Pinsky Arkady Aronovich (born 1922, Rechitsa, Minsk Governorate) - educator.

Arkady Pinsky earned a Doctorate in Pedagogical Sciences in 1977, became a professor in 1983, and was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education in 1995.

In 1942–1943 he served at the front. After graduating from the Gomel Pedagogical Institute in 1945, he worked as a teacher in schools in Slonim, Gomel, Riga, and Moscow. From 1958 to 1971 he headed the Department of Physics at the Kaliningrad Institute of Fisheries Technology and Economy. From 1971 he worked at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR as a leading research fellow in the Laboratory of Physics Education at the Research Institute for the Content and Methods of Teaching.

His research focused on the role and place of relativistic, quantum, and statistical ideas in the teaching of physics in secondary and higher education. He substantiated the possibility of introducing the fundamentals of the theory of relativity at an early stage of the educational process. He also developed approaches to integrating physics with other natural science subjects in secondary school, particularly astronomy, mathematics, and electrical engineering. He was the author of textbooks and methodological guides.

Selected works:

Problems in Physics (Задачи по физике). Moscow, 1977.

Fundamentals of Physics (Основы физи­ки), vols. 1–2, 3rd ed. Moscow, 1981 (with B. M. Yavorsky).

Methods of Teaching Physics in Secondary School (Методика преподавания физики в средней школе). Moscow, 1989 (editor and co-author).