Vasilij G. Shevchenko (born 1960) is a Ukrainian astronomer, specialist in asteroid photometry, professor at the Department of Astronomy and Space Informatics of Kharkiv University.

[3] In 1997, he defended his PhD thesis "Asteroid photometry: phase dependencies of brightness, photometric model".

[1] In 2017, he defended his doctoral dissertation "Integral photometry of asteroids: observation and numerical modeling".

Shevchenko's main contributions are studies of the phase dependence of the brightness and the opposition effect of asteroids.

Based on the results of photometric observations, he determined the phase functions for different types of asteroids, studied the opposition effect up to extremely small phase angles (less than 1 degree), found some dark asteroids without an opposition effect, and determined the exact albedo for dozens of asteroids.