Sergey Belyavsky
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Sergey Ivanovich Belyavsky was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and a List of [minor planet discoverers|discoverer] of 36 numbered minor planets.
His last name is also alternatively spelled Beljavskij or Beljawskij. His first name is occasionally given as "Sergius". He was born in St. Petersburg and was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. His field of work included astrophotometry, astrometry, and the study of variable stars. He died in Leningrad.
He discovered the bright naked-eye comet C/1911 S3, also known according to the nomenclature of the time as "Comet 1911 IV" or "Comet 1911g". Belyavsky observed at Simeiz Observatory in Crimea. Between 1937 and 1944, Belyavsky was the seventh director of the Pulkovo Observatory, where he succeeded Boris Gerasimovich.