On September 28, 2022, the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (UrFU) hosted the opening of the VII Congress of the Russian Psychological Society (RPS) and the All-Russian Psychological Forum, which were attended by over a thousand specialists from 70 regions of the Russian Federation. The official opening ceremony was held in the Assembly Hall of UrFU.

A special issue of the International Journal of Early Years Education dedicated to the memory of prominent child psychologists Elena Kravtsova and Elena Smirnova has been published. This issue considers modern approaches to the problem of play in the context of a cultural-historical theory.

Co-editors of the issue are professor of the Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, leading researcher of the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education Nikolay Veraksa and Professor of the Free University Amsterdam  Bert van Oers.

The issue can be found here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ciey20/30/3

The Springer has published the book Piaget and Vygotsky in the 21st century: Discourse in early childhood education, edited by Professor of the University of Gothenburg Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson and Professor of the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, leading researcher at the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education Nikolay Veraksa.