Setrov, Mikhail Ivanovich

Born in the peasant family of Ivan Petrovich Setrov and Olga Fedorovna Setrova (nee Malysheva). In 1935 the family moved from the village of Konechek to the Popovka station 30 km from Leningrad . In 1938 he entered school. In September 1941, the Germans occupied Popovka, and his father, Ivan Petrovich Setrov, was executed as a communist. An orphaned family returned to the village of Konecek. In 1943, the retreating Nazis sent their mother and son to a labor camp near Berlin. In 1945 they were liberated by the Red Army , moved to live in Leningrad.

In 1948, Mikhail joined the Komsomol . In the same year he graduated from seven classes in Leningrad school number 256 and entered work as a projectionist. In 1949, he got a job working on a geophysical expedition on the Kola Peninsula , first as a worker, and later as a computer. In 1951 he became the head of the Komsomol geophysical reconnaissance detachment in Altai .

From 1952 to 1956 he served in the Far East . After demobilization, he returned to Leningrad and entered a milling worker at a military factory, at the same time becoming a student at a factory evening school. During this period he was elected a Komsomol of the workshop. In 1959, after graduating from the 10th grade, he entered the biological cycle of the philosophical faculty of Leningrad State University . The head of the thesis was Kirill Zavadsky, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the USSR.

In 1963, after graduation, he became a graduate student of the Leningrad Department of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1965 he joined the CPSU. In 1967 he defended his thesis. In 1971, the first monograph was published - Organization of Biosystems. In 1973 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Methodological principles of the theory of organization." Opponents were K. M. Zavadsky, I. P. Frolov (editor-in-chief of the journal “Questions of Philosophy” at that time), S. T. Meluhin (dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University). Despite their support, the dissertation was delayed with approval by the Higher Attestation Commission for three years as "non-Marxist."

In 1977 he moved to work in the Caucasian State Biosphere Reserve as deputy director for scientific work. In 1981, he accepted the offer of Odessa State University ^{[2] to} head the created department of philosophy of natural faculties and moved to Odessa. In the period 1981-1988 under the editorship of M. I. Setrov several collective monographs were published ^{[3] [4] [5]} , he supervised the preparation of graduate students (for example, L. M. Raskolotko, subject of the work “Philosophical analysis of the functional concept of time” 1983 ^[6] )

In 1991, due to political changes, M. I. Setrov returned to work in the Caucasian State Nature Reserve as the head of the scientific department. In 1993, the film “Meeting for You” was shot about M.I. Setrov by Sochi television (the author of the program is journalist Ksenia Kovalenko, director Raidugina, broadcast was 03/11/93). In this meeting with youth, M. I. Setrov, among other things, said that he considers K. Marx to be the ideal scientist. He spoke about his attitude to religion, about environmental and social problems. In the same year, under his leadership, a manual was developed and published in Sochi for the security personnel of the Observer's Sputnik reserve, and in 1994, a collective monograph, The Environmental Ecological Pyramid. According to the "layoffs" M. I. Setrov was dismissed from the reserve. Soon he becomes vice-rector of the Moscow Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship in Sochi. In 1995, he switched to scientific work - he became the main scientific associate of the Sochi Scientific Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences ^[7] , where he currently works.

M. I. Setrov is a participant in numerous domestic and foreign conferences and congresses, the author of 5 monographs and more than 200 articles, the editor of many collective works.

Under the guidance of M. I. Setrov, on the basis of his theoretical developments, work was carried out to create a dynamic model of biocenosis, an automated system of expert evaluation of new technology, a verbal-mathematical model of a “perfect research institute,” an All-Union seminar was worked out to develop a general theory of organization.

Gold medal of the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR (1963) for the diploma work devoted to the analysis of the correlation of system concepts.

Anniversary medals “Unconquered” to juvenile prisoners of fascism (1995) (2000) ^[8]

Monographs

1. General principles of organization of systems and their methodological significance. L., "Science", 1971.
2. Organization of biosystems. L., "Science", 1971.
3. Fundamentals of the functional theory of organization. L., "Science", 1972. - 164p.
4. Information processes in biological systems. L., "Science", 1975.
5. The historical mission of Russia and the paradoxes of its history (volume 1). Sochi Research Center, 2007. ISBN 5887112875 , 9785887112879

Most Important Articles

1. The significance of the general theory of systems of L. Bertalanffy for biology. Sat "Philosophical problems of modern biology." L., "Science", 1966.
2. On the criteria of organization in biology. Journal of Philosophical Sciences, No. 1, 1967.
3. About the general elements of A. Bogdanov’s tectology, cybernetics and systems theory. - Scientific notes of the departments of social sciences of the universities of Leningrad. Philosophy, Issue 8. 1967.
4. Information and organization. Sat Materials of the Moscow State University Conference. M., 1967.
5. Methodological principles of building a unified organizational theory. Journal of Philosophy Issues, No. 5, 1969. (translated into German and Polish)
6. The degree and height of the organization of systems. - In the book. Systemic research. Yearbook. M., 1969.
7. About the essence of information. Proceedings of the SZPI No. 2, 1970.
8. The unity of genetics and embryology in the light of the principle of consistency. Sat "Methodological problems of the interaction of sciences." L., "Science", 1970.
9. The principle of consistency and its basic concepts. In the book. "Problems of the methodology of systems research", M., "Thought", 1970.
10. General principles of organization of systems and problems of improving technical devices. Sat "Problems of the activities of the scientific team." M., 1971.
11. Problems of developing a functional theory of organization. Proceedings of the XIII International Congress on the History of Science. M., "Science", 1971.
12. The relationship of the main hierarchical series of the organization of the living. - In the book. "Development of the concept of structural levels of biology." M., "Science", 1972.
13. The specifics of the system-organizational approach. Sat "Methodological problems of organization theory." L., "Science", 1976.
14. The concept of energy and its role in modern science. In the book "Modeling of electric power systems." Tallinn, 1977.
15. The energy aspect of the organization of systems. The Journal of Cybernetics,
16. No. 32, 1977.
17. Organization and evolution. Soviet-Bulgarian collection, 1978.
18. System-organizational modeling of reserved biocenoses. Sat "Methodological problems of the organization of biosystems." L., "Science", 1978.

• "Philosophy in Odessa" - an article in which there are references to the activities of M. I. Setrov in OSU
• Sochi SRC RAS - the current place of work of Setrov M. I.
• Site about M. I. Setrov