Russian names in space

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

Asteroids
As of March 2024, there are 103+ asteroids named after Soviet/Russian people and places, most of which are located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter


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 * 232 Russia || A883 BA || Russia || ·
 * 232 Russia || A883 BA || Russia || ·


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 * 675 Ludmilla || || A character in the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila (1820) by Mikhail Glinka || ·


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 * 749 Malzovia || || Nikolai Maltsov || ·


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 * 762 Pulcova || || Pulkovo Observatory, Russia || ·


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 * 769 Tatjana || || The heroine of Eugene Onegin (1833) by Aleksandr Pushkin || ·


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 * 779 Nina || || Nina N. Neujmina (1877–1956), sister of Grigory Neujmin || ·


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 * 786 Bredichina || || Fyodor Bredikhin (1831–1904) || ·


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 * 787 Moskva || || Moscow, Russia || ·


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 * 807 Ceraskia || || Vitold Tserasky (1849–1925) || ·


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 * 824 Anastasia || || Anastasia Semenoff || ·


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 * 825 Tanina || || Princess Tanina || ·


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 * 829 Academia || || Russian Academy of Sciences || ·


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 * 830 Petropolitana || || St. Petersburg, Russia || ·


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 * 847 Agnia || || Agnia I. Bad'ina (1877–1956) || ·


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 * 848 Inna || || Nikolaevna L. Balanovskaya (1881–1945) || ·


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 * 852 Wladilena || A916 GM || Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) || ·


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 * 856 Backlunda || A916 GQ || Oskar Backlund (1846–1916) || ·


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 * 857 Glasenappia || A916 GR || Sergey Glazenap (1848–1937) || ·


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 * 882 Swetlana || || Svetlana, a Russian feminine name || ·


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 * 969 Leocadia || || Leocadia, a Russian feminine name || ·


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 * 995 Sternberga || || Pavel Shternberg (1865–1920) || ·


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 * 1004 Belopolskya || || Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854–1934) || ·


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 * 1007 Pawlowia || || Ivan P. Pavlov (1849–1936) || ·


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 * 1028 Lydina || || Lydia Albitskaya, wife of Vladimir Albitsky || ·


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 * 1059 Mussorgskia || || Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) || ·


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 * 1074 Beljawskya || || Sergey Belyavsky (1883–1953) || ·


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 * 1075 Helina || || Helij G. Neujmin, son of Grigory Neujmin || ·


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 * 1094 Siberia || || Siberia, Russia || ·


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 * 1099 Figneria || || Vera Figner (1852–1942) || ·


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 * 1113 Katja || || Katja, a Russian feminine name || ·


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 * 1118 Hanskya || || Alexis Hansky (1872–1908) || ·


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 * 1121 Natascha || || Natasha "Natalia" Tichomirova, Russian hydro-geologist and daughter of Grigory Neujmin || ·


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 * 1129 Neujmina || || Grigory Neujmin (1885–1946) || ·


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 * 1147 Stavropolis || || Stavropol, Russia || ·


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 * 1149 Volga || || Volga River, Russia || ·


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 * 1158 Luda || || Luda, shortened version of Ludmilla || ·


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 * 1167 Dubiago || || Alexander Dubyago (1903–1959) || ·


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 * 1189 Terentia || || Lidiya I. Terenteva (1879–1933) || ·


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 * 1190 Pelagia || || Pelageya Shajn (1894–1956) || ·


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 * 1204 Renzia || || Franz Robert Renz (1860–1942) || ·


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 * 1206 Numerowia || || Boris Numerov (1891–1941) || ·


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 * 1210 Morosovia || || Nikolai A. Morozov (1854–1946) || ·


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 * 1255 Schilowa || || Mariya V. Zhilova (1870–1934) || ·


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 * 1306 Scythia || || Scythia, an ancient region within present-day Russia and Ukraine || ·


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 * 1316 Kasan || || Kazan, Russia || ·


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 * 1330 Spiridonia || || Spiridon Zaslavsky (1883–1942) || ·


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 * 1369 Ostanina || || Ostanin, Russia || ·


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 * 1379 Lomonosowa || || Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) || ·


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 * 1380 Volodia || || Vladimir Vesselovsky || ·


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 * 1459 Magnya || || Magnya, Russian word meaning "clear, bright and wonderful" || ·


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 * 1479 Inkeri || || Ingria, Russia || ·


