# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pelageya-shajn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:49:17.433Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pelageya-shajn"
name: "Pelageya Shajn"
slug: "pelageya-shajn"
description: "Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova, was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928. Pelageya also discovered numerous variable stars and co-discovered the periodic, Jupiter-family comet 61P/Shajn–Schaldach. She was married to prominent Soviet astronomer Grigory Shajn."
tagline: "Russian astronomer"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1894-04-19"
deathDate: "1956-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump