The article provides an analytical review of the impact of human capital (i.e. creative ideas and scientific achievements) of the school of the leader of Soviet psychology of the mid-twentieth century S. L. Rubinstein on the formation and development of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The initiative significance of the idea of the Deputy director of the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences S. L. Rubinstein about the need to create an Institute of Psychology in the academic system and the institutional promotion of the project developed by him is shown. The personology of students and their role in its organizational implementation in the IP RAS is characterized. For the first time, the constructive contribution to the development of the IP RAS of both participants of this school and scientists of other institutions in cooperation with psychologists of the classical and modern periods of Russian human studies has been systematically summarized.

The article analyzes two opposed views on determining the concept of a “lifestyle” and singles out essential part of the concept of the “cultural landscape”. Unique role of cultural landscapes in the prosess of forming a lifestyle of students of higher education is pointed out. As the leading methodological approaches to determining the level of students’ lifestyle in the cultural landscape, the article presents: coevolutionary subject-activity, transdisciplinary, integral, situational-integral, cultural-ecological and landscape-environmental methodological approaches. The article describes in detail an integrated diagnostic lifestyle map, as well as a map of a comprehensive assessment of projects, including tasks, solving criteria and performance indicators.