It was named after Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (1911–44), a Russian intelligence agent, WWII partisan, and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.
Eduard Kuznetsov | Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov | Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov | Maxim Kuznetsov | Anatoly Kuznetsov | Yevgeny Semyonovich Kuznetsov | Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Kuznetsov | Sergey Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1960) | Sergey Kuznetsov | Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov | Konstantin Kuznetsov (cinematographer) | Dymshits-Kuznetsov hijacking affair |