Anatoliy Illich Gubinsky (1931-1990): Pioneer of Soviet Ergonomics

This publication is a continuation of a series of articles about the pleiad of brilliant engineering psychologists and ergonomists of the Soviet era. A.I. Gubinsky developed a generalized structural method that allowed describing and assessing the faultless and timely performance of discrete activity algorithms, subsequently developed by him and his disciples to the level of a functionally structural theory of the effectiveness, quality, and reliability of “human-machine-environment” systems. In 1985, A.I. Gubinsky organized and headed (first president) the Soviet Ergonomics Association, which united the USSR’s ergonomists and became a member of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). Under the leadership of A. I. Gubinsky, more than 40 candidate's and 7 doctoral theses were defended. With the direct participation of A.I. Gubinsky, the first dissertation Council in the USSR for awarding academic degrees in the scientific specialty "Ergonomics" was established at LETI.