Nikolaj Semenovich Kardashev (b. 1932), director of the Astrospace Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, has made significant contributions to the study of atomic radiations in the inter-stellar medium, developed multidimensional cosmology and now directs the experiment RadioAstron.
Discovered on 22-10-1981 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.