Asteroids named after people called Lyudmila

(6536) Vysochinska

Named in honor of Lyudmila Iosifovna Vysochinska, composer, pianist and music critic in Kiev and a public figure throughout Ukraine. She has written many songs based on the poetry of Ukrainian, Russian and Bulgarian poets. The founding director of the Ukraine's first Theater of Songs, she has research interests that include the connections between Ukrainian classical composers and writers.Discovered 14 July 1977 by N. S. Chernykh, Nauchnyj

(7385) Aktsynovia

Lyudmila Mikhailovna Aktsynova (1910-1997) and her husband Arkadij Vsevolodovich Aktsynov (1910-1997) were masters of portraiture and landscape painting. They depicted the beauties of nature in various parts of Russia, including Siberia, Baikal, Sayany, Altaj and Volga.Discovered 22 October 1981 by N. S. Chernykh, Nauchnyj

(7451) Verbitskaya

Professor of general linguistics Lyudmila Alekseevna Verbitskaya (b. 1936) is an authority on Russian and experimental phonetics. As rector of St. Petersburg University she has created and supported favorable conditions for the development of higher education and science. The name was suggested by K. V. Kholshevnikov.Discovered 8 August 1978 by N. S. Chernykh, Nauchnyj

(8019) Karachkina

Named in honor of Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (b. 1948), staff astronomer at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in St. Petersburg since 1978 and now at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. Her main fields of work are in astrometry and photometry of minor planets. Between 1978 and 1990 she discovered 99 minor planets. Since 1990 she has concentrated on photometry and colorimetry of solar system bodies. Name proposed by the first discoverer in gratitude for her kind support and cooperation.Discovered 14 October 1990 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg

(9717) Lyudvasilia

Lyudmila Vasil'evna Shaposhnikova (b. 1926), orientalist and writer, investigates the creative works of Nicholas Roerich and has published books and papers on the culture of India and philosophical problems of the Roerich legacy. She is the founder and director of the Roerich International Center and Museum in Moscow.Discovered 24 September 1976 by N. S. Chernykh, Nauchnyj

(26087) Zhuravleva

Lyudmila Vasil'evna Zhuravleva (b. 1946) was a staff member of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy from 1972 to 1998. She discovered 213 minor planets with the 0.4-m double astrograph of CrAO. Name proposed by the Institute of Applied Astronomy.Discovered 21 October 1982 by L. G. Karachkina, Nauchnyj