Bondarenko (crater)
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Bondarenko is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the northeast of the large, dark-floored crater Tsiolkovskiy, and south of the crater Chauvenet. This is a worn crater formation with an irregular floor, similar to other craters in the area, which are covered by ejecta from Tsiolkovskiy.
The crater was known as Patsaev G until 1991, when it was renamed by the IAU.<ref>Bondarenko, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)</ref> Patsaev itself is to the west of Bondarenko. It is named for Valentin Bondarenko (1937–1961), an early Soviet cosmonaut killed in a training simulator accident.
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