Pavel Arsenov was an Armenian Soviet director and actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997). Born in Tbilisi. He studied at the Geological Prospecting Institute and graduated from the directing department of VGIK (1963, Grigory Roshal's workshop). Before studying at VGIK, he worked at the Georgia-Film studio and the Moscow Studio of Popular Science Films.

From 1962, he was a director at the Gorky Film Studio. He appeared in the film "Voices of Our Quarter" (directed by Yuri Erzinkyan). He was the artistic director of the Ladya studio from the moment of its founding. He passed away on August 12, 1999, in Moscow. He was buried at Shcherbinskoye Cemetery.