Nikolai Barabashov

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.

Nikolai Barabashov
Николай Барабашов
Barabashov in 1914
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) Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
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]

Honours and awards

• Hero of Socialist Labour
• Four Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour