In 2025, it would have been 120 years since the birth of scientist and teacher Afanasy Ilyich Agroskin. This man dedicated his entire life to training of geodetic personnel in Siberia. A. I. Agroskin became an assistant at the Siberian Astronomy Geodetic Institute (Omsk) in1933. After the reorganization of the institute, he moved to Novosibirsk, where he was actively involved in teaching. In 1939, he was appointed the Director of the newly founded Novosibirsk Institute of Engineers of Geodesy, Aerial Photography and Cartography (NIIGAiK). During the Great Patriotic War, Afanasy Ilyich served in the 64th geodetic detachment, then in the military topographic department of the Volkhov Front headquarters, and from 1944 to1946 he was the Head of the topographic department of the 3rd Attack Army headquarters. Major Agroskin took an active part in supplying the army with topographic plans and maps during the Berlin operation. After the war, he returned to NIIGAiK and worked as Director for five years. From 1955 to 1957, he was on a foreign mission, where he gave a course of lectures on higher geodesy for his Chinese colleagues. Professor A. I. Agroskin headed the departments of geodesy and higher geodesy. During his years at the institute, he participated in training and education of thousands of geodetic engineers