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Tamara Mikhaylivna Smirnova (Ukrainian: Тама́ра Миха́йлівна Смирно́ва; 1935–2001) was a Soviet/Ukrainen astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.
Born in 1958 in Siberia, Tamara Smirnova is first associate concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and concertmaster of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Smirnova started playing the violin at the age of 6 and graduated in 1981 from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where she studied with Eugenia Chugaeva.
Violinist from Siberia who began playing at six years of age and attended Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she took formal lessons with Eugenia Chugaeva. In 1981, she graduated and took part in the International Violin Competition, which was hosted by Munich, Germany.
It was discovered on 16 December 1971, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula and named in honor of Yekaterina Zelenko, the only woman to credited with conducting an aerial ramming.
- 16 December 1971
- Crimean Astrophysical Obs.
Jul 12, 2021 · The players, not normally given to outward expressions of emotion, stomped their feet when their leader, Tamara Smirnova, found the right key on the piano to invite them to tune.
Feb 12, 2022 · Since then, BSO violinists Tamara Smirnova, Alexander Velinzon, and Elita Kang have been stepping in with grace and distinction, but since the orchestra’s founding in 1881, the post has never...
The asteroid was discovered on 31 August 1973, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula. It was named after Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya, mother of Soviet heroes Zoya and Aleksandr.
