Nikolai Moiseev
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Nikolai Dmitriyevich Moiseev (Николай Дмитриевич Моисеев in Russian) (December 3(16), 1902, Perm, - December 6, 1955, Moscow) was a Soviet astronomer and expert in celestial mechanics. In 1938 he became the chairman of the department of celestial mechanics at Moscow State University and worked on this position until his death. His main works were devoted to mathematical methods of celestial calculations and theory of comet formation.
He also taught higher mathematics in Zhukovsky Military Academy and was a colonel-engineer of Air forces. He was the director of State Astronomic Institute named by Sternberg (1939-1943) and organized the national system of radio-signals for the exact time.
His awards include Order of Lenin, Order of the Great Patriotic War and two Red Stars. A crater on the Moon, "Moiseev" is named after Nikolai Moiseev. A minor planet 3080 Moisseiev discovered by Soviet astronomer Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn in 1935 is named after him. [1]
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- (Russian) Biography of Nikolai Moiseev
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