Vasily Davydov

Vasily Vasilovich Davydov (31 August 1930 – 19 March 1998) was a Russian psychologist who led the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education.^[1]

In 1958 he joined Georgy Shchedrovitsky in founding the Commission for The Study of The Psychology of Thought and Logic^[2]

In the 1980s he was Director of the Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology in Moscow. Here he established a 'laboratory' where Felix Mikhailov, Vladimir Bibler, A.S. Arsen'ev and Georgy Shchedrovitsky. In 1983 he was removed from the institute and the laboratory was dissolved.^[3]

He was a student and close friend of Evald Ilyenkov.^[4]