Russian names in space
# Russian names in space

This is a list of space objects and features which were named after Russian people:

## Minor planets

* 232 Russia

## Comets

* 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

## Interstellar comets

* 2I/Borisov - after Gennadiy Borisov

## Asteroids

* 1004 Belopolskya - after Aristarkh Belopolsky
* 1007 Pawlowia - after Ivan P. Pavlov
* 1028 Lydina
* 1059 Mussorgskia
* 1074 Beljawskya
* 1075 Helina
* 1094 Siberia
* 1099 Figneria
* 1113 Katja
* 1118 Hanskya
* 1121 Natascha
* 1129 Neujmina
* 1147 Stavropolis
* 1149 Volga
* 1158 Luda
* 1167 Dubiago
* 1189 Terentia
* 1190 Pelagia
* 1204 Renzia
* 1206 Numerowia
* 1210 Morosovia
* 2227 Otto Struve - after Otto Struve
* 2325 Chernykh

### Features on asteroids

**Mathilde**

* Kuznetsk crater - after a Russian coal basin

## Moons

### The Moon

* Andronov (crater) - after Aleksandr Andronov
* Artamonov (crater) and Catena Artamonov - after Nikolay Artamonov
* Beketov (crater)
* Belopol'skiy (crater)
* Belyaev (crater)
* Boris (crater) and Rupes Boris - after Boris (a common Russian masculine name)
* Butlerov (crater)
* Catena Yuri
* Dorsa Andrusov - after Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov
* Dorsa Smirnov - after Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov
* Dorsa Tetyaev - after Mikhail Tetyaev
* Evdokimov (crater)
* Fedorov (crater)
* Feoktistov (crater)
* Fesenkov (lunar crater)
* Firsov (crater)
* Gavrilov (crater)
* Gagarin (crater) - after Yuri Gagarin
* Kleymenov (crater)
* Komarov (crater)
* Konstantinov (crater)
* Kramarov (crater)
* Krasnov (crater)
* Krylov (crater)
* Kurchatov (crater)
* Leonov (crater)
* Lomonosov (lunar crater)
* Lyapunov (crater)
* Maksutov (crater)
* Mare Moscoviense - after Moscow
* Markov (crater)
* Mechnikov (crater)
* Mons Usov - after Mikhail Usov
* Mons Vinogradov - after Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov
* Morozov (crater)
* Numerov (crater)
* Orlov (crater)
* Petrov (crater)
* Polzunov (crater)
* Popov (crater)
* Pavlov (crater) - after Ivan P. Pavlov
* Razumov (crater)
* Sechenov (crater)
* Sharonov (lunar crater)
* Shatalov (crater)
* Steklov (crater)
* Stoletov (crater)
* Tikhomirov (crater)
* Tikhov (lunar crater)
* Titov (crater)
* Vavilov (crater)
* Volkov (crater)
* Yablochkov (crater)
* Yangel' - after Mikhail Yangel

### Io

* Podja Patera - after Podja (Evenk people of Russia and China)
* Purgine Patera - after Purgine (Mordvin people of Russia)
* Tol-Ava Patera - after Tol-Ava (Mordvin people of Russia)

### Callisto

* Numi-Torum crater - after Numi-Torum (Mansi people of Russia)

### Titan

* Buyan Insula - after Buyan, a rocky island in Russian folk tales located on the south shore of Baltic Sea
* Avacha Sinus - after Avacha Bay in Kamchatka, Russia

### Charon

* Sadko crater - after the adventurer who traveled to the bottom of the sea in the medieval Russian epic Bylina

## Planets

### Mercury

* Aksakov (crater)
* Balanchine (crater)
* Barma (crater)
* Belinskij (crater)
* Bunin crater
* Chaikovskij (crater)
* Chekhov (crater)
* Derzhavin (crater)
* Dostoevskij (crater)
* Erté (crater)
* Fet (crater)
* Glinka (crater)
* Gogol (crater)
* Kandinsky (crater)
* Lermontov (crater)
* Mussorgskij (crater)
* Nabokov (crater)
* Petipa (crater)
* Popova (crater)
* Prokofiev (crater)
* Pushkin crater
* Rachmaninoff (crater)
* Repin crater
* Roerich (crater)
* Rublev crater
* Stravinsky (crater)
* Surikov crater
* Tolstoj (crater)
* Turgenev crater

### Venus

* Akhmatova crater - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
* Andreianova crater - Elena Andreianova, Russian ballerina
* Barsova crater - Valeria Barsova, Soviet singer
* Bugoslavskaya crater - Yevgenia Bugoslavskaya, Soviet astronomer

### Mars

* Alexey Tolstoy crater
* Barabashov (crater)
* Barsukov crater
* Belyov crater
* Fesenkov (Martian crater)
* Kasimov crater
* Kirsanov crater
* Koval'sky (crater)
* Krishtofovich crater
* Lomonosov (Martian crater)
* Martynov (crater)
* Moroz crater
* Okhotsk crater
* Olenek crater
* Olom crater
* Ostrov crater
* Palana crater
* Reutov crater
* Revda crater
* Ruza crater
* Rynok crater
* Sabo crater
* Sangar crater
* Satka crater
* Sevi crater
* Sharonov (Martian crater)
* Sian crater
* Sinda crater
* Sokol crater
* Sulak crater
* Tem' crater
* Tikhonravov (crater)
* Tokko crater
* Tokma crater
* Tolon crater
* Tomari crater
* Trud crater
* Tumul crater
* Tura crater
* Turma crater
* Udzha crater
* Ulu crater
* Ulya crater
* Utan crater
* Volgograd crater
* Vol'sk crater
* Yar crater
* Zilair (crater)
* Žulanka crater

## Dwarf planets

### Pluto

* Safronov crater - after Viktor Safronov, Russian astronomer

### Ceres

* Kupalo crater - after Russian (Slavic) god of vegetation and of the harvest
* Baltay Catena - after Mordvin (Mordvinian) agricultural festival
* Gerber Catena - after Udmurt (Volga-Ural region, Russia) agricultural festival

## Exoplanets

* Teberda
