Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1889 – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (/ɑːkˈmeɪtəvə/;Russian: Анна Ахматова, IPA: [ɐxˈmatəvə]), was a Russian modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.
Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935–40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. The strong and clear leading female voice struck a new chord in Russian poetry. Her writing can be said to fall into two periods – the early work (1912–25) and her later work (from around 1936 until her death), divided by a decade of reduced literary output. Her work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate, and remaining in Russia, acting as witness to the events around her. Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism.
3067 Akhmatova, provisional designation 1982 TE2, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 October 1982, by Soviet–Russian female astronomers Lyudmila Karachkina and Lyudmila Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula.
The S-type asteroid is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.9–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,229 days). Its orbit is tilted by 5 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic and shows an eccentricity of 0.14. The body has a well-defined rotation period of 3.686 hours and an albedo of 0.27, based on observations by the U.S. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a value of 0.24, identical to the albedo of the asteroid family's namesake, the asteroid 8 Flora.
The minor planet was named in honor of Russian modernist poet, Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), outstanding poetess, awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford.