Krusenstern is a lunar

Moon

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 crater

Impact crater

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 that lies amidst the battered terrain

Terrain

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 in the southern part of the Moon

Moon

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's near side. Nearly attached to the east-southeast rim is the crater Apianus

Apianus (crater)

Apianus is a lunar impact crater that is located on the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. It is located to the northeast of the crater Aliacensis, and to the northwest of Poisson...

. Less than one crater diameter to the southwest is the prominent Werner

Werner (crater)

Werner is a prominent lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. It is almost joined with the crater Aliacensis to the southeast, and the pair form a rugged valley in the intervening gap. Due west of Werner is the distorted Regiomontanus, and to the north is...

. Krusenstern is intruding into a large circular plain to the north designated Playfair G. Playfair

Playfair (lunar crater)

Playfair is a lunar crater that is located in the rugged southern highlands on the near side of the Moon. It lies along the eastern rim of the eroded satellite crater Playfair G, a formation that is almost twice the diameter of Playfair itself...

 itself lies to the northeast.

Krusenstern is 47 kilometers in diameter, and its walls reach a height of 1,600 meters.
Its outer rim has been heavily worn by impact erosion, leaving an irregular ring of rising ridges and an inner wall incised by impacts. A joined pair of craters, including Krusenstern A, lie along the eastern rim. The interior floor of Krusenstern is a nearly featureless plain, marked only by a few tiny craterlets. The crater is from the Pre-Nectarian

Nectarian

The Nectarian Period of the lunar geologic timescale runs from 3920 million years ago to 3850 million years ago. It is the period during which the Nectaris Basin and other major basins were formed by large impact events...

 period, 4.55 to 3.92 billion years ago.

It is named after Adam Johann Krusenstern, an early 19th-century Baltic German

Baltic German

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 explorer in Russia

Russia

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n service.

Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Krusenstern.

Krusenstern	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	26.9° S	5.9° E	5 km