It is named after Vera Yakovlevna Brodskaya, a longtime librarian and curator of the Pulkovo Observatory in Russia.
It is named after Anna Ivanovna Plyugina, a Russian astronomer at the Pulkovo Observatory and wife of Plyugin.
Ph.D. degree was obtained in Pulkovo Observatory in 1963 by defending the thesis on Evolution of comet orbits.
Pulkovo Observatory, The Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, 19 km south of Saint Petersburg
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Gurshtein earned his Candidate of Science from Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow in 1966 and a Doctor of Science degree in Physics & Mathematics from Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in St. Petersburg (1980).
Between 1937 and 1944 Belyavsky was the seventh director of the Pulkovo Observatory, where he succeeded Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich
He was a good friend of Oskar Backlund, and when the latter died in 1916, he succeeded him as director of Pulkovo Observatory.