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
 
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