The archive of the Zagorsky experiment will be posted on the Internet

The Support Support Fund will open access to the archive of the Soviet defectologist Ivan Sokolyansky, who laid the basis of the Zagorsky experiment, which proved the ability of blind people to receive higher education.

Sokolyansky dedicated most of his life to work with blinded children. In particular, developing his scientific ideas, psychologist and defectologist Alexander Meshcheryakov, he was able to conduct a Zagorsky experiment, in which it was found that blind people, when creating conditions, are able to undergo training within the framework of the higher education system.

The participants in the experiment were four pupils of the Zagorsky orphanage of the deaf -blind. For six years, they trained at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, all participants in the experiment successfully graduated from the university and received diplomas of higher education.

The archive formed according to the results of the experiment was transferred to the Institute of Correctional Pedagogy, but due to political and economic changes in the country, a wide audience was not available for a long time.

“The Sokolyansky archive is of great importance for the scientific community. Thanks to the progressive developments of the Soviet defectologist and his students, for a long time the USSR was a leader in solving the problems of blind people. -says Dmitry Polikanov, director of the Co-Union Foundation . - Due to the historical reasons for the development of Sokolyansky, for a long time were inaccessible to researchers and practitioners. The task of our fund is to make world practices for teaching deaf -blind public property. It is especially pleasant for us that the Sokolyansky archive was transferred to the Co-Union Fund in the framework of the first event of our fund in the direction of "Education and Science". "

All archival documents will be digitized and posted in open access. Thus, the developments of leading Soviet researchers will be able to familiarize the parents of deaf -blind children, and teachers working with blind men, and the deaf -blind people themselves, and students, graduate students and Russian scientists involved in people with double sensory disorders.