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Mar 18, 1894 Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine Died on 29 Apr 1971 (aged 77)
Russian astronomer
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About Nikolai P. Barabashov
- Nikolay Pavlovich Barabashov (March 30, 1894 in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire – April 29, 1971) was a Soviet astronomer. Barabashov graduated from Kharkiv University, Ukraine, 1919; served as Director, Kharkiv Observatory, 1930; Professor, Kharkiv University, 1934; Rector, Kharkiv University, 1943-1946.
- He became a member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences in 1948. He was a co-author of the ground breaking publication of the first pictures of the far side of the Moon in 1961, called Atlas of the Other Side of the Moon.
- Barabashov crater on Mars was named in his honor in 1973.
- 2883 Barabashov, a minor planet discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
