Sikoruk, Leonid Leonidovich

Born July 23, 1937 in the city of Osinniki, Kemerovo region.

• Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (1998) .
• Honored Artist (1996) .
• Man of the Year (2012) for his achievements in the field of art and cinema.
• In January 2009, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 8561 the name Sikoruk.
• Honorary resident of Novosibirsk ^[1] .

L. L. Sikoruk initiated the start of industrial production of TAL telescopes at the Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant .
Among lovers of telescope engineering L. L. Sikoruk is a cult personality. In 1973 he organized the D. D. Maksutov Telescope Engineering Club. Over the 16 years of the club’s existence, students have produced more than 100 telescopes up to 315 mm in size. .
In the years 1976-1978 his film "Telescopes" was released, dedicated to this topic.
The second edition of his book, Telescopes for Astronomy Lovers, was the last amateur astronomy book published in the USSR. It has become the most popular and quoted book among telescope lovers of the republics of the former USSR.

• Sikoruk L.L. Physics for kids / Color illustrations A. Golovchenko. - M .: Pedagogy, 1979. - 168 p.
• Sikoruk L.L. Physics for Kids / Color illustrations by E. Agafonova. - Petrozavodsk: Horizon, 1996 .-- 128 p.
• Sikoruk L.L. Telescopes for astronomy lovers. - 1st. - M .: Nauka, 1982.- 240 p. - (Library lover of astronomy).
• Sikoruk L.L. Telescopes for astronomy lovers. - 2nd. - M .: Nauka, 1990 .-- 368 p. - (Library lover of astronomy). - 83,000 copies. - ISBN 5-02-014075-9 .
• Sikoruk L.L., Shpolsky M.R. Amateur astrophotography. - M .: Nauka, 1986 .-- 208 p. - (Library lover of astronomy).

• Telescopes. Movie 1. 1976
• Telescopes. Movie 2. 1977
• Telescopes. Movie 3. 1978
• Starry sky of Leonid Sikoruk. 2007 year

• Encyclopedia "Novosibirsk", 2003.

• The history of amateur astronomy in Russia and the USSR. Part III Amateur telescope engineering (until 1991)
• Siberian Astronomical Forum