ALEKSANDR VASILYEVICH PANKIN (to the 150th anniversary of his birth)

The paper describes the life of the famous Russian and Soviet scientist, one of the founders of the doctrine of geometry of cutting tools, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Aleksandr Vasilyevich Pankin (1876 - 1963). Before the October Revolution, he was a full-time teacher at Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy; during the First World War, he organized the production of shells at factories in Southern Russia, and was a colonel. After the revolution, A.V. Punkin actively participated in training of engineering personnel in many universities of the USSR, organized and directed scientific developments in the field of metal cutting theory. In 1939-1941, A.V. Pankin was the head of the Department of Cutting and Toolmaking at Ordzhonikidzegrad Machine-Building Institute (now Bryansk State Technical University).