Born in
Stavropol, he graduated from the
Tiflis Realschule in 1896, the
St. Petersburg Archeological Institute in 1900, and the St. Petersburg Technological Institute in 1902. In 1920, he helped to organize the Museum of Azerbaijani History and was elected to the Academic Association of the
University of Baku where he chaired the Department of Archeology and Numismatics from 1922 to 1930. He attained to the title of Professor at the Azerbaijani State University in 1945, and chaired the Department of Archaeology there from 1947 to 1953. Pakhomov was granted the title of the Meritorious Scholar of the
Azerbaijan SSR in 1955 and elected as a corresponding member of the
Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences in 1962. Pakhomov authored some of the most influential works on the numismatics of
Georgia and
Azerbaijan. His unique numismatic collections were bequeathed to the museums of Tbilisi, Baku, and
Leningrad. Some coins were obtained by the
Armenian museum, while others were acquired by private collectors. Pakhomov is the author of
Coins of Georgia, published in 1970. The articles of Pakhomov are in the process of digitization and upload on the special page on academia.edu. == References ==