Sergey Belyavsky


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Sergey Ivanovich Belyavsky was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of 36 numbered minor planets.
His last name is also alternatively spelled Beljavskij or Beljawskij. His first name is occasionally given as "Sergius". He was born in St. Petersburg and was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. His field of work included astrophotometry, astrometry, and the study of variable stars. He died in Leningrad.
He discovered the bright naked-eye comet C/1911 S3, also known according to the nomenclature of the time as "Comet 1911 IV" or "Comet 1911g". Belyavsky observed at Simeiz Observatory in Crimea. Between 1937 and 1944, Belyavsky was the seventh director of the Pulkovo Observatory, where he succeeded Boris Gerasimovich.

List of discovered minor planets

749 Malzovia5 April 1913
812 Adele8 September 1915
849 Ara9 February 1912
850 Altona27 March 1916
851 Zeissia2 April 1916
852 Wladilena2 April 1916
853 Nansenia2 April 1916
854 Frostia3 April 1916
855 Newcombia3 April 1916
856 Backlunda3 April 1916
857 Glasenappia6 April 1916
885 Ulrike23 September 1917
969 Leocadia5 November 1921
978 Aidamina18 May 1922
981 Martina23 September 1917