Florja Nikolai Fedorovich General data:
06.10.1912 - 1941-10-??
Place of birth: Odessa city, Kherson province, Russian Empire
Key interests: photometry of Solar System bodies, minor bodies of the Solar System, photometry, variable stars, exploration of the Moon, Galaxy structure
Biography:
He was born 6 (on the Julian calendar or 19 on the Gregorian calendar) October 1912 in Odesa city of Kherson province of the Russian Empire in the Fedor Filaretovich Florya's family who was priest, teacher of Latin and Greek languages in Odessa gymnasium.
Being a disciple of 5th class work and school degree, boy became interested in astronomy. In 1925 he equipped his own observatory in Attic house in which he lived, where established binoculars, telescope and then later he was involved in urban folk astronomy observatory. Favourite area was Algol-type stars and Cepheids.
Afterfinished with training in the seven-year school he studied at the Technical profession School -II degree, which was later converted into chemical College.
After finishing school in 1930, at the invitation Tsesevych V.P. he moved to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and settled in house of astronomer Lange G. A. during the day time he worked on drawings in a factory in Leningrad, and on clear nights watched variable stars useing Culver's 300 millimeter reflector which was mounted on the roof of Lange G.A.
In 1932 became Fellow Tashkent Observatory, working as accompanying excursion groups and demonstrator, which deals with variable stars.
During 1935 (according to some sources the summer of 1936)-1940 he worked as a research secretary in P.K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute.
When the Great Patriotic War, he was the senior employee in P.K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute and have names scholarship and successfully completed work on his dissertation on the absorption of light in interstellar space, which was published by his colleagues in 1949.
He was married and has two sons.
During World War II he was assistant platoon commander management 2nd battery of 975 Artillery regiment 8th Krasnopresnensky militia division of Moscow City. He took part in repelling the Spas- Demyansky breakthrough and caught in precipitated southwest Vyazma. Latest information about him is dated October 5, 1941. Further his fate is unknown, his name was listed in the list of missing. Probably he died in Vyazmsky boiler.
He has worked in the field of observation of variable stars. Author of more than 30 scientific articles. In addition, he has published many scientific and popular articles, especially for children, in the journal "Pioneer" and the newspaper "Pioneer truth" and notes in the "Chronicle" of various meetings, conferences and plenums Astrorady USSR, articles institute wall newspaper "Vladilen", of which he was editor in 1937 - 1939. Also on the Rosenberg photometer at the Tajik Astronomical Observatory in Dushanbe city he spent photometric changes integrated light of the moon during lunar eclipses October 26, 1931 and September 14, 1932. and measured the brightness of Pluto in 1930 to 1933 saw a solar eclipse August 21, 1933 also observed the asteroid. He studied the absorption of light in interstellar space for a large number of areas, using color indicators of many stars, including weak. Determined distribution of absorbing matter within ± 25 pk from the Galactic plane.
Parenago P.P., Kukarkin B.V. and Florea M.F. found, as a result of revision of the basic stellar statistical data on globular clusters, a clear relationship between color excesses of clusters and their linear diameters.
Main publications:
1. К наблюдениям Сатурна в 1929 году (рекомендации для наблюдателей и таблицы эфемерид на этот год)/ Флоря Н. Ф..— Мироведение, т. 18, № 3 (68), с. 211—212 (1929).
2. Das physiologische Phänomen der Anziehung der Schätzung der Helligkeit/Florja N.F.— ПЗ. т. 2, № 5 (17), c. 21—22.(1929)
3. Über das physiologische Phänomen der Anziehung der Schätzung der Helligkeit/ Florja N.F., Tsesevich V. P.— ПЗ, т 2, № 5 (17), c. 22—23 (1929)
4. Der Antalgolstern RZ Сер / Florja N.F.— AN Bd. 242 № 11, S. 289-296 (1931)
Sources:
1 Колчинский И. Г., Корсунь А. А., Родригес М. Г. Астрономы: Биографический справочник. — Киев: Наук. думка, 1986.—510 с.-C.329
2 ru.wikipedia.org
3 Куликовский П.Г. Николай Федорович Флоря. -ЗиВ, 1985, №3, с.48-51
4 biografija.ru
