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Q: Context: 1836 Komarov, provisional designation 1971 OT, is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 26 July 1971 by Nikolai Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj.
Question: Who discovered 1836 Komarov?
A:
nikolai chernykh