Acc. Professor Liudmila Alekseevna Verbitskaja’s opening speech

I am very pleased that most of the people in this room can be called students of St. Petersburg University. On this very day that is dedicated to the founding of the city of St. Petersburg (which it is important to emphasize), an event has taken place that is not only important for St. Petersburg State University, but for all Russian higher education institutions and very important for the entire worldwide education system.
Within a university it is always a major event when a chair is opened.
For this reason the University’s Scientific Board, which meets in this hall, has very seriously examined the Scientific Board of the Department of Psychology’s decision to open the chair of Ontopsychology in the Department of Psychology.
A new scientific school is born with the opening of the chair of Ontopsychology. What I consider most important is that the head of worldwide Ontopsychology is an extraordinary person.
It is often very difficult to answer the question: “In what scientific sector did Lomov pursue his studies?”.
He was chancellor of the first St. Petersburg University for seven years. Later, after thirty-one years, he opened the University with a location in Moscow.
How can Lomov be known within our science?
He was an extraordinary chemist, an extraordinary physicist, and philologists also claim him as one of their own because he was an incredible poet.
In the tradition of the University, he is a man who is well-known in a vast range of fields and sectors. I am very grateful to Professor Meneghetti because he planned and organized this project.
Now we are here today to continue what he began. Another question that is difficult to answer: “Who is Professor Meneghetti?” Because he is an incredible artist, an exceptional musical composer, an incredible philosopher, a man who has deep knowledge of all subjects that have to do with politics and economics of our time.
Today, it is Professor Meneghetti’s greatest talent that we are celebrating; he is a psychologist and founder of Ontopsychology.
I feel that Ontopsychology truly fits extraordinarily within the education that St. Petersburg University gives because at the university we try to represent the best scientists and especially include sciences that let us study the most complex subject, the human being. Everyone might agree with me on this.
I am sure that Ontopsychology is very important because in studying the person at different times of his life gives us the chance to go into the deep interiority of the person into that which can simply be called the human soul.
In Russia, we consider the soul the most important part of the person.
First of all, I am certainly very grateful to Prof. Meneghetti who gave me the chance to learn about Ontopsychology.
I remember the lessons I attended with immense pleasure.
I also thank Prof. Albert Aleksandrovich Krylov, who has supported this idea from the start, and of course for us, for Prof. Krylov and for Prof. Grishina it was a great honor when we conferred the first specialization diplomas in Rome.
My deep gratitude also goes to Dean Larisa Tsvetkova Aleksandrova who, even before becoming Dean had experienced the practical application of Ontopsychological science.
A big thanks to all of the teachers of the Department of Psychology who for many years have painstakingly prepared the event that we are celebrating today: the opening of the chair of Ontopsychology
And a special thanks to all of our students.
Without students, the chair, the structural unit of the entire University, could not exist and there could ultimately be no University.
The students are clearly what counts most in the University.
Thank you all very much.