It is named for Pyotr Nesterov, a pilot of the Imperial Russian Air Force, and the first pilot to perform the aerobatic maneuver known as a loop.
Pyotr Bagration | Mikhail Nesterov | Pyotr Kapitsa | Pyotr Vyazemsky | Pyotr Stepanov | Pyotr Nikolsky | Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel | Pyotr Nesterov | Pyotr Leshchenko | Pyotr Krasnov | Pyotr Kozlov | Pyotr Kolodin | Pyotr Suvchinsky | Pyotr Rumyantsev | ''Pyotr Potemkin'' by Godfrey Kneller | Pyotr Mikhaylovich Yershov | Pyotr Leshchenko (TV Series) | Pyotr Dolgorukov | Pyotr Demichev | Pyotr Blinov | Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy | Nesterov | Ignatiy Nesterov |
Prominent aviation figures of that period include Kievites Pyotr Nesterov (aerobatics pioneer) and Igor Sikorsky.