Kashtan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Dror Kashtan Dror Kashtan ( he, דרור קשטן, born 1 October 1944) is an Israeli former football player and manager. As a player, he represented the Israeli national team three times. As a manager, he took charge of numerous clubs as well as the Israel ...

(born 1944), Israeli footballer and manager * Nikita Kashtan (born 2003), Russian footballer *

William Kashtan William Kashtan (27 June 1909 – 1993) was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada for 23 years beginning in January 1965, several months following the death of Leslie Morris, until his retirement in 1988. The delay in his a ...

(1909–1993), general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada

Other uses

* In Russian, the word "Kashtan" (''Каштан'') means "

chestnut The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Castanea'', in the beech family Fagaceae. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. The unrelat ...

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Kashtan CIWS The Kortik (russian: Кортик, "dirk") close-in weapon system (CIWS) is a modern naval air defence gun-missile system deployed by the Russian Navy. Its export version is known as Kashtan (russian: Каштан, English: Chestnut), with the N ...

(close-in weapon system) is a Russian anti-air system mainly used on naval ships or stationary turrets. {{surname, Kashtan