Gumilev, Nikolai Stepanovich

Gumilev, Nikolai Stepanovich, 1886-1921, Russian poet. With his wife, the poet Anna Akhmatova, and Gorodetsky Gumilev, he founded the Acmeist school of poetry in 1912. He traveled widely in Europe and, especially, in Africa, and his poetic imagery is enhanced by the frequent use of foreign and exotic elements. The Pillar of Fire (1921) contains much of his best work. Gumilev was executed by the Bolsheviks for alleged conspiratorial activities.

Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh (Николай Степанович Черных) (October 6 1931–May 26, 2004) was a Soviet and Russian astronomer.

Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast. He specialized in astrometry and the dynamics of small bodies in the solar system and worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in the Ukraine from 1963.

Chernykh discovered two periodic comets 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh and 101P/Chernykh. He also discovered a very large number of asteroids, including notably 2867 Šteins and the Trojan asteroid 2207 Antenor. Chernykh worked with his wife and colleague Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (Людмила Ивановна Черных). The asteroid 2325 Chernykh discovered in 1979 by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos was named in their honour.

See also

• List of asteroids discovered by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh

References

External links

• 40 Years of Discovering Asteroids - An appreciation of the Work of N. S. Chernykh (in Russian)