Mayak
Mayak (Russian Маяк "lighthouse") means:
- the Mayak nuclear power plant near Chelyabinsk (Russia)
- a projected launch vehicle from the Ukrainian design office KB Yuzhnoye
The following places are called Mayak :
- Maiac (Transnistria) (Moldovan form of name), city in the Republic of Moldova or Transnistria
in Russia:
- Mayak (Altai) , settlement in the Altai region, Charyschskoye district
- Mayak (Khabarovsk) , village in the Khabarovsk region, Nanaisky Raion
- Majak (Kaliningrad) , settlement in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Svetlogorsk Raion ( Brüsterort , Fischhausen / Samland district, East Prussia)
- Mayak (Kaliningrad, Nesterow) , submerged place in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Nesterow district ( Dobaven , 1938 to 1946 Dobauen , Goldap district, East Prussia)
- Mayak (Krasnodar) , settlement in the Krasnodar Territory, Otradnaya Raion
- Mayak (Lipetsk) , settlement in Lipetsk Oblast, Jelets Raion
- Mayak (Omsk) , village in Omsk Oblast, Okoneschnikowski Raion
- Mayak (Samara) , a settlement belonging to the city of Novokuibyshevsk , Samara Oblast
- Mayak (Chelyabinsk) , settlement in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Bredy Raion
- Mayak (Tula) , settlement in Tula Oblast, Saoksky district
in Ukraine:
- Mayak (Makiyivka) , urban-type settlement belonging to Makiyivka city
- Mayak (Barwinkowe) , village in Kharkiv Oblast, Barwinkowe Raion
- Mayak (Dobropillja) , