Russian names in space
This is a list of space objects and features which were named after Russian people:
Minor planets[]
Comets[]
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[]
- 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[]
See also[]
Sources[]
- Meanings of minor planet names: 1–1000
- Lists of geological features of the Solar System
- List of craters in the Solar System
- List of people with craters of the Moon named after them
- List of minor planets named after people
- List of astronomical objects named after people
- List of galaxies named after people
- Stars named after people
Categories:
- Space program of Russia
- Astronomical nomenclature by nation