Abstract
The historical and scientific analysis of S.L. Rubinstein’s life activity provides key and little-known facts of biography, summarizes the philosophical and psychological achievements of him and the school he created in the study of cognitive processes (sensations and perception, thinking and reflection, understanding and social representations) and metacognitive states of consciousness of a person and her cognition of being in the world. The main periods of intellectual searches and individual creativity of S.L. Rubinstein as a subject of cognition are differentiated. The panorama of the integral evolution of his school as a group subject of the collectively distributed activity of S.L. Rubinstein’s students, who developed his traditions in the institutes of philosophy and psychology of the Academy of Sciences, is studied. The fundamental and applied achievements of the participants and followers of his school, who created innovative concepts and original approaches promising in the development of topical problems of modern psychological science and the human knowledge system as a whole, are characterized.