Mikhaylov Vladimir Alexandrovich General data:
15.02.1901 - 03.02.1955
Place of birth: Kharkov City, Kharkiv province, Russian Empire
Studied in: Kharkiv Institute of Public Education (since 1999 V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) (1926); Imperial Kharkiv University, Kharkiv province, Russian Empire (since 1999 V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv region, Ukraine) (08-11. 1919);
Key interests: physics of comets. PhD Thesis: Awarded the academic title of Candidate of Astronomical Sciences (without defense, for a set of scientific papers) (1936 A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University);
Biography:
He was born on February 15, 1901 in the Kharkiv city of Kharkiv province of the Russian Empire in the family of a doctor.
In 1911, the boy entered the Kharkiv city 1st male gymnasium, where he paid attention to the study of mathematics. According to archival documents that have been preserved, high school student V. Mykhailov, among the few (only out of 41), excelled in cosmography and the French language.
After graduating from the 8th grade in August 1919, he entered the first course of the physics and mathematics faculty (astronomy section) of the Imperial Kharkiv University.
He fought in the ranks of the Volunteer Army of general A.I. Denikin since November 1919, later military roads and collisions of fate led him to the ranks of the Red Army in October 1920.
In 1926, he graduated from the Kharkiv State Institute of Public Education, in the first year of the faculty of professional education (Physics and Mathematics Department) of which he entered after demobilization due to the progression of tuberculosis, which he contracted while serving in the rear hospital in Simferopol city of the Volunteer Army as a disinfectant.
In 1935-1939, V. A. Mykhaylov, together with his teacher N. N. Evdokimov, carried out work on the joint determination of the inclinations of the stars by measuring the sums and differences of the zenith distances of E. Talcott's star pairs using the Sanders method on the Repsold meridian circle and the Bamberg passage instrument - Raymond.
In early 1935, they studied the long-period comet C/1935 A1 (Johnson) together with Savron M.S., a researcher at the Kharkiv State University Astronomical Observatory.
In 1936, he was awarded the academic title of Candidate of Astronomical Sciences (without defense, based on a set of scientific works).
Under the leadership of M. P. Barabashov, as an employee of A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University, he participated in an expedition whose purpose was to observe a total solar eclipse in the area of the Belorechensk station of the Krasnodar Territory on June 19, 1936.
He met the Great Patriotic War while working as an associate professor at the Department of Astronomy of A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University. Remaining in German-occupied Kharkiv city in the period 1941-1943, he made a lot of efforts to hide and preserve the observatory's equipment and library, performing the duties of the director of the Kharkiv Astronomical Observatory.
After the restoration and research of the meridian circle in the observatory of A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University in 1947, observations of direct ascensions of faint stars were started. The results of the observations made by K. N. Kuzmenko, V. A. Mykhaylov (in 1948-1953) and V. Kh. Pluzhnikov were included in the free catalogs PFKSZ-1 and PFKSZ-2.
He was part of the expedition led by V. Kh. Pluzhnikov to the Kobelyaki village of Poltava region, the purpose of which was to observe the solar eclipse of June 30, 1954.
According to the "Work Plan of the Department of Astronomy" of A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University, he taught courses in spherical, practical and theoretical astronomy, mathematical processing of observations and managed educational practice.
He died on February 3, 1955.
Main publications:
1. Mikhaylov V. О., Sawron М. S. (1935). Photographic observations of comet 1935a Johnson on a 16-cm and 12-cm Zeiss astrographs at Kharkiv Astronomical Observatory
2. Кузьменко К. Н., Михайлов В. А., Плужников В. Х. Наблюдение покрытий звезд Луной на ХАО в 1954 г. // Астрон. Цирк. − 1954. − № 151. − С. 28-29
3. Кузьменко К. Н., Михайлов В. А. Исследование винтов окулярного микрометра Харьковского меридианного круга // Уч. зап. Харьков. гос. ун-та. − 1954. − 55 (Тр. Астрон. обсерв., т. 3). − С. 43-55
4. Кузьменко К. Н., Михайлов В. А. Определение положений планет меридианным кругом ХАО по наблюдениям профессора H. H. Евдокимова // Уч. зап. Харьков. гос. ун-та. −1954. − 55 (Тр. Астрон. обсерв., т. 3). − С. 27-42
Sources:
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