Petropavlovsky is a

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on the

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of the Moon. It is attached to the southern rim of the slightly larger crater Razumov, intruding slightly into the interior. Just to the west is the crater

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, along the southern rim of the walled plain Landau. This is a moderately eroded feature, with a worn outer rim that is marked by several lesser impacts. A merged pair of small craters cuts across the northwestern rim and inner wall, and another craterlet lies along the southeast rim. The interior floor is relatively level, except for a double central peak formation at the midpoint. The crater was named after Boris Sergeevich Petropavlovsky, a Soviet rocket pioneer.Brief chronology of rocket engine building in the USSR
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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 Petropavlovskiy.

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