Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (Russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х) (6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004) was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyy, Crimea.