ПРОФКОНСУЛЬТАНТ ЛЕНИНГРАДСКИХ ПОДРОСТКОВ ГЕОРГИЙ ЮРЬЕВИЧ МАЛИС (К 120-ЛЕТИЮ СО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ)

Abstract. This article tells about a little-known period of life of the famous psychiatrist Georgy Yurievich Malis, who in 2024 celebrated his 120th birthday. He did not live even 60 years, but the lived years included many events connected with the history of Soviet science. As a very young man, he authored a book with the ambitious title “Psychoanalysis of Communism”, ensuring his fame as a competent researcher of psychoanalysis. After Odessa, where he was born, and Kharkov, where he was head of the pedological office in the NKVD House of Childhood, Georgy Yurievich moved to Leningrad and for ten years connected his life with the Bekhterev Brain Institute. During these years, he became a specialist in the professional selection of Leningrad schoolchildren, worked in the criminology office of the State Institute for the Study of Criminal and Crime of the NKVD, methodologically comprehended the paths of modern psychology, studied at the 1st Pavlov Leningrad Medical Institute, then – as a postgraduate at the Department of Psychiatry of the Leningrad State Institute for Advanced Training of Doctors, defended his PhD thesis on the treatment of psychosis. As a participant of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, he was awarded battle orders. After the war, his life was again entirely connected with psychiatry. Highlighting a small period of his life, fit into the period 1928-1934, we described his scientific and practical activity in the study of psychotechnical professional counseling of adolescents going to FZU or production. G.Yu. Malis investigated professional orientation and methods of its study. 

Key words: history of psychotechnics, State Institute for Brain Research, professional counseling, professional selection, professional orientation, questionnaire method, study of environment.