Gerasimovich was born in
Kremenchuk (now in
Poltava Oblast,
Ukraine). As a student he was a member of the
SR Combat Organization. He graduated from
Kharkiv University in 1914 having studied under
Aristarkh Belopolsky. From 1917 until 1933 he worked at the
Kharkiv University observatory. He became the director of the
Pulkovo Observatory in 1933, but was arrested and executed during the
Great Purge. He had a daughter, Tatiana Borisovna Gerasimovich. The crater
Gerasimovich on the
Moon is named in his honor. A
minor planet 2126 Gerasimovich discovered in 1970 by
Soviet astronomer
Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is also named after him. ==References==