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Abalakin Viktor Kuzmich

General data:

27.08.1930 - 23.04.2018

Place of birth: Odessa city, Odessa region, Ukrainian SSR

Studied in: I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University (since 2000, I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University) (1953);

Key interests: celestial mechanics, ephemeris astronomy, stellar dynamics, geodynamics, history of astronomy. PhD Thesis: On periodic motion of stars within ellipsoidal stellar clusters (1961 A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad Order of Lenin State University); ScD Thesis: Methods of constructing astronomical ephemeris for space research (1982 Main Astronomical Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Pulkovo);

Biography:

He was born on August 27, 1930 in Odessa city of Odessa region of the Ukrainian SSR in the family of a shipbuilding engineer. Homeland has Siberian roots, Orthodox religion.

In 1953 graduated from I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University. During 1953-1955 he worked at the Geophysical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow City, where he became a student of O. Schmidt, in 1955-1557 at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). After graduating from graduate school of I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University under the scientific direction of V. P. Tsesevich, he worked in the Observatory of I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University in 1960-1963. In 1963-1965 he was Associate Professor of the Department of Astronomy at the Odessa University. Since 1965 he has been the head of the Department of the Astronomical Yearbook of the USSR at the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. During 1983-2000, at the same time he is still working as director of the Pulkovo Observatory. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR since 1987 on the specialty "Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Physics" Department of General Physics and Astronomy. He was Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991.

In 1961 he defended them at the A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad University on the topic "On periodic motion of stars within ellipsoidal stellar clusters".

In 1982 he defended his doctoral dissertation on ephemeris astronomy on the topic "Methods of constructing astronomical ephemeris for space research". The defense took place at the meeting of the Academic Council of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Pulkovo.

He included in the Scientific Council on Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Section 9: "Astrometry and Applied Astronomy".

Died in April 23, 2018.

The main scientific work relates to the following sections: celestial mechanics, ephemeris astronomy, stellar dynamics, geodynamics, history of astronomy. Monographs: "Fundamentals of Ephemeris Astronomy" (1979), co-author of "Reference Guide to Celestial Mechanics, Astronomy and Astrodynamics" (1978). In these works, ephemeris astronomy was finalized as an independent area of science. Co-author of the cycle of works on the creation of a unified relativistic theory of motion of the inner planets of the solar system. In 1976-1979 he was the president of the commission number 4: "Ephemeris" of the International Astronomical Union.

Since 1999 he has been the Chairman of the Board of the Internet Culture Foundation.

In 1982 astronomer became a laureate of the State Prize of the USSR. In 2006 he was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of the 2nd Degree of the Russian Federation. In 2008 he was awarded the V. Ya Struve Memorial Medal, founded by the Academic Council of the Main (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008, for the great contribution to The development of astronomy named Abalakin is an asteroid 2722, discovered by N.S. Chernyh on April 1, 1976 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. In the name of Abalakin the small planet of the solar system is named 7785 ABS.

Main publications:
  1. Абалакин В. К., Аксенов Е. П., Гребеников Е. А., Демин В. Г., Рябов Ю. А. Справочное руководство по небесной механике и астродинамике. Изд. 2. - Москва: Издание "Наука", 1976. - 864с.
  2. Абалакин В. К., Аксенов Е. П., Гребеников Е. А., Демин В. Г., Рябов Ю. А. Справочное руководство по небесной механике и астродинамике. - Москва: Издание "Наука", 1971. - 584 с.
  3. Абалакин В. К. Основы эфемеридной астрономии М: Наука, 1979. - 448 с.
  4. Абалакин В. К. Основы эфемеридной астрономии М: Наука, 1979. - 448 с.

Sources:
  1 astronomers.ru
  2 uk.wikipedia.org
  3 slovari.yandex.ru
  4 ras.ru