Sergey Blazhko

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Sergey Nikolaevich Blazhko (Сергей Николаевич Блажко in Russian) (November 5(17), 1870 - February 11, 1956, Moscow) was a Soviet astronomer, corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929), head of the Moscow Observatory in 1918-1931.

Sergey Blazhko was awarded USSR State Prize (1952), two Orders of Lenin, two other orders and numerous medals. A crater on the Moon is named after him.

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