Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich (; – June 1937) was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist.

Biography

Gerasimovich was born in Kremenchuk (now in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine). He graduated from Kharkiv University in 1914 having studied under Aristarkh Belopolsky. From 1917 until 1933 he worked at the Kharkiv University observatory. He became the director of the Pulkovo Observatory in 1933, but was arrested and executed during the Great Purge. He had a daughter, Tatiana Borisovna Gerasimovich.

Boris Gerasimovich

The crater Gerasimovich on the Moon is named in his honor. A minor planet 2126 Gerasimovich discovered in 1970 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is also named after him.

Boris Gerasimovich

References

External links

Letter from Military Prosecutor to T. B. Gerasimovich

1889 births

1937 deaths

People from Kremenchuk

Ukrainian astronomers

Soviet astronomers

Great Purge victims from Russia

Russian people executed by the Soviet Union

National University of Kharkiv alumni

Academic staff of Kharkiv Observatory

Boris Gerasimovich