Mark Paverman was a Soviet and Russian symphony conductor and teacher. He was born in Odessa on May 26 (June 8), 1907. He studied composition at the Odessa Conservatory with Viktor Zolotaryov and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1930, where Konstantin Saradzhev taught him conducting.
From 1930 to 1934, Paverman worked with orchestras in Moscow. In 1934, he founded an orchestra for the Sverdlovsk Radio Committee; it became the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in 1936, and he led it until 1938. From 1938 to 1941, he directed the symphony orchestra in Rostov-on-Don. He then returned to Sverdlovsk and led its symphony orchestra until 1970.
Paverman also taught at the Ural Conservatory and became a professor in 1946. His students included Wolf Gorelik, Yevgeny Kolobov, Alexander Samuil, Garry Oganesov, Valery Platonov, Nariman Chunikhin, Pyotr Varivoda, Nikolai Golovanov, Vyacheslav Chistyakov, Andrei Dashunin, Anatoly Chepurnoy, and Enkhe (Enkhbaatar Baatarzhavyn). He won the First All-Union Conductors' Competition in 1938, was named Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1955, and People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1961. He died in Moscow on June 13, 1993, and was buried in Yekaterinburg.