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.
List of discovered minor planets
| 749 Malzovia | 5 April 1913 | |
| 812 Adele | 8 September 1915 | |
| 849 Ara | 9 February 1912 | |
| 850 Altona | 27 March 1916 | |
| 851 Zeissia | 2 April 1916 | |
| 852 Wladilena | 2 April 1916 | |
| 853 Nansenia | 2 April 1916 | |
| 854 Frostia | 3 April 1916 | |
| 855 Newcombia | 3 April 1916 | |
| 856 Backlunda | 3 April 1916 | |
| 857 Glasenappia | 6 April 1916 | |
| 885 Ulrike | 23 September 1917 | |
| 969 Leocadia | 5 November 1921 | |
| 978 Aidamina | 18 May 1922 | |
| 981 Martina | 23 September 1917 |