Nikolai P. Barabashov
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Nikolay Pavlovich Barabashov (March 30, 1894 – April 29, 1971) was a Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 Russian
Russians
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 astronomer.

Barabashov graduated from Kharkov University
Kharkiv University
The University of Kharkiv or officially the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union...

, Ukraine
Ukraine
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, 1919; served as Director, Kharkov Observatory, 1930; Professor, Kharkov University, 1934; Rector, Kharkov 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
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 in 1961, called Atlas of the Other Side of the Moon. Barabashov  crater on Mars was named in his honor in 1973. A minor planet
Minor planet
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 2883 Barabashov
2883 Barabashov
2883 Barabashov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 13, 1978 by Chernykh, N. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 discovered in 1978 by Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh
Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh was a Soviet and Russian astronomer.Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast...

is named after him.

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