Munipov, Vladimir Mikhailovich

In 1954 he graduated from the natural sciences department of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov .

In 1962, he became one of the founders of the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics , where he worked until 1992 and organized the country's first ergonomics department.

In 1968 he defended his thesis “V. M. Bekhterev and his place in the history of Russian pedagogy and educational psychology. ”

In 1971, he began teaching ergonomics and design at Moscow State University; in 1990 he became a professor there at the Department of Labor Psychology and Engineering Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology .

In 1972, he headed the newly created International Coordination Center of the CMEA member countries in the field of ergonomics.

In 1988, he defended the first doctoral dissertation in the USSR with a degree in ergonomics on the topic “Formation of Ergonomics as a Scientific and Design Discipline”.

In 1992, at the initiative of V. M. Munipov, the “Association of Applied Ergonomics” was created, which he headed. In the same year, the main place of work of V.M. Munipov was the Department of Ergonomics, MIREA , where he was a professor.

In 1995, he took office and. about. Academician-Secretary of the Higher Education Department of the Russian Academy of Education .

In 2000, the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, in Chapter XIII, Outstanding Professionals in the Field of Human Factors and Ergonomics, published a biographical sketch of V. M. Munipov among 39 leading scientists from around the world ^[2] .

V.M. Munipov was a member of the International Commission on the Human Aspects of Computerization (since 1982), a member of the board of the International Foundation for Production Research (since 1993), and a member of the board of the Union of Designers (since 1987).

V.M. Munipov developed the foundations of a comprehensive study of man in labor. He summarized the experience of organizing interdisciplinary research in the fields of hygiene, biomechanics, physiology, psychophysiology, labor psychology and engineering psychology . V.M. Munipov proposed a new concept of the quality of labor, hanging its content and attractiveness, based on an interdisciplinary approach and, in particular, on the psychological theory of activity .

Another area of ​​scientific activity of V.M. Munipov was the analysis of the current state and development trends of labor sciences in our country and in the world. His work made it possible to identify entire layers of psychological, psychophysiological and ergonomic knowledge in the works of V. M. Bekhterev , V. N. Myasishchev , S. G. Gellershtein , I. N. Shpilrein , N. A. Bernshtein and others, which were not previously could be introduced into the structure of the history of domestic psychology and physiology of labor.

The methodological, historical and experimental works of V.M. Munipov in the field of ergonomics made it possible to determine its status as a non-classical type of discipline, which is at the same time a field of scientific knowledge and practical (design) activity that comprehensively solves the problems of designing equipment, software, working conditions, and vocational training and selection. The experimental studies of visual thinking by V.M. Munipov build on the concept of ergodizine.

V.M. Munipov was the chief editor and one of the organizers of the journal Applied Ergonomics.

He was a member of the editorial boards of journals:

• " Questions of Psychology ",
• "Technical aesthetics",
• " Cultural-historical psychology " ^[3] ,
• Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing
• Human-computer interactions
• Applied Ergonomics
• International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (1995 to 2002) ^[4]

and the editorial board of the journal Psychological Science and Education ^[5] .

V.M. Munipov took part in the advisory board at Mosfilm, where, among other things, he defended the rental of E. Ryazanov's film “ A Man from Nowhere ”.

In 1982, he organized the famous tour of MK K. Mamardashvili at the Institute of Psychology, on the basis of which Kantian Variations and Cartesian Reflections were written.

In 1989, he was the organizer of the International Exhibition "Design in the USSR" in India (Delhi, Bangalore).

In 1993, V. M. Munipov participated in the Constitutional Conference , drafting the Constitution of the Russian Federation, at the request of the Presidential Administration B. N. Yeltsin as a psychologist-consultant ^[6]

V.M. Munipov began his career as a teacher of psychology and logic at school No. 59 in Moscow. From 1992 to the end of his life, he worked actively in the education system: he was a professor at the Department of Ergonomics, MIREA, Moscow City Psychological and Pedagogical University, and Dubna International University ^[7] .

In 2012, the library of V. M. Munipov was donated to the Department of Psychology of the University of Dubna, and the Psychological Center named after V. M. Munipov was created at the Department of Psychology of the University of Dubna in honor of Vladimir Mikhailovich Munipov ^[8] . On April 10, 2013, the Center hosted a conference dedicated to the memory of V. M. Munipov “PSYCHOLOGISTS OF THE FATHERLAND: ON THE 82TH ANNIVERSARY OF V. M. MUNIPOV” ^[9] .

V. M. Munipov has published over 300 scientific papers; 8 books and study guides have been translated and published abroad in English, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Spanish, German, Polish, Slovak, Czech, French, Swedish. He is a co-author of the country's first ergonomic study guide for university students studying in the specialty “Psychology”.

1. Munipov V.M., Zinchenko V.P. Methodological problems of ergonomics. M., 1974.
2. Munipov V. M. Development of the scientific foundations of ergonomic norms and requirements. M., 1978.
3. Munipov V.M. Current status and development trends of ergonomics. M., 1978.
4. Munipov V.M., Zinchenko V.P. Fundamentals of Ergonomics. Tutorial. M., 1979.
5. Munipov V.M. Ergonomics. Principles and recommendations. M., 1983.
6. Munipov V.M. History of Soviet psychology of labor. Texts (20-30s of XX century). M., 1983.
7. Munipov V.M. Current status and development trends of ergonomics abroad. M., 1987.
8. Danilyak V.I., Munipov V.M., Fedorov M.V. Ergoddesign, quality, competitiveness. M., 1990.
9. Munipov VM Chernobyl operators: criminals or victims? // Applied Ergonomics. 1992. Vol. 23 (5). pp. 337—342.
10. Munipov V.M. Ergonomic principles of construction. Kiev, 1992.
11. Munipov V.M. Camo of the ridge, ergonomics? M., 1992.
12. Munipov V.M., Zinchenko V.P. Ergonomics. Human-oriented designed engineering, software and environment .: Textbook . - M .: Logos, 2001.

History of medicine, personalities

• Munipov V.M.V. M. Bekhterev (1857-1927) . - M .: Medicine, 1969. - 56 p. - ( Prominent figures of domestic medicine and healthcare ). ( Bekhterev, Vladimir Mikhailovich )

• Video from a lecture by V. M. Munipov “Psychotechnics and the search for a new methodology for the development of psychology. Labor in the Information Economy ”: Part 1 and Part 2
• "AT. M. Munipov reveals himself to people ” // Cultural-historical psychology . 2011. No 2. p. 2 to 21.
• About Munipov from the "Second Person"
• Biography on the website of the Interregional Ergonomic Association
• Publications on the Psyjournals.ru portal