Pavel Vasilyevich Kopnin (Russian: Павел Васильевич Копнин; 27 January 1922 – 27 June 1971) was a Soviet philosopher, epistemologist, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

Born in to the family of a railroad worker, Kopnin studied and the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University.

He was enlisted in the Red Army during the Second World War and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1943.

[3] He taught as a professor at the Department of Dialectical Materialism at the Philosophical Faculty of Moscow State University.

[2] Kopnin was an author of scientific works on dialectical materialism, the theory of knowledge, methodology and the logic of science.