Alenich Alexander Andreyevich General data:
07.04.1890 - 24.04.1923
Place of birth: Kamenskoe village, Ekaterynoslav province, Russian Empire (since 1917, Kamianske city, now the city of Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine)
Studied in: Imperial Moscow University (since 1940 M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University) (1911);
Key interests: minor bodies of the Solar System, physics, astronomy
Biography:
He was born April 7, 1890 in the Kamenskoe village of Ekaterynoslav province of the Russian Empire (since 1917, Kamianske city, now the city of Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine).
Ukrainian physicist and astronomer.
He studied at the first school in the Yekaterynoslav, where his family moved. While at the school, typing notes on astronomical topics in Ekaterinoslavsk's newspaper "Prydniprovsk territory."
In 1911 he graduated from Imperial Moscow University.
In 1915, with a diploma first degree he returned to Ekaterinoslav. Here he taught physics and mathematics in the first real school and private high school for boys and girls high school . After he worked as assistant in Ekaterinoslav Mining Institute.
In 1917, he became the founder of a small astronomical circle in the 1 grammar school of Ekaterynyslav, where he then worked. At the meetings that took place in the premises of the physical school of the gymnasium, the pupils of the circle made abstract messages, delivered reports on various astronomical themes, conducted observation of heavenly bodies in a telescope. In 1918, members of the circle began to produce in a small number of copies a hectographed magazine, in which articles and abstracts were published, mainly on astronomical topics. Before 1919, three issues were published.
In January 1919, he started working in Kamenetz-Podolsk Ukrainian State University, where he worked as assistant in the department of physics, and since April 1919 has been superintendent astronomer, October 1919 with descriptive astronomy taught the Physics and Mathematics Department, later taught spherical geometry and trigonometry. Since 1921 he worked in Kamenetz-Podolsk Institute of National Education in start as second secretary of the presidium of the Institute and later was secretary of the Faculty of Professional Education.
In August 1922, he resigned by reason "heart disease, nerve and acute anemia". April 24, 1923 died in Kamenetz-Podolsk.
He is known as a physicist, an astronomer. The main direction of his work was the reseach of meteorites, popularizer of astronomy.
Main publications:
1. Аленич А. А. Обитаема ли луна. — Москва, Тип. О. Л. Сомовой, 1912. - 28 с.
2. Аленич А. А. Про місяць. — Кам'янець-Подільський, 1920.
3. Аленич А. А. Сферична тригонометрія. — Кам'янець-Подільський, 1920.
4. Аленич А. А. Сферична геометрія. — Кам'янець-Подільський, 1920.
Sources:
1 Літнарович Р.М. Українські астрономи. За матеріалами
Вікіпедії станом на 10.06.2012 р. Рівне, 2012.- 258 с.-С.8-10
2 Енциклопедія українознавства. У 10-х томах. /
Головний редактор Володимир Кубійович. —Париж; Нью-Йорк: Молоде життя, 1954—1989. Словникова частина. — Т. 1. — С. 36.
3 Кутинський М. Некрополь України // Дніпро. — 1990. — № 1. — С. 137.
4 Завальнюк О. М. Аленич Олександр Андріанович // Енциклопедія сучасної України. — Т. 1. — К., 2001.
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