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Lyudmila Zhuravleva

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Lyudmila Vasilyevna Zhuravleva (Russian: Людмила Васильевна Журавлёва, Ukrainian: Людмила Василівна Журавльова, romanized: Liudmyla Vasylivna Zhuravlova; born 22 May 1946) is a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian astronomer, who worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, where she discovered 213 minor planets. She also serves as president of the Crimean branch of the "Prince Clarissimus Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov Foundation" (which was founded in May 1995 in Berezovo, and is not the same as the "Menshikov Foundation" children's charity founded by Anthea Eno, the wife of Brian Eno). She has discovered a number of asteroids, including the Trojan asteroid 4086 Podalirius and asteroid 2374 Vladvysotskij. Zhuravleva is ranked 43 in the Minor Planet Center's list of those who have discovered minor planets. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lyudmila Zhuravleva is the 342nd most popular astronomer (down from 339th in 2019), the 1,204th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,386th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Lyudmila Zhuravleva ranks 342 out of 644. Before her are James Challis, Julius Schiller, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Heinrich Kreutz, James L. Elliot, and Klim Churyumov. After her are Fang Lizhi, Rudolph Minkowski, Hugo von Seeliger, Walter Lewin, Carl A. Wirtanen, and Gérard de Vaucouleurs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Lyudmila Zhuravleva ranks 361. Before her are Joel Camargo, Kirsti Sparboe, Ian McDonald, Emilio de Villota, Franz Roth, and Raël. After her are Daniel Bensaïd, Lana Wood, Carol Dweck, Salif Keïta, Robert Mercer, and Robert Gadocha.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lyudmila Zhuravleva ranks 1,204 out of 3,761. Before her are Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Nadezhda Durova (1783), Dmitry Milyutin (1816), Vasily Mishin (1917), Nikolai Noskov (1956), and Margarita Terekhova (1942). After her are Mikhail Diterikhs (1874), Eino Rahja (1885), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Guzal Sitdikova (1952), Agafya Grushetskaya (1663), and Patriarch Sergius of Moscow (1867).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Lyudmila Zhuravleva ranks 5. Before her are Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Sergey Belyavsky (1883), and Hermann von Struve (1854). After her are Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Vera Gaze (1899), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), and Lyudmila Karachkina (1948).

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