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 * 1480 Aunus || || Olonets, Russia || ·


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 * 1590 Tsiolkovskaja || || Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) || ·


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 * 1603 Neva || || Neva River, Russia || ·


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 * 1606 Jekhovsky || || Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881–1975) || ·


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 * 1610 Mirnaya || || Mirnaya, Russian word meaning "peaceful" || ·


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 * 1621 Druzhba || || Druzhba, Russian word meaning "friendship" || ·


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 * 1648 Shajna || || Grigory Shajn (1892–1956) || ·


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 * 1653 Yakhontovia || || N. S. Yakhontova || ·


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 * 1654 Bojeva || || Nina F. Bojeva (1890–1956) || ·


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 * 1671 Chaika || || Valentina Tereshkova || ·


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 * 1772 Gagarin || || Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) || ·


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 * 1836 Komarov || || Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967) || ·


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 * 1855 Korolev || || Sergei Korolev (1907–1966) || ·


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 * 1979 Sakharov || || Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) || ·


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 * 2227 Otto Struve || || Otto Struve (1897–1963) || ·


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 * 2233 Kuznetsov || || Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911–1944) || ·


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 * 2266 Tchaikovsky || || Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) || ·


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 * 2325 Chernykh || || Lyudmila (1935–2017) and Nikolai Chernykh (1931–2004) || ·


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 * 2700 Baikonur || || Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan || ·


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 * 2776 Baikal || || Lake Baikal, Russia || ·


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 * 3010 Ushakov || || Fyodor Ushakov (1745–1817) || ·


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 * 3013 Dobrovoleva || || Oleg Dobrovolsky (1914–1989) || ·


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 * 3038 Bernes || || Mark Bernes (1911–1969) || ·


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 * 3039 Yangel || || Mikhail Yangel (1911–1971) || ·


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 * 3067 Akhmatova || || Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) || ·


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 * 3068 Khanina || || Frida Khanina || ·


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 * 3170 Dzhanibekov || || Vladimir Dzhanibekov || ·


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 * 3942 Churivannia || || Ivan I. Churyumov (1929–1988) || ·


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 * 3946 Shor || || Viktor A. Shor (1929–2021) || ·


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 * 5154 Leonov || || Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994) || ·


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 * 6180 Bystritskaya || || Ehlina A. Bystritskaya (1928–2019) || ·


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 * 6278 Ametkhan || || Amet-khan Sultan (1920–1971) || ·


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 * 6355 Univermoscow || || Lomonosov Moscow State University || ·


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 * 6356 Tairov || || Vasiliy E. Tairov (1859–1938) || ·


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 * 6357 Glushko || || Valentin Glushko (1908–1989) || ·


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 * 6358 Chertok || || Boris Chertok (1912–2011) || ·


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 * 6359 Dubinin || || Yuri Dubinin (1930–2013) || ·


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 * 6719 Gallaj || || Mark L. Gallaj (1914–1998) || ·


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 * 6763 Kochiny || || Pelageya (1899–1999) and Nikolai Kochin (1901–1944) || ·


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 * 6764 Kirillavrov || || Kirill Lavrov (1925–2007) || ·


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 * 6821 Ranevskaya || || Faina Ranevskaya (1896–1984) || ·


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 * 6890 Savinykh || || Viktor Savinykh || ·


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 * 7469 Krikalev || || Sergei Krikalev || ·


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 * 9533 Aleksejleonov || || Alexei Leonov (1934–2019) || ·


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 * 11010 Artemieva || || Natalia Artemieva || ·


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 * 11011 KIAM || || Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM) || ·


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 * 11015 Romanenko || || Boris I. Romanenko (1912–) || ·


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 * 11016 Borisov || || Vladimir A. Borisov (1809–1862) || ·


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 * 11026 Greatbotkin || || Botkin Hospital, Moscow || ·


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 * 11027 Astafʹev || || Victor P. Astafʹev (1924–2001) || ·


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 * 14519 Ural || || Ural River, Russia/Kazakhstan || ·


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 * 365756 ISON || || International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) || ·
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Features on asteroids

 * Mathilde
 * Kuznetsk crater - after a Russian coal basin

Comets
As of March 2024, there are 28 known comets discovered by Russian astronomers

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

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

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

Stars and exoplanets
As of March 2024, only HAT-P-3 and its planet (b) have IAU-approved Russian formal names, which they received during the second NameExoWorlds campaign in 2019