Yurij Vasil’evich Karachkin (1940– ) is a teacher of physics at the school of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory at Nauchnyj. Many of his pupils entered a university education. ‘Yukar’ is the husband of Lyudmila Karachkina {see planet  (8019)}, discoverer of more than 100 minor planets and dear friend of the first discoverer. (M 36946) _ _.