Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov (born December 14, 1922, Usman, Russia; died 2001), was a Soviet physicist. Basov served as deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and director. Basov's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class.
Nikolay Basov’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dog, with 
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Nikolay Basov’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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US rank in 2025
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Americans share it since 1880
2010
its peak year
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Nikolay’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Nikolay, according to the stars
Core essence
Nikolay is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Nikolay is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Nikolay wants to be loved
Nikolay wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Nikolay even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Nikolay creates
How Nikolay makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Nikolay creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Nikolay is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Nikolay is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Nikolay slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Nikolay's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Nikolay Basov at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Nikolay Basov's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 14, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Nikolay Basov was born on December 14, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Nikolay Basov's birth date, December 14, 1922, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Nikolay’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nikolay Basov's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Nikolay Basov combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Nikolay’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Nikolay Basov, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupitertrineUranus0.1° to 0.3° orb
Nikolay’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Nikolay’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.3° to 0.5° orb
Nikolay’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableUranustrinePluto0.6° orb
Nikolay’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileSaturn2.9° to 3.8° orb
Nikolay’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb
Nikolay’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 4.5° orb
Nikolay’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareNeptune6.5° orb
Nikolay’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 2.1° to 16.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Nikolay’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°01′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Nikolay may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 22°57′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Nikolay is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°55′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Nikolay is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 13°33′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Nikolay is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 8°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Nikolay carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros sextile Mars 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.3°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Nikolay’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Nikolay is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Nikolay’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nikolay Basov, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Nikolay’s cards
Every card is computed from December 14, 1922, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Nikolay Basov, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Nikolay’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83557, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nikolay Basov at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Nikolay Basov’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nikolay Basov?
- Nikolay Basov was a Sagittarius: born December 14, 1922, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- What was Nikolay Basov's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 14, 1922 birth.
- What time was Nikolay Basov born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Nikolay Basov's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the December 14, 1922 birth date.
- What was Nikolay Basov's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 14, 1922 birth date.
- Where was Nikolay Basov's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nikolay Basov's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
