Sergey Belyavsky
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Sergey Ivanovich Belyavsky (Template:Langx; December 7, 1883 (Julian calendar: November 25) – October 13, 1953) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of 36 numbered minor planets.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
His last name is also alternatively spelled Beljavskij (name under which the Minor Planet Center credits him) 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 (Beljawsky), also known according to the nomenclature of the time as "Comet 1911 IV" or "Comet 1911g". Belyavsky observed at Simeiz Observatory (Симеиз) in Crimea. Between 1937 and 1944, Belyavsky was the seventh director of the Pulkovo Observatory, where he succeeded Boris Gerasimovich.
List of discovered minor planetsEdit
| 749 Malzovia | 5 April 1913 | Template:Small |
| 812 Adele | 8 September 1915 | Template:Small |
| 849 Ara | 9 February 1912 | Template:Small |
| 850 Altona | 27 March 1916 | Template:Small |
| 851 Zeissia | 2 April 1916 | Template:Small |
| 852 Wladilena | 2 April 1916 | Template:Small |
| 853 Nansenia | 2 April 1916 | Template:Small |
| 854 Frostia | 3 April 1916 | Template:Small |
| 855 Newcombia | 3 April 1916 | Template:Small |
| 856 Backlunda | 3 April 1916 | Template:Small |
| 857 Glasenappia | 6 April 1916 | Template:Small |
| 885 Ulrike | 23 September 1917 | Template:Small |
| 969 Leocadia | 5 November 1921 | Template:Small |
| 978 Aidamina | 18 May 1922 | Template:Small |
| 981 Martina | 23 September 1917 | Template:Small |
| 995 Sternberga | 8 June 1923 | Template:Small |
| 1001 Gaussia | 8 August 1923 | Template:Small |
| 1004 Belopolskya | 5 September 1923 | Template:Small |
| 1005 Arago | 5 September 1923 | Template:Small |
| 1006 Lagrangea | 12 September 1923 | Template:Small |
| 1031 Arctica | 6 June 1924 | Template:Small |
| 1062 Ljuba | 11 October 1925 | Template:Small |
| 1065 Amundsenia | 4 August 1926 | Template:Small |
| 1074 Beljawskya | 26 January 1925 | Template:Small |
| 1084 Tamariwa | 12 February 1926 | Template:Small |
| 1086 Nata | 25 August 1927 | Template:Small Template:Ref label |
| 1094 Siberia | 12 February 1926 | Template:Small |
| 1118 Hanskya | 29 August 1927 | Template:Small Template:Ref label |
| 1153 Wallenbergia | 5 September 1924 | Template:Small |
| 1224 Fantasia | 29 August 1927 | Template:Small Template:Ref label |
| 1621 Druzhba | 1 October 1926 | Template:Small |
| 1874 Kacivelia | 5 September 1924 | Template:Small |
| 1984 Fedynskij | 10 October 1926 | Template:Small |
| 2156 Kate | 23 September 1917 | Template:Small |
| 3134 Kostinsky | 5 November 1921 | Template:Small |
| 4509 Gorbatskij | 23 September 1917 | Template:Small |
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