The biographical genre is especially helpful when it comes to spiritual life, which is appropriate for covering all aspects of the historical process, in which the individual creative principle is put to the fore. There is a tendency to understand and define the role of specific scientists in the formation and development of science, and to assess the value of their work for modern researchers. In historical research, biographies of scientists are one of the scientific directions. The scientific and social activity of a scientist is a factor in the socio-cultural development of society.
This article describes the process of personality formation and the stage of scientific growth of academician A. S. Saginov. There is the information about his contribution to the development of technical education and science in Kazakhstan, and the role in the formation of engineering personnel of the Republic, scientific and pedagogical ideas of the scientist, implemented at the present time are considered too.