The analysis of biographical materials, interviews and memoirs of students and employees of Academician of the Russian Academy of Education A. A. Bodalev and director of school No. 22 in Kuibyshev (Samara) V. D. Ostrovsky is carried out. The general, special and singular at the main stages of life and in the personality characteristics of both Teachers— the creators of author’s schools are singled out, memories of them are presented.

in St. Petersburg analysis in the context of the use of retro-innovations to ensure the optimization of professional training of future teachers in the context of modernization of the domestic education system. A brief assessment of the role and place of the phenomenon of «retroinnovation» in the context of reforming education system in Russia and in the NorthWest region on the example of Saint Petersburg.