Marakhov, Vladimir Grigorievich

Born in the village of Bolshoy Samovets, Shchuchinsky district, Voronezh region in a teacher’s family. In 1952 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Leningrad State University and entered graduate school . In 1958 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on philosophy on the topic "Patterns of the Development of Productive Forces and Industrial Relations" ^[1] .

In 1959-1961 he studied in the special group “Physics” of the Physics and Mechanics Department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute ;

worked as a teacher and then head of the department at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute . In 1969 he defended his doctoral dissertation "The structure and development of the productive forces of society (methodological and sociological problems)." In 1970-1978 - Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Leningrad State University.

In April 1971, he was also elected head of the Department of Historical Materialism (since 1990, the Department of Social Philosophy), where he worked in this position until 1992. In this position, he replaced the ex-dean V.P. Rozhin . After Marakhov left the post of head of the department, his student K. S. Pigrov headed ^[2] .

Together with academician F.V. Konstantinov, he organized the preparation of a 5-volume collective monograph “Materialist Dialectics”

He prepared a number of doctors of sciences, who later became heads of the departments of philosophy (K. S. Pigrov, E. A. Shapovalov ); was the supervisor of the current director of the Institute of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University S. I. Dudnik ^[3] .

• The structure and development of the productive forces of a socialist society. Moscow, 1970 (translated into it. Language. - Berlin, 1972).
• Management and development of the productive forces of society. L., 1972.
• The Scienti fi c and Technological Revolution and Nature // The VIII World Congress of Sociology. Canada, Toronto. August 17-24, 1974. M., 1974.
• Scientific and technological revolution and its social consequences. M., 1975.
• Scientific and technological revolution: its essence, sources and development factors. M., 1976.
• Dialektika rozvoja virobnych sil a vyrobnich vstahov v socialistikej spolocnosti. Bratislava, 1977 (et al.).
• Spojenie uspechov vedecrj-technickej revolucie s prednostami sozializmu. Bratislava, 1980 (et al.).
• Materialist dialectics: In 5 vols. M., 1981-1985 ((in conjunction with F.V. Konstantinov; translated into Chinese. - Shanghai, 1986-1989).
• Update strategy. New social mechanism. M., 1990 (editor-in-chief).
• Social reality and social theories. St. Petersburg, 1998 (editor-in-chief).
• Prospects for practical philosophy at the turn of the millennium. St. Petersburg, 1999 (editor-in-chief).
• Civil society of Russia: prospects of the XXI century. St. Petersburg, 2000 (editor-in-chief).
• Practical philosophy and civil society in Russia. St. Petersburg, 2004 (editor-in-chief).
• University education and civil society. St. Petersburg, 2007 (editor-in-chief).
• Social Philosophy: Lecture Course. SPb., 2008 (2nd ed. 2009 - ISBN 978-5-9651-0301-0 )

• Biography on the site of St. Petersburg State University
• An article on the site "Famous Scientists"
• Philosophy in Russia. Past. The present. The future (conversation with I. D. Osipov )