Adolf Ulyanovich Kharash died on March 2, 2012. A social psychologist, a unique specialist in the field of communication psychology, he began work at the D. Uznadze Institute of Psychology, worked in the sociological laboratory of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, taught at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University; created the center for humanitarian innovations «Lisa», was the author and expert of Psychologies.
He said that his biggest problem was the combination of his first name and patronymic. And smiled. And he paused. Adolf Harash was born on July 17, 1940 in Tbilisi. A social psychologist, a unique specialist in the field of psychology of communication, he began work at the Institute of Psychology named after D. Uznadze, worked in the sociological laboratory of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, taught at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University; created the center for humanitarian innovations «Lisa», was the author and expert of Psychologies. One of the first in the country, Adolf Harash began to engage in psychotherapy and psychological counseling. He worked with the victims of the Chernobyl disaster, with the victims of the Spitak earthquake, in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict in 1992. And until the last day he led groups of developing personal training and a master class for psychologists.
He always wrote a lot. He came up with the first popular psychological journal in our country, Psychology for All, its only issue was published in 1993. His paradoxical articles, including What Catastrophes Teach Us and The Psychology of Loneliness, are among the most read on the internet.