Boris Gerasimovich
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Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich (Russian: Борис Петрович Герасимович; March 31, 1889 [O.S. March 19] — June, 1937) was a Russian astronomer and astrophysicist.
Gerasimovich was born in Kremenchug (now Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine).
From 1917 until 1933 he worked at the Kharkov 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.
Gerasimovich crater on the Moon was named after him, as was the asteroid 2126 Gerasimovich.
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