Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

Soviet Union state institutions Marxism–Leninism 1953–2024 ○ Died

One of the Zagorsk Four; a deafblind psychologist and poet who studied at Moscow University and became a doctor of psychology

Born in 1953 at Frunze in Kirghizia, he lost his sight at three and his hearing at nine, and from 1964 grew up at the Zagorsk boarding school for deafblind children. In 1971 he joined Alexander Meshcheryakov's experimental group, studying first as a trainee in Moscow University's philosophy faculty and then, from 1972 to 1977, in its psychology faculty with the three others of the Zagorsk Four. From 1977 he worked at the Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology with Evald Ilyenkov as his supervisor; he took his doctorate in psychology in 1996 with 'Humanity as a Factor in the Self-Development of Personality' and from 1999 was a professor at the University of the Russian Academy of Education. He was president of the Community of Families of the Deafblind and a poet.