Chekhov is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 194 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the

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(IAU) in 1976. Chekhov is named for the Russian author

Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...

, who lived from 1860 to 1904. Chekhov is one of 110 peak ring basins on Mercury. On the eastern side of the peak ring is a ''dark spot'' of low reflectance material (LRM), closely associated with hollows.Zhiyong Xiao, Robert G. Strom, David T. Blewett, Paul K. Byrne, Sean C. Solomon, Scott L. Murchie, Ann L. Sprague, Deborah L. Domingue, Jörn Helbert, 2013. ''Dark spots on Mercury: A distinctive low-reflectance material and its relation to hollows''. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.
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/ref> The small rayed crater Popova is to the west of Chekhov.

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is to the north, Wergeland is to the east, and the similar-sized crater

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is to the southeast. Chekhov crater EN0239668090M EN0239668042M

Schubert and Chekhov craters EW0228589220G

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