"Regulations concerning psychological service in school", drafted on the basis of some years of practical-experimental work, contain the following principal divisions: a) basic goals of the service, of which the central ones are provision of the individual approach to pupils, diagnostics, correction, and prevention of backwardness in learning, in intellectual development and in the development of personality, as well as of undesired behavior; b) main lines of work: psychoprophylactics, diagnostics, correction, consultation; c) provision of scientific grounds for the service; d) rights and duties of the school psychologist. Some debatable issues connected with organization of the school psychological service within the USSR educational system are discussed.