Alexander Alexandrovich Skochinsky (Russian: Александр Александрович Скочинский; 13 July [O.S.

1 July] 1874 — 6 October 1960) was a Russian and Soviet mining scientist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1935), the chairman of the West Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1944–1951).

[1] Skochinsky was born in Olyokma, Russian Empire.

[1] In 1900, he graduated from the Mining Institute (Saint Petersburg), where he worked as a professor from 1906 to 1930.

[1] From 1938 to 1960, he was the director of Institute of Mining of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and from 1944 to 1951 he was the chairman of the West Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.