Ilya Frank
Ilya Frank (born October 23, 1908, Saint Petersburg, Russia; died 1990), was a Soviet physicist. Frank's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of the October Revolution and Order of Lenin.
Ilya Frank’s zodiac sign was Libra or Scorpio (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ilya
How common is the name Ilya in the U.S.?
#3153
US rank in 2025
~1,226
Americans share it since 1961
2018
its peak year
US records hold Ilya from 1961 onward, though not for 1908 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2018 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ilya’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on I (9) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ilya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, 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 Ilya apart
Ilya Frank took the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958, at 50.
Training came by way of Russian Academy of Sciences and Lomonosov Moscow State University.
The grave is at Vvedenskoye Cemetery.
On the family side, Ilya Frank was born to Mikhail Frank.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Ilya Frank: Scientists from Saint Petersburg, People from Saint Petersburg Governorate and Soviet Nobel laureates.
Pelé (1940) and Paul Kagame (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Russian Academy of Sciences and Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Buried at
- Vvedenskoye Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire and Soviet Union
- Languages
- Russian
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Ilya, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Ilya cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Ilya needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Ilya wants to be loved
Ilya wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Ilya and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Ilya creates
How Ilya makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ilya creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Ilya is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ilya is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Ilya fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Ilya's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Ilya Frank
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saint Petersburg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Saint Petersburg that night
Computed for 59.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Saint Petersburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 10.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
From 60.0°N, Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −30.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Saint Petersburg on any night.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 29° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
The death is recorded at Moscow, Russia in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ilya Frank: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ilya's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Libra or Scorpio Sun
Ilya Frank was born on a day when the Sun moved from Libra into Scorpio. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Ilya Frank was born on October 23, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Ilya Frank's birth date, October 23, 1908, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Ilya’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ilya Frank's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
Ilya’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Libra 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
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 6.2° orb
Ilya’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Ilya’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
Ilya’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.8° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.6° to 5.2° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.7° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Ilya’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 18°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 20°39′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 9°42′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°34′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mars 1.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.4°
- Hygiea trine Sun 3.0°
Ilya’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Ilya’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.
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Ilya’s cards
Computed from October 23, 1908. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ilya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192703 (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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ilya Frank at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ilya Frank.
Quick answers about Ilya Frank’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ilya Frank?
- Ilya Frank was born on a day when the Sun moved from Libra into Scorpio. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Ilya Frank's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 23, 1908 birth.
- What was Ilya Frank's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ilya Frank's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ilya Frank's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ilya Frank's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
