Asteroids named after people called Aleksey

(19919) Pogorelov

Aleksey Vasil'evich Pogorelov (1919-2002), a Ukrainian Soviet mathematician, was responsible for the solution of a number of key problems in geometry “as a whole”, in the fundamentals of geometry, in the theory of the Monge-Ampère equation and in the geometrical theory of thin elastic shells.Discovered 8 October 1977 by L. I. Chernykh, Nauchnyj

(21643) Kornev

Aleksey Borisovich Kornev (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his chemistry project. He attends the Bryansky Lyceum #1, Bryansk, Russia.Discovered 14 July 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro

(623826) Alekseyvarkin

Aleksey Makarovich Varkin (1923–1986) was a great-grandfather of the discoverer. He was a Mordvin, born in Sabanovo, near Penza (Russia). During World War II, he was wounded while rescuing horses and received an award for this act. He raised three children; his pregnant wife died in a bus accident.Discovered 24 November 2022 by F. D. Romanov, La Palma-Liverpool