There, in parallel with his studies at a local school, he worked as a hospital orderly and a grinder at a military factory.

Since 1946 he studied physics, and since 1949 - at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University (MSU), which he graduated with honors in 1953.

From the 1950s Shchedrovitsky developed a series of seminars which attracted mathematicians, psychologists, historians, architects, sociologists and physicians who focused their discussions of logical and epistemological issues.

[3] He was a member of the CPSU from 1956 to 1968, was expelled from the party after he signed the so-called "Letter of 170" in support of Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov.

During his lifetime, he published only his two pamphlets, two collective monographs with his participation and about one and a half hundred separate articles written individually or in collaboration.

The regulations of the MMC methodological seminars (at least since 1957) included: the rule of an absence of "ownership of ideas" and orientation to fixing the results in the form of collective monographs.

Most of these books were prepared by a team that included the brother of the late philosopher, L. P. Shchedrovitsky, and his widow, G. A. Davydov, who founded the Heritage of the MMC publishing house in 2004.

[4] These games were based on an application of Vygotsky's content-genetic logic to develop method of collective problem solving.