Motrya Bratiychuk
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Matrona (Motrya) Vasylivna Bratiychuk (published as M. V. Bratijchuk, Ukrainian: Братійчук Мотря Василівна, 8 September 1927 – 4 April 2001) was a Ukrainian astronomer, one of the first devoted to the observation of artificial satellites.
Bratiychuk was born on 8 September 1927 in Verba, a village in the Dubno Raion of Ukraine, at the time part of the Soviet Union. After earning a degree in 1952 from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, she became a secondary school teacher for a year before continuing her graduate education.[1][2]
In 1956 or 1957, she became an assistant in the faculty of physics and mathematics of Uzhhorod National University, and in 1959 she earned a candidate degree, later progressing through the academic ranks to full professor in 1991. In 1957 she founded and headed the university's Station for Optical Observations of Earth's Artificial Satellites in 1957, and in 1969 this became the Laboratory for Space Research of the university.[1][2]
She died on April 4, 2001, in Uzhhorod.
