The name of the famous scientist-naturalist, public, political and statesman Academician Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945) is firmly connected in world and domestic thought with the concept of the noosphere - the doctrine of the place of man and the rational principle in the world. In solving this problem, he proceeded from a new concept of world history, the driving principle of which he considered the process of knowledge and scientific development of reality. On its basis, V.I. Vernadsky developed the idea of ​ ​ scientific thought as a geological force with which a person transforms his nature and social structure.