Lyudmila Karachkina
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
In 1978 she began as a staff astronomer of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy at Leningrad. Her research at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory then focused on astrometry and photometry of minor planets. The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 130 minor planets, including the Amor asteroid 5324 Lyapunov and the Trojan asteroid 3063 Makhaon. In 2004, she received a Ph.D. in astronomy from Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
Lyudmila Karachkina has two daughters, Maria and Renata. The inner main-belt asteroid 8019 Karachkina, discovered by German astronomers Lutz D. Schmadel and Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg on 14 October 1990, was named in her honor. On 23 November 1999, the minor planet 8089 Yukar was named after her husband, Yurij Vasil'evicht Karachkin, a physics teacher at CrAO's school..List of discovered minor planets
| 2892 Filipenko | January 13, 1983 | |
| 3063 Makhaon | August 4, 1983 | |
| 3067 Akhmatova | October 14, 1982 | |
| 3068 Khanina | December 23, 1982 | |
| 3215 Lapko | January 23, 1980 | |
| 3286 Anatoliya | January 23, 1980 | |
| 3345 Tarkovskij | December 23, 1982 | |
| 3437 Kapitsa | October 20, 1982 | |
| 3453 Dostoevsky | September 27, 1981 | |
| 3469 Bulgakov | October 21, 1982 | |
| 3508 Pasternak | February 21, 1980 | |
| 3511 Tsvetaeva | October 14, 1982 | |
| 3516 Rusheva | October 21, 1982 | |
| 3620 Platonov | September 7, 1981 | |
| 3623 Chaplin | October 4, 1981 | |
| 3624 Mironov | October 14, 1982 | |
| 3668 Ilfpetrov | October 21, 1982 | |
| 3669 Vertinskij | October 21, 1982 | |
| 3675 Kemstach | December 23, 1982 | |
| 3750 Ilizarov | October 14, 1982 | |
| 3772 Piaf | October 21, 1982 | |
| 3946 Shor | March 5, 1983 | |
| 3982 Kastel' | May 2, 1984 | |
| 4017 Disneya | February 21, 1980 | |
| 4071 Rostovdon | September 7, 1981 | |
| 4075 Sviridov | October 14, 1982 | |
| 4080 Galinskij | August 4, 1983 | |
| 4258 Ryazanov | September 1, 1987 | |
| 4475 Voitkevich | October 20, 1982 | |
| 4483 Petofi | September 9, 1986 | |
| 4556 Gumilyov | August 27, 1987 | |
| 4625 Shchedrin | October 20, 1982 | |
| 4626 Plisetskaya | December 23, 1984 | |
| 4741 Leskov | November 10, 1985 | |
| 4785 Petrov | December 17, 1984 | |
| 4861 Nemirovskij | August 27, 1987 | |
| 4928 Vermeer | October 21, 1982 | |
| 4940 Polenov | August 18, 1986 | |
| 4996 Veisberg | August 11, 1986 | |
| 4997 Ksana | October 6, 1986 | |
| 5021 Krylania | November 13, 1982 | |
| 5093 Svirelia | October 14, 1982 | |
| 5094 Seryozha | October 20, 1982 | |
| 5199 Dortmund | September 7, 1981 | |
| 5234 Sechenov | November 4, 1989 | |
| 5247 Krylov | October 20, 1982 | |
| 5316 Filatov | October 21, 1982 | |
| 5324 Lyapunov | September 22, 1987 | |
| 5421 Ulanova | October 14, 1982 | |
| 5422 Hodgkin | December 23, 1982 | |
