Alexander Zaporozhets
Psychologist
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Zaporozhets was a Soviet developmental psychologist and a student of Lev Vygotsky and Aleksei Leontiev.
Zaporozhets studied the psychological mechanisms of voluntary movements, perception and action, as well as the... Wikipedia
Born: September 12, 1905, Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: October 7, 1981 (age 76 years), Moscow, Russia
Academic advisor: Lev Vygotsky
Notable students: Vladimir Zinchenko, Nikolaj Nikolajevič Podd'jakov, L.S. Tsvetkova, and more
Education: Second Moscow State University