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Russian names in space

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

Minor planets

Comets

Interstellar comets

Asteroids

Features on asteroids

Mathilde
  • Kuznetsk crater - after a Russian coal basin

Moons

The Moon

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

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

Dwarf planets

Pluto

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


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