Defectologist who began the education of deafblind children in Kharkiv and founded the method on which the Zagorsk experiment was built
Born in 1889 to a Ukrainian Cossack family in the Kuban, he took part in the 1905 revolution and was exiled, studied pedagogy in St Petersburg and became a teacher of deaf-mute children. From 1923 he taught defectology in Kharkiv, becoming professor in 1926; he founded a school-clinic for deafblind children there and for a time led the All-Ukrainian 'Marxist Educator' society. He was arrested in 1933 and again from 1937 to 1939. In 1950 he set up the laboratory for deafblind children at the Institute of Defectology, working with his pupil Olga Skorokhodova, and Alexander Meshcheryakov carried that work on into the Zagorsk experiment. Rehabilitated and restored to the party in 1957, he died in 1960 and in 1981 was posthumously awarded the USSR State Prize with Meshcheryakov.
Also known as: Ivan Sokoliansky · Ivan Sokolianskyi
Activities and affiliations
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1923–1933
Soviet Union state institutionsProfessor of defectology and director of pedagogy institute, KharkivMain
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1950–1960
Soviet Union state institutionsHead of the deafblind children laboratory, Institute of Defectology
Science and technology
Career Timeline
- 1905Took part in the revolution in the Kuban; arrested and exiled
- 1908–1913Studied pedagogy at the Psychoneurological Institute, St Petersburg
- 1910–1919Teacher at the Alexandrovsk school for deaf-mutes
- 1919–1920Founded a school for the deaf in Uman; head of the city education department
- 1923Taught defectology at the Kharkiv Institute of Public Education
- 1926Professor of defectology
- 1930Director of the Kharkiv research institute of pedagogy
- 1933Arrested
- 1937–1939Arrested again and imprisoned
- 1947Ushinsky Prize
- 1950Founded the deafblind children laboratory at the Institute of Defectology
- 1957Rehabilitated and restored to the party
- 1981Posthumous USSR State Prize