Pavel Petrovich Anosov

Pavel Petrovich Anosov (Russian: Аносов Павел Петрович) (10 July 1796 (Old Calendar, 29 June),[1] Tver — 25 May 1851 (Old Calendar, 13 May[2]) was a Russian mining engineer, a metallurgical scientist, a major organizer of the mining industry, a researcher of the nature of the Southern Ural, governor of Tomsk and a General-Major.

When his father died he left four young children as orphans: two older brothers, Peter and Pavel, and two younger sisters.

The orphans took over the education of their maternal grandfather, mining official Sabakin Lev Fedorovich who was a mechanic in the Kama plants in Izhevsk and Votkinsk.

[2] Anosov received international attention for his writings on the manufacture of iron and his re-discovery of the secret of Damascene steel, previously thought lost in the Middle Ages.

Anosov summed up his studies in his now classic treatise, Damascene steels (1841), which was immediately translated into German and French.