Kolchinskii Ilija Grigorovich General data:
13.05.1913 - 02.01.2004
Place of birth: Kiev city, Kiev province, Russian empire
Studied in: Kyiv State University (since 1999 Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University) (1938); Kyiv Chemical Technical School (1928-1931);
Key interests: stellar dynamics, history of astronomy, astronomy, geophysics, stellar systems, popularization of astronomy. PhD Thesis: The study of atmospheric dispersion (1947 Astronomical Observatory, T. G. Shevchenko Kyiv State University); ScD Thesis: The study of the refraction of light in the earth's atmosphere (1969 Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR);
Biography:
He was born on May 13 (according to other sources 3) May 1913 in Kyiv City of Kyiv province of the Russian Empire.
During 1928-1931 he studied at the Kyiv Chemical Technical School.
in 1938 he graduated from Kyiv State University where he entered in 1933. And in 1941 he graduated from graduate school at the university. From 1946 he worked as a senior researcher at the Astronomical Observatory.
In 1947 he defended his dissertation "Investigation of Atmospheric Dispersion" at the Astronomical Observatory of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University.
In 1949-1983 he worked at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, where from 1958 to 1974 he was head of the Department of Photographic Astrometry, and from 1976 to 1988 he was a scientific consultant.
In 1969 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences "Study of the refraction of light in the Earth's atmosphere" at the Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
He was a member of the International Astronomical Union and a member of the editorial board of the journal "Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies" and the annual "Astronomical Calendar".
He was actively involved in the promotion of scientific knowledge.
He died on January 2, 2004, and was buried in Kyiv City.
He is a well-known specialist in the theory of refraction and the study of the influence of the atmosphere on astronomical observations. He determined the exact positions of planets and nebulae by the photographic method on a large astrograph, studied the phenomena of flickering stars and atmospheric turbulence.
He also studied stellar systems. In particular, he and E. A. Getz, according to the relative natural motions of 800 stars in the scattered star cluster NGC 6910, studied the structure of this cluster and determined its size. He paid great attention to research on the history of astronomy. Thanks to the efforts of the scientist at the Main Astronomical Observatory, one of the first in the USSR dual long-focus astrograph Tepfer-Steingel was installed and put into operation, with the help of which research in the field of photographic astrometry and atmospheric optics was started and developed. One of the initiators of the international observation program "Photographic Review of the Northern Sky" (FON), which he and A. B. Onegina first reported in 1975 at a scientific meeting in Kiev. Twenty-five years later, astronomers at the Main Astronomical Observatory created the first version of the FONAC catalog (FON + Astrographic Catalog) based on observations of this program, which contains the positions, proper motions, and some photometric characteristics of more than 2 million northern stars. He was the author of almost 100 scientific and popular science books, brochures and articles 3 astronomy.
Main publications:
1. Колчинский И. Г., Корсунь А. А., Родригес М. Г. Астрономы: Биографический справочник. — Киев: Наук. думка, 1986.—510 с.
2. Колчинский И. Г. Оптическая нестабильность земной атмосферы по наблюдениям звезд.- К.: Наук. думка, 1967. - 184с.
3. Иванов Г. А., Колчинский И. Г., Рыбка С. П., Харченко Н. В. Яценко А. И. Уравнение блеска в фотографической астрометрии. - К.: Наук. думка, 1988. - 92с.
4. Колчинский И. Г., Корсунь А. А., Родригес М. Г. Астрономы: Биографический справочник. — Киев: Наук. думка, 1977.—416 с.
Sources:
1 Плеяда перших. Київ: Академперіодика, 2004. – С.29
2 Ботвінова В.В. Перелік дисертацій на здобуття вченого ступеня доктора (кандидата) фізико-математичних наук, виконаних в Головній астрономічній обсерваторії Національної академії наук України в 1944-1993рр. //50 років Головній астрономічній обсерваторії / Під ред. Яцківа Я.С. - Київ, 1994.-320с.- С.304
3 Список дисертацій, захищених співпобітниками ГАО/Головна астрономічна обсерваторія Національної академії наук України: від ідеї створення до міжнародного визнання/За редакцією Я. С. Яцківа.-Київ: Наукова думка, 2018.-376 с.-С.327, 338
4 Українські фізики та астрономи. Посібник-довідник/Автор-укладач В. Шаронова.-Тернопіль: Підручники і посібники, 2007.-304 с.-С. 202
