Yevgeny Yakovlevich Perepyolkin (; 4 March 1906 – 13 January 1938) was a Soviet astronomer. He headed the astrophysics department of the Pulkovo Observatory until he was arrested on 11 May 1937 for counter-revolutionary agitation. He was sent to a penal labour camp in Krasnoyarsk Krai, and was executed on 13 January 1938. and another on the Moon were named in his honor.
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- History of Pulkovo Observatory