On 2022 Day of Russian Science, discoverer of variable stars Filipp Romanov is homeless for 5 years!
Channel: Филипп Романов астрономия Filipp Romanov astronomy
Date: 08/02/2022

My name is Filipp Romanov, I am 24 years old. I am amateur astronomer from Russia, the discoverer of 80 variable stars and author of three scientific papers about astronomy published in journals. I am homeless for the 6th year already and I need the help! More information:

This video was taken on February 8, 2022, on the Day of Russian Science, in my small homeland (in Yuzhno-Morskoy, Primorsky Krai of Russia, on the coast of the Sea of Japan).

I was born on April 27, 1997. I started to study astronomy by self-education in 2009 (since August 17, 2009; I was 12 years old).

My mother https://twitter.com/romlorvic (she has a blood disorder - anemia) brought me up herself (alone, I don't have a father). I was disabled for 10 years in orthopedics. I spent my childhood in hospitals. I have a lot of diseases (of joints, of bronchi, of veins, of blood - thrombocytopenia - and heart defect).

I had a dream to enter the Lomonosov Moscow State University to study astronomy and become an astronomer, so I came to Moscow (because in the Far East of Russia, universities do not have education in the specialty of astronomy) from Primorsky Krai of the Russian Far East. With the help of my relatives, a small room (its area of 13.2 square meters) in a two-room communal apartment in Moscow was bought for me.

I wanted to prepare there for the entrance exams to the University and I wanted live there while studying at the University. But on January 23, 2017, I lost the opportunity to live in my room, because in this communal apartment our rights were illegally violated.

I and my mother: were deprived of the opportunity to live safely and unhindered in this communal apartment, we lost the opportunity to take away our belongings and my telescopes from my room, and I lost the opportunity to sell my room. As a result, since January 23, 2017, I, my mother and our old cat Fanya https://instagram.com/astrocatfanya (she is now 16 years old) - we are homeless.

My room is for sale since March 2017, but there are obstacles in its sale.

My life and my mother's life were in danger in this communal apartment, so we fleeing and we went wandering. For two years, my mother and I have been writing statements to the police, with video evidence of violations of our rights in this communal apartment, but no one helped us; I wrote to mayor of Moscow - Sergey Sobyanin and to president of Russia - Vladimir Putin, but probably, the officials did not give them my letters (my letters to the president of Russia and to the Mayor of Moscow were redirected by officials to other institutions of Moscow); and we are forced to wander for five years, as homeless, about it I created my petition on December 9, 2017 on change.org:  https://chng.it/9Fx472cj9f 

In 2021:

in spring I was an attendee of international virtual Communicating Astronomy with the Public Conference (CAP 2021) with my presentation "Free popularization of astronomy in Russia by an amateur astronomer" https://youtube.com/watch?v=oFRVp0-Sm7A ;

in summer I was presenter online at The International Occultation Timing Association's 39th Annual Meeting with my presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-a4ePCg5Mc "Observations of occultations (of stars and of planets) by an amateur astronomer in Russia";

in autumn I was presenter online at 2021 International Meteor Conference with my presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7iRmkcLaDk "Observations (from 2016 to 2020) of the Geminids from different regions of Russia by an amateur astronomer";

in winter - on Dec 15, 2021, in peer-reviewed the Journal of the AAVSO, my scientific paper "Discovery of Romanov V20, an Algol-Type Eclipsing Binary in the Constellation Centaurus, by Means of Data Mining" was published https://app.aavso.org/jaavso/article/3695/ ;
Article https://twitter.com/romanov_filipp/status/1479883191787864069 "The Galileo of Primorsky Krai" about my independent achievements in astronomy was published https://astronomy.ie/join-buy-magazine/ (on pp.42-43) in Astronomy Ireland magazine (January 2022).

I also continue to be a member (Complimentary membership) of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO).

Now we are in Primorsky Krai of Russia https://vk.com/album213781868_260731878 . We do not have money for a lawyer/attorney to go to court, but I can not continue to be homeless with my many diseases. I really need help. More information about my trouble is available in the text of my unsuccessful ended campaign on Indiegogo http://igg.me/at/amateur-astronomer In wanderings, we are starving (we do not have earnings/a source of income: salaries, fees, pensions, allowances, payments, scholarships and we do not have free: foodstuffs, medicines, clothes and shoes), suffering and need help!

My pages in social networks:

https://facebook.com/romanov.philipp
https://twitter.com/romanov_filipp
https://instagram.com/romanov_filipp

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