields of entrepreneurship psychology, management psychology, political psychology, etc.