Crimean Astrophysical Observatory

• 1945–1952: Grigory Shajn - head of construction, the first director of the Observatory at Nauchny.
• 1952–1987: Andrei Severny.
• 1987–2005: Nikolai Steshenko.[http://www.astronet.ru/db/msg/1220086 Стешенко Николай Владимирович], Астронет[http://www.whoiswho.crimea.ua/view_person.php?record=7138 СТЕШЕНКО Николай Владимирович] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312235134/http://whoiswho.crimea.ua/view_person.php?record=7138 |date=2016-03-12 }}, Кто есть кто в Крыму
• 2005 – present: Alla Rostopchina-Shakhovskaya (Romanova).[http://www.ksu.ru/anketa200/a200_form.phtml?nom=587 Ростопчина-шаховская (Романова) Алла Николаевна] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108151001/http://old.kpfu.ru/anketa200/a200_form.phtml?nom=587 |date=2019-01-08 }}, Анкета выпускника Казанского ГУ{{Cite web |url=http://crao.ru/ru/o-nas/administratsiya |title=Администрация КРАО |access-date=2019-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003025304/http://crao.ru/ru/o-nas/administratsiya |archive-date=2019-10-03 |url-status=dead }}

{{See also|Category:Discoveries by the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory}}

As of 2016, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) gives a total of 1286 numbered minor planets that were discovered at the Crimea–Nauchnij observatory site during 1966–2007. Most of these discovery are credited to the Russian/Soviet astronomers Tamara Smirnova, Lyudmila Chernykh, Nikolai Chernykh, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Bella A. Burnasheva, Nikolaj Efimovič Kuročkin, Lyudmila Karachkina, Natalʹja Vitalʹevna Metlova and Galina Ričardovna Kastelʹ. As a peculiarity, British astronomer and long-time MPC director Brian G. Marsden is also credited with the co-discovery of 37556 Svyaztie at Nauchnij in 1982, as a symbolic gesture of the astronomical collaborations and friendships between the East and the West during the Cold War.

The MPC also credits the discovery of the following minor planets directly to the observatory (rather than to one of the above listed astronomers):

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• List of asteroid-discovering observatories
• {{Section link|List of minor planet discoverers|Discovering dedicated institutions}}
• List of observatory codes
• Simeiz Observatory

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{{cite web

|title=Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)

|work=Minor Planet Center

|url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html

|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120628153854/http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=28 June 2012

|date=14 November 2016

|access-date=30 November 2016

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{{cite book

|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (37556) Svyaztie

|last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.

|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg

|pages = 892–893

|date = 2007

|isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3

|doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_10005 |chapter = (37556) Svyaztie }}

{{cite web

|title = Minor Planet Discovery Sites

|quote = The following table lists the total number of discoveries made at each of the most prolific discovery sites, arranged in decreasing order of number of discoveries.

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscSites.html

|date = 16 November 2016

|access-date = 30 November 2016}}

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• [https://www.crao.ru/en/ CrAO's website]

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