ПСИХОТЕХНИК ГОРОДСКОГО ДВИЖЕНИЯ, ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТАТОР И ИЗОБРЕТАТЕЛЬ ПЕТРОС ВАНЕЦИАН (К 125-ЛЕТИЮ СО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ)

Ключевые слова: история психотехники, психология восприятия, ГАХН, психотехническая лаборатория, Московское коммунальное хозяйство, городское движение, аэрографический институт, маркировка воздушных линий.

Abstract. This article tells about the poor unknown psychotechnician and psychologist Petros Vramovich Vanetsian, who turned 125 this year. After graduating from high school in Moscow, he entered Moscow University, becoming one of G.I. Chelpanov's students, inheriting the ability for serious experimental work. Even without graduating from the university, he began working at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, and this was the beginning of his psychological and experimental activity. In the 1920s, among the many places where he was employed, the State Academy of Artistic Sciences (GAKhN) undoubtedly stands out. There, in the Laboratory of Experimental Esthetics and Art Criticism, headed by V.M. Ekzemplyarsky, postgraduate student P.V. Vanetsian, participating in joint research with senior colleagues, also students of Chelpanov, on issues of aesthetic perception, prepared an article "On the issue of typical individual differences in the perception of harmonic and compositional relations of a color complex" (the proceedings were not published). After the closure of the GAKhN, the life of Vanetsian became closely connected with the psychotechnical laboratory of the Moscow Municipal Services of the City Railways Administration and worked there until 1934, "growing" from the position of assistant to deputy director for research. During these years, he proved himself to be a skillful and subtle experimenter, focused on solving practical problems: he designed a number of installations and devices, developed several tests that were widely used in the psychotechnical laboratories of the USSR for professional selection in the field of transport and industry. After the decree on pedological perversions in the People's Commissariat of Education system (1936) was issued, Vanetsian had difficulties defending his candidate's dissertation due to the use of tests in previously completed works. From 1938, he taught at the Fergana United Pedagogical and Teachers' Institute. At the end of 1942, Vanetsian went to the front and died in 1943 in the Oryol region.

Key words: history of psychotechnics, psychology of perception, GAKhN, psychotechnical laboratory, Moscow municipal services, urban traffic, aerographic institute, marking of overhead lines.