Talented Researcher of Developmental Education (to the 100- th Anniversary of G.I.Minskaya)

The article highlights the main milestones of the scientific and pedagogical activity of G.I. Minskaya — a prominent representative of the research team that developed an innovative system of developing training in the form of educational activities. It has revealed an important role of tentative research activities in changing the forms of children’s thinking. It is emphasized that G.I. Minskaya was at the origins of a large-scale experiment under the leadership of D.B. Elkonin and V.V. Davydov — headed the experiment at school № 11 in Tula. She has contributed to the identification of psychological and pedagogical conditions of teaching younger students to solve mathematical problems with alphabetic data.