ABSTRACT
Vladimir Munipov, a leading pioneer of the science of ergonomics in Russia, is an authority on the theory, practice, and history of ergonomics, industrial design, and labor psychology in the former USSR. Munipov was born in 1931 in Asbest city in Ural. After graduating in 1954 from the science department of the philosophy faculty at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU), he taught psychology and logic. From 1959 to 1962, he studied at the graduate school at MGU. From 1962 to 1992 he worked in the USSR Research Institute of Industrial Design (VNIITE). One of his teachers in ergonomics and work psychology was the famous psychologist S. Gellerstein, who as early as 1932 had advocated involvement of psychotechnics and sociotechnical design.
