Pavel Cherenkov
Pavel Cherenkov (born July 28, 1904, Novaya Chigla, Russia; died 1990), was a Soviet physicist. Cherenkov's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Pavel Cherenkov’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Pavel
Pavel Cherenkov’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Pavel in the U.S.?
#3225
US rank in 2025
~1,544
Americans share it since 1971
2008
its peak year
US records hold Pavel from 1971 onward, though not for 1904 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2008 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Pavel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Pavel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1904, 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 Pavel apart
Pavel Cherenkov took the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958, at 54.
Voronezh State University shaped the training.
The grave is at Novodevichy Cemetery.
On the family side, Pavel Cherenkov was married Maria Putintseva.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Pavel Cherenkov: Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Soviet inventors and Voronezh State University alumni.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929) and Harry Kane (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Voronezh State University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Buried at
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union and Russian Empire
- Languages
- Russian
- Wikipedia editions
- 78
What the chart says
Pavel, according to the stars
Core essence
Pavel is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Pavel is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Pavel needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Pavel needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Pavel wants to be loved
Pavel wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Pavel openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Pavel creates
How Pavel makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Pavel creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Pavel is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Pavel 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Pavel does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Pavel's birth date. Working below.
Where Pavel sits
Six lines
Pavel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Pavel Cherenkov
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Novaya Chigla 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 Novaya Chigla that night
Computed for 51.22°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Novaya Chigla at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.4° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Novaya Chigla at all: they sit past the −38.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Novaya Chigla, Russia
The death is recorded at Moscow, Russia in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Pavel Cherenkov: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Pavel's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Leo · Grand trine · 2 unaspected planets
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
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Pavel Cherenkov's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 28, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Pavel Cherenkov was born on July 28, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Pavel Cherenkov's birth date, July 28, 1904, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Pavel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Pavel Cherenkov's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Pavel Cherenkov combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Pavel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° 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
stableMercurysextilePluto1.2° to 2.8° orb
Pavel’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.5° to 4.2° orb
Pavel’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrinePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
Pavel’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.7° to 5.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.0° to 5.9° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.4° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.4° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Pavel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 26°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 8°19′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 23°26′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 28°26′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 10°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.9°
- Ceres trine Venus 2.1°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.5°
Pavel’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Pavel’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Grand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°
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Pavel’s cards
Computed from July 28, 1904. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Pavel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76970 (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 Pavel Cherenkov at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Pavel Cherenkov.
Quick answers about Pavel Cherenkov’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Pavel Cherenkov?
- Pavel Cherenkov was a Leo: born July 28, 1904, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Pavel Cherenkov's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 28, 1904 birth.
- What was Pavel Cherenkov's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Pavel Cherenkov's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Pavel Cherenkov's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Pavel Cherenkov's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
