About Yuri Ivashchenko
Born 1961. Yuri Ivashchenko is a Ukrainian astronomer.
Yuri Ivashchenko (; born April 12, 1961) is a Ukrainian astronomer.
Biography Yuri Ivashchenko was born in Andrushivka, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine on April 12, 1961, the day Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space. Therefore, his parents decided to name him after Yuri Gagarin. His father was a journalist of a regional newspaper, and his mother was a teacher of science and astronomy. Since 2003, more than 110 asteroids were discovered by its team.
In June 2014, because of the crisis in the automotive industry in Ukraine, he left the dealer center and once again became a research scientist at the Main Observatory of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences. Meanwhile, he continues supervising of the Andrushivka Observatory.
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Ukrainian astronomer
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Yuri Ivashchenko was born on 12 April 1961 in Andrushivka.
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