Asteroids named after people called Veniamin

(7555) Venvolkov

Veniamin Vasil'evich Volkov (b. 1921), world-renowned ophthalmologist, made significant contributions to the treatment of cancer, trauma and burns to the eye.Discovered 28 September 1981 by L. V. Zhuravleva, Nauchnyj

(17356) Vityazev

Veniamin Vladimirovich Vityazev (b. 1943), a professor at St. Petersburg University and director of the V. V. Sobolev Astronomical Institute, has contributed to the elaboration of fundamental stellar catalogue systems and to the detection by wavelet analysis of periodicities in the earth's rotation.Discovered 9 August 1978 by N. S. Chernykh, Nauchnyj