Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Pavlov was an outstanding scientist in the field of geometric surface modeling, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department of Descriptive Geometry, Engineering and Computer Graphics (1965–1989), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine (1994), Honored Worker of Higher Education of Ukraine (1972), organizer of the world-renowned scientific school of applied geometry.
Anatoliy Pavlov was born on June 16, 1919, in Kyiv. His father was an engineer and pilot. His mother was a teacher. In 1937, he began studying at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, specializing in “Machines, Tools, and Mechanical Processing of Metals.” After graduating in 1941, he was assigned to the Kyiv Aviation Plant, with which he was evacuated to the city of Novosibirsk, where he worked as a senior technologist in the stamping and tool shop of the V.P. Chkalov Aircraft Plant. This plant produced more than 25 fighter planes per day.
It was there that the direction of his future scientific activity related to aircraft construction took shape. While researching methods of descriptive and applied geometry with the aim of creating a technology for constructing geometric models of complex surfaces, he obtained scientific results that formed the basis of his candidate and doctoral dissertations. The research was carried out in collaboration with the O.K. Antonov Kyiv Mechanical Plant, the Kyiv Aviation Production Association, and the Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Technology. As a result of this collaboration, the Sigma and Sigrant geometric calculation systems were created at enterprises in the industry. Under the guidance of A.V. Pavlov, 11 engineers from two aviation plants in Kyiv successfully completed their postgraduate studies and defended their candidate dissertations. Three of them became doctors of science.
He worked at KPI since 1946. His further research was aimed at developing new methods of geometric modeling based on computer information technologies and the development of related areas – multidimensional geometry and model-experimental design of working surfaces of soil cultivation implements. In this field, the department's teachers received more than 100 author's certificates for inventions, 12 patents (Ukraine, GDR, France, China, India, Hungary, Bulgaria), and created industrial and serial models of agricultural equipment, which were awarded medals by the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements.
As a scientific supervisor, A.V. Pavlov has trained 29 candidates of science, 7 of whom have become doctors of science. He is the author of 164 scientific works, including 3 monographs and 22 author's certificates for inventions. He created a course of video lectures on descriptive geometry, which is used by modern students and fits logically into distance learning. This course still helps teachers improve their qualifications and lecturing skills. The scientific school he created continues to exist: under the guidance of Anatoliy Volodymyrovych's students, research is being conducted by young scientists.