In the interview of B.Z. Doktorov with prof. G.E. Zborovsky, dedicated to his 85th birthday, the questions of the respondent’s sociological creativity are considered. In theoretical terms, these are the problems of the sociology of time (free and social), the sociology of education (including higher education), the history of sociology, the development of the theory of social community, the meta–paradigm concept of theoretical sociology, the concept of scientific and educational knowledge. Within the framework of the educational process and educational activities, the respondent’s involvement in the development of sociological education is shown: writing textbooks on general sociology, the history of sociology, the sociology of education, management, leisure, culture; training doctors and candidates of sciences; working as a vice-rector of the university, director of the institute, dean, head of the department.