Ekaterina Tikhomirova
Team Contact Person, NAEC team - The Russian Federation
State Autonomous Cultural Institution of Yaroslavl Region Cultural and educational center named after Valentina V.Tereshkova
en_tihomirova​atmail.ru


I graduated from the State Pedagogical University as a teacher of physics and English, later I was a postgraduate.

Nowadays I am a deputy director of Cultural and educational center named after Valentina V.Tereshkova and а Senior Lecturer of Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University n. a. K.D.Ushinskiy (Yaroslavl).

My experience and skills in the area of astronomy education, informal education and astronomy education research are:
- organization and holding the All-Russian and the International Astronomy events in Russia,
- the lectures at Planetarium, astronomy classes, observatory and at the Physics and mathematics faculty of Pedagogical University;
- distribution of the astronomy information among professional astronomers, amateurs, school Teachers and University Lecturers and Professors, employees of the planetarium, children etc.
- developing and publishing methodology materials and articles on Astronomy primary education, secondary education and informal education, astronomy education research.

Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027

Feoktistova Irina
Team Member, NAEC team - The Russian Federation
Samara University


Education:• Finished Kharkiv State University with a degree in astronomy and physics in 1989.• Finished Samara Aerospace University with a degree in organization management in 2004.Career:•

Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027

Alexander Vladimirovich Yartsev
Team Member, NAEC team - The Russian Federation
Moscow State Pedagogical University


I am was born 26 April 1994 in Moscow. As a teenager, inspired by the engineers and cosmonauts of Soviet Union, I became interested in studying the history of cosmonautics. In 2018, I was received a master's degree in pedagogy from Moscow State Pedagogical University.

Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027

Nikolay Zheleznov
Team Member, NAEC team - The Russian Federation
The Institute of Applied Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences


I was born in the town of Krasnoufimsk of Sverdlovsk region in Russia in 1973. In 1981 the family has moved to Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia.
I have graduated from physical and mathematical school in 1990 and the same year I have entered the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University on Mathematics and Mechanics faculty on Department of astronomy. I have graduated from the university in 1995.
From 1995 to 1998 I am a graduate student at first of Institute of Theoretical Astronomy RAS, then Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS. In 2002 I got my PhD with a thesis “Prograde-rotational motion in the system of a binary asteroid and modeling of his lightcurves”.
From 1995 to 2016 I worked in the Laboratory of Small Bodies of Solar System. I researched motion of binary asteroids, a problem of asteroid hazard. I was a member of editorial group of Yearbook “Ephemerides of minor planets”.
In 2004-2005 and since 2016 I am scientific worker in Laboratory of astronomical yearbooks. At present I master process of calculation of tables and the edition of the Astronomical Yearbook.
Since 2024 I am an Editor-in-Chief of the Astronomical Yearbook.
Complete list of scientific publications contains more than 120 articles (mostly in Russian), including theses of reports on conferences.
I conduct active work on promoting of astronomy in media enviroment and the press (newspaper, TV-channel, phone, internet etc.). I give popular scientific lectures on astronomy to schoolchildren and students. Since 2022 I am Saint-Petersburg Planetarium employee.
Many years I am the press secretary of the Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS.
I am married. I have two daughters.

Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027