В науката не можеш да кажеш нищо ново, без да разбуташ старото - не можеш само да надграждаш

As one of the first lecturers at the South-West Univeristy ‘Neofit Rilski’ – Blagoevgrad, Russi Russev relates his memories about the experience as assistant professor when he started his career in the late 1970-es leading student’s agricultural brigades which were compulsory part of the academic education. He describes also his struggle for more research independency against the prescribed Pavlov’s paradigm in the socialist sport science at that time as well as the opposition he had to overcome as young scientist for scientific recognition of his innovative research of coordination skills.