Braude is a

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located on the

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. The crater is named after radio astronomer

Semion Braude Semion Yakovlevich Braude (; 28 January 1911 – 29 June 2003) was a Soviet and Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer. Of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, Braude was born in Poltava, Ukraine, and pursued his higher education at the National Universi ...

. The crater was adopted by the

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in 2009. The nearest major feature is the Schrödinger crater. Also located nearby is the Wiechert crater, which is located less than 170 kilometers from the southern pole. Braude was proposed in 2018 as the landing site for a potential Ukrainian mission to the Moon, specifically as the site of a landing probe.

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LAC-144 area
– Map of southern lunar pole LQ30 quadrangle Impact craters on the Moon {{Moon-crater-stub