Avenir Alexandrovich Jakowkin
Avenir Alexandrowitsch Jakowkin ( Russian Авенир Александрович Яковкин ; born May 21, 1887 in Blagoveschensk , Ufa Governorate , Russian Empire ; † November 18, 1974 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) was a Russian astronomer .
From 1910 to 1931 he worked at the Engelhardt Observatory of the University of Kazan , from 1928 as its director. During this time he carried out an extensive measuring program, the result of which was the precise determination of the orbit parameters of the moon and in particular their effect on the libration .
From 1937 to 1945 he was head of the Astronomical Institute at Gorky University in Sverdlovsk . From 1945 to 1951 he worked at the University of Kiev , where he was dean of the physics department from 1949 . From 1951 to 1968 he worked at the main observatory of the National Academy of Sciences in Kiev, from 1952 to 1959 as its director, then as a scientific advisor.
He had been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR since 1951 .
The crater of the moon Yakovkin is named after him.
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- ↑ Website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on December 2, 2016
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| SURNAME | Jakowkin, Avenir Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Яковкин, Авенир Александрович (Russian); Yakovkin, Avenir Aleksandrovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blagoveshchensk , Bashkortostan , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1974 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union |