Kondratyuk is a worn

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on the

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. It is located to the west-northwest of the large walled plain

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, and to the northeast of the crater Hilbert. To the north-northwest is Meitner, and to the northeast lies Langemak. This is an eroded crater formation with a rim that has been partly damaged by subsequent impacts. The small, sharp-rimmed satellite crater Kondratyuk A lies on the interior floor, along the northeast inner wall. In the southwest part of the floor is Kondratyuk Q. Prior to formal naming by the

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in 1970, Kondratyuk was called ''Crater 278''.Lunar Farside Chart (LFC-1A)
2nd Edition October 1967 It is named in honor of

Yuri Kondratyuk Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk (russian: Юрий Васильевич Кондратюк; ukr, Юрій Васильович Кондратюк; 21 June 1897 – February 1942), real name Aleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei (russian: Алекса́нд� ...

, a Ukrainian and Soviet engineer and mathematician, who fought and died in

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, as a volunteer of the

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Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Kondratyuk. In this case both satellite craters are within Kondratyuk itself.

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