Asteroid Asteroid Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones... s discovered: 36
749 Malzovia 749 Malzovia -External links:*...	April 5, 1913
812 Adele 812 Adele 812 Adele is an S-type Eunomian asteroid. Its rotation period is 5.859 hours.-External links:*...	September 8, 1915
849 Ara 849 Ara -External links:*...	February 9, 1912
850 Altona 850 Altona -External links:*...	March 27, 1916
851 Zeissia 851 Zeissia 851 Zeissia is an S-type asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt. Its diameter is about 12 km and it has an albedo of 0.2646 . Its rotation period is 9.34 hours.-External links:*...	April 2, 1916
852 Wladilena 852 Wladilena 852 Wladilena is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.-External links:*...	April 2, 1916
853 Nansenia 853 Nansenia 853 Nansenia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Norwegian polar explorer Fritjof Nansen.-External links:*...	April 2, 1916
854 Frostia 854 Frostia 854 Frostia is an asteroid orbiting the Sun. It is named after Edwin Brant Frost, an American astronomer.A satellite, designated S/2004 1, was identified based on lightcurve observations in July 2004 by Raoul Behrend, Laurent Bernasconi, Alain Klotz, and Russell I. Durkee...	April 3, 1916
855 Newcombia 855 Newcombia -External links:*...	April 3, 1916
856 Backlunda 856 Backlunda -External links:*...	April 3, 1916
857 Glasenappia 857 Glasenappia -External links:*...	April 6, 1916
885 Ulrike 885 Ulrike -External links:*...	September 23, 1917
969 Leocadia 969 Leocadia 969 Leocadia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.-External links:*...	November 5, 1921
978 Aidamina 978 Aidamina 978 Aidamina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.-External links:*...	May 18, 1922
981 Martina 981 Martina 981 Martina is a Themistian asteroid.-External links:*...	September 23, 1917
995 Sternberga 995 Sternberga 995 Sternberga is a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1923 by Sergei Belyavsky at Simeiz Observatory.-External links:*...	June 8, 1923
1001 Gaussia 1001 Gaussia -External links:*...	August 8, 1923
1004 Belopolskya 1004 Belopolskya 1004 Belopolskya is an asteroid. It was discovered by Sergei Belyavsky on September 5, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 OS. It is named after the astronomer Aristarkh Belopolsky....	September 5, 1923
1005 Arago 1005 Arago 1005 Arago is an asteroid. It was discovered by Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky on September 5, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 OT. It is named after mathematician François Arago.-External links:...	September 5, 1923
1006 Lagrangea 1006 Lagrangea 1006 Langrangea is an asteroid discovered by Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky on September 12, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 OU. It is named after mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange.-External links:...	September 12, 1923
1031 Arctica 1031 Arctica 1031 Arctica is an asteroid. It was discovered by Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky on June 6, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 RR. It was named after the Arctic....	June 6, 1924
1062 Ljuba 1062 Ljuba 1062 Ljuba is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1925 TB. It has a diameter of 142 km.-External links:*...	October 11, 1925
1065 Amundsenia 1065 Amundsenia 1065 Amundsenia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1926 PD. It is now named after Roald Amundsen. It has a diameter of 30 kilometres.-External links:*...	August 4, 1926
1074 Beljawskya 1074 Beljawskya 1074 Beljawskya is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1925 BE.-External links:*...	January 26, 1925
1084 Tamariwa 1084 Tamariwa 1084 Tamariwa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1926 CC. The numerical designation indicates this was the 1084th asteroid discovered.-External links:*...	February 12, 1926

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| 1094 Siberia

1094 Siberia

1094 Siberia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1926 CB. It is now named after Siberia. The numerical designation indicates this was the 1094th asteroid discovered.-1094 Siberia in fiction:...

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| 1118 Hanskya

1118 Hanskya

1118 Hanskya is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky and N. Ivanov on August 29, 1927 at Simeis. Its provisional designation was 1927 QD. It was named in honor of the 25th anniversary of the death of the first astronomer of the Simeis observatory,...

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| 1153 Wallenbergia

1153 Wallenbergia

1153 Wallenbergia is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It makes a revolution around the Sun once every 3 years. It completes one rotation once every 4 hours. It was discovered by Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky at Simeis on September 5, 1924. It was named for the German mathematician Georg James...

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| 1224 Fantasia

1224 Fantasia

1224 Fantasia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 29, 1927 by Belyavskij, S. and Ivanov, N. at Simeis.- External links :*...

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| 1621 Druzhba

1621 Druzhba

1621 Druzhba is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 1, 1926 by S. Belyavskij at Simeis.- External links :*...

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| 1874 Kacivelia

1874 Kacivelia

1874 Kacivelia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1924 by S. Belyavskij at Simeis.- External links :*...

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| 1984 Fedynskij

1984 Fedynskij

1984 Fedynskij is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 10, 1926 by S. I. Belyavskij at Simeis.- External links :*...

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| 2156 Kate

2156 Kate

2156 Kate is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 23, 1917 by S. Belyavskij at Simeis.- External links :*...

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| 3134 Kostinsky

3134 Kostinsky

3134 Kostinsky is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on November 5, 1921 by S. Belyavskij at Simeis.- External links :*...

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| 4509 Gorbatskij

4509 Gorbatskij

4509 Gorbatskij is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 23, 1917 by Sergey Belyavsky at Simeis.- External links :*...

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: November 25) – October 13, 1953) was a Soviet

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 astronomer

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.

His last name is also alternatively spelled Beljavskij (name under which the Minor Planet Center

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 credits him) or Beljawskij. His first name is occasionally given as "Sergius".

He was born in St. Petersburg

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 and was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union

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. His field of work included astrophotometry, astrometry

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, and the study of variable star

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s. He died in Leningrad

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Discovered the bright naked-eye comet

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 C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky), also known according to the nomenclature of the time as Comet 1911 IV or Comet 1911g.

He discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroid

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He observed at Simeiz Observatory

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 (Симеиз) in Crimea

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. Between 1937 and 1944 Belyavsky was the seventh director of the Pulkovo Observatory

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, where he succeeded Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich

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