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Nikolai Barabashov
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Nikolai Pavlovich Barabashov (Russian: Николай Павлович Барабашов; Ukrainian: Микола Павлович Барабашов, romanized: Mykola Pavlovych Barabashov; March 30, 1894 – April 29, 1971) was a Soviet astronomer.
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Born | Nikolai Pavlovich Barabashov (1894-03-30)30 March 1894 Kharkov, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) |
Died | 29 April 1971(1971-04-29) (aged 77) |
Citizenship | Russian Empire, Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Kharkiv University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astronomy |
Institutions | Kharkiv Observatory, Kharkiv University |
Barabashov was born in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine). He graduated from Kharkiv University in 1919; served as Director, Kharkiv Observatory, 1930; Professor, Kharkiv University, 1934; Rector, Kharkiv University, 1943-1946. He became a member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences in 1948.
He was a co-author of the ground breaking publication of the first pictures of the far side of the Moon in 1961, called Atlas of the Other Side of the Moon. Barabashov, crater on Mars, was named in his honor in 1973.[1] 2883 Barabashov, a minor planet discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, is named after him.[2]