Andrey Pakhomov was born in St. Petersburg in 1947.
In 1971 he graduated from the graphics school of St Petersburg's Repin's institute of Arts.
The artist is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of arts, and has the title of an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation.
Since 1966 has taken part in many exhibitions in Russia and abroad, among them he had several personal exhibitions at home and in Germany and Austria. He works in painting and drawing, books illustration and easel graphics. He has illustrated and designed over thirty works by Russian and foreign authors. Andrey Pakhomov is the head of his personal workshop and the graphics chair at St Petersburg's Repin's institute of Arts.