Background
Anosov was the son of a petty clerk, became an orphan 13 years old. When his father died he left four young children-orphans: two older brothers, Peter and Pavel, and two younger sisters.
Anosov was the son of a petty clerk, became an orphan 13 years old. When his father died he left four young children-orphans: two older brothers, Peter and Pavel, and two younger sisters.
Family name is Anosov, name is Pavel and father"s name is Petrovich. Peter died. The extraordinary abilities of Pavel was marked in the Corps and his special penchant for mathematics in which he made a great success as well as in other higher sciences. In 1817 he completed a Mining corps (Mountain corps) and joined the Zlatoust state factories as a trainee.
The other was remaining a virgin at the time of the death of Paul Anosov, was "in a morbid state of their home in the Ural factories".
Career in Zlatoust. After completion of the corps he worked in Zlatoust Mining District from 1817 to 1847:
1817–1819 – a trainee;
1819–1821 – a caretaker of "decorated department" at the Arms factory;
1821–1824 – an assistant of the Arms factory steward;
1824–1831 – the control of the arms factory;
1831–1847 – the Mining Head and at the same time the director of the arms factory;
1847–1851 – The Head of the Altai Mountains plants and civilian governor of Tomsk. According to the military ranks for twenty years Anosov was promoted from a trainee (lieutenant) to general"s rank.
He explained the effect of the chemical composition, structure and treatment of steel on its properties. His findings formed the basis for the science of quality steels.
Anosov summed up his studies in his now classical treatise, ‘On Damaskene’ (1841), immediately translated into German and French.
Anosov was the first to use the microscope in studies into the structure of steel (1831), thus laying the foundation for the microscopic analysis of metals. Steamship Nezhin
Steamship Metallurg Anosov.
Anosov was elected a corresponding member of the Kazan University (1844) and an honorary member of the Kharkov University (1846).