Boris Gerasimovich

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Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich (Russian: Борис Петрович Герасимович; March 19 [O.S. March 7] 1889 — June, 1937) was a Russian and Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist.

Gerasimovich was born in Kremenchug (now Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine).

From 1917 until 1933 he worked at the Kharkov University observatory. He became the director of the Pulkovo Observatory in 1933, but was arrested and executed during the Great Purge.

He had a daughter, Tatiana Borisovna Gerasimovich.

Gerasimovich crater on the Moon was named in his honor. A minor planet 2126 Gerasimovich discovered in 1970 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is also named after him. [1]

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  1. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, 5th, New York: Springer Verlag, p. 172. ISBN 3540002383. 

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