The development of historical and psychological knowledge in different countries, differing in chronological framework, the direction of the issues under consideration and the content of ideas with different methodology and names. Definition of science in activity psychology. Historical psychology is a science that reveals dependencies between historical and psychological phenomena and describes the patterns of personality formation as an object and subject of the historical process. The subject of historical psychology in the psychology of activity in accordance with I.G. Belyavsky - the sociogenesis of the human psyche in the historical process. V.A. Shkuratov defines historical psychology as a field of knowledge aimed at studying “the psychological makeup of individual historical eras, as well as changes in the psyche and personality of a person in a special cultural macro-time called history.” Definition of historical psychology and its subject by E.Yu. Bobrova. Tasks of historical psychology. 1. Study of the historical conditioning of the psyche. I.G. Belyavsky believes that the main task of historical psychology is to reveal the historiogenesis of the psyche. 2. Along with considering the formation of the psyche during evolution, an equally important task is its structural and functional study at different stages of the development of human civilization and history. 3. Historical psychology also sets the task of studying the psychological factors of the historical process at different stages of its development. The desire to comprehending history through consideration of the actions of a people or a historical figure is seen as one of such factors. Research methods of historical psychology. 1. Reconstructive methods: normative-semiotic means of identifying and “finishing” an object into a sociocultural fact. 2. Interpretive methods: ordinary and classical hermeneutics; analytical historiography and phenomenological reduction. 3. Theoretical and empirical with analysis of the products of human activity. Psychological-historical research as a unity of experience and knowledge.