Georgij A. Krasinsky

Georgij Albertovich Krasinsky (Георгий Альбертович Красинский, February 19, 1939; Leningrad, USSR – March 17, 2011, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian astronomer active at the Institute of Applied Astronomy, Russian Academy of Science, St Petersburg.

Krasinsky graduated in 1961 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad State University.

He then became a graduate student and, subsequently, an employee of the Институт теоретической астрономии АН СССР (Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Academy of Sciences of the USSR).

There in 1989 he completed his dissertation for the Russian Doctor of Sciences degree[1] (similar to habilitation).

He made important contributions to the theory and implementation of Russia's radio interferometric complex "Kvazar-KVO" created at the Институт прикладной астрономии (Institute of Applied Astronomy) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).