Nesterov (disambiguation)
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Nesterov or Nesterova (feminine; Нестерова), is a Russia
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Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
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Surname
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and may refer to:
People
- Anatoly Nesterov, a Soviet therapist and academician
- Igor Nesterov, a Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet UnionHero of the Soviet UnionThe title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.-Overview:...
- Mikhail NesterovMikhail NesterovMikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov was a major representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art. He was a pupil of Pavel Tchistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki...
, a Russian painter - Nikolai Nikolayevich Nesterov, a Russian guitar player
- Nikolai Stepanovich Nesterov, a Russian forestry specialist
- Pyotr NesterovPyotr NesterovPyotr Nikolayevich Nesterov was a Russian pilot, an aircraft technical designer and an aerobatics pioneer.-Life and career:The son of a military academy teacher, Pyotr Nesterov decided to choose a military career. In August 1904 he left the military school in Nizhny Novgorod and went to the...
, a Russian aviator, the namesake of the Nesterov Loop aircraft aerobatic maneuverAerobatic maneuverAerobatic maneuvers are flight paths putting aircraft in unusual attitudes, in air shows, dog fights or competition aerobatics. Aerobatics can be performed by a single aircraft or in formation with several others... - Sergey Nesterov, a Soviet World War II hero
Places
- NesterovNesterovNesterov is a town and the administrative center of Nesterovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Population: -History:In the Middle Ages, the area in Old Prussia had been settled by the Nadruvian tribe of the Baltic Prussians. It was conquered by the Teutonic Knights about 1276 and...
, a Russian town named after Sergey Nesterov - Nesterov (Ukraine), a town in Lviv OblastLviv OblastLviv Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939...
in Ukraine named after Pyotr Nesterov
Other
- Asteroid 3071 Nesterov3071 Nesterov3071 Nesterov is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on March 28, 1973, by T. Smirnova at Nauchnyj. It is named for Pyotr Nesterov, a pilot of the Imperial Russian Air Force, and the first pilot to perform many classic aerobatic maneuvers....
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