Alexander Zemlianichenko
Alexander Zemlianichenko (born May 7, 1950, Saratov, Russia), aged 76, is a Russian photojournalist. Zemlianichenko's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and Honored Journalist of the Russian Federation.
Alexander Zemlianichenko’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Alexander
Alexander Zemlianichenko’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Alexander in the U.S.?
#30
US rank in 2025
~740,668
Americans share it since 1880
1993
its peak year
Alexander ranked 189th among boys and 4,325th among girls in 1950, the year of this birth, with 1,164 American boys and 7 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alexander’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
11
Soul Urge · insight
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alexander’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1950, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Alexander apart
Alexander Zemlianichenko took the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 1992, at 42.
Saratov State Technical University shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put Alexander Zemlianichenko under Russian male journalists, Soviet photographers and War photographers.
Eva Perón (1919) and MrBeast (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Saratov State Technical University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (1997), Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography (1992) and Honored Journalist of the Russian Federation (2018)
- Citizenship
- Russia and Soviet Union
- Languages
- Russian
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
What the chart says
Alexander, according to the stars
Core essence
Alexander is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Alexander is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Alexander wants to be loved
Alexander wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Alexander creates
How Alexander makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Alexander creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Alexander is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Alexander is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Alexander channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Alexander's birth date. Working below.
Where Alexander sits
Six lines
Alexander’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Alexander Zemlianichenko
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saratov on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Saratov that night
Computed for 51.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Merak stood nearest the zenith over Saratov at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Saratov on any night.
The Moon, 63% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 4° below the horizon.
How unusual Alexander's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Alexander Zemlianichenko at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Alexander Zemlianichenko's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 7, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Alexander Zemlianichenko was born on May 7, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Alexander Zemlianichenko's birth date, May 7, 1950, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Alexander’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alexander Zemlianichenko's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Alexander Zemlianichenko combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Alexander’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Alexander’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
Alexander’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Alexander’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurytrineMars4.7° to 5.0° orb
stableSuntrineMars5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter6.4° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 3.8° to 16.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Alexander’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 20°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 18°09′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 15°27′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 21°50′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Neptune 0.3°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea square Mars 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.3°
- Chiron square Mars 1.3°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.4°
- Eros square Saturn 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.9°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 3.0°
Alexander’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Alexander’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°
More people like Alexander
Other photographers
- Nick Ut1951
- Art Spiegelman1948
- Tim Gunn1953
- Don Bartletti1947
- Howard Stern1954
- Jahangir Razmi1947
Born in Russia
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Born in Tiger years
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- Néstor KirchnerPresident of Argentina from 2003 to 2007
Also born on May 7
- Eva Perón1919
- MrBeast1998
- J Balvin1985
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- Minji2004
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- Rudy GiulianiAmerican attorney and politician (born 1944)
- John HancockAmerican Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution
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Other Tidal Lightkeepers
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Alexander’s cards
Computed from May 7, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alexander’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4191147 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Evstafiev, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alexander Zemlianichenko at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alexander Zemlianichenko.
Quick answers about Alexander Zemlianichenko’s chart
- How old is Alexander Zemlianichenko?
- Alexander Zemlianichenko is 76 years old, born May 7, 1950 in Saratov, Russia.
- What zodiac sign is Alexander Zemlianichenko?
- Alexander Zemlianichenko is a Taurus: born May 7, 1950, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Alexander Zemlianichenko's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 7, 1950 birth.
- What is Alexander Zemlianichenko's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alexander Zemlianichenko's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Alexander Zemlianichenko's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alexander Zemlianichenko's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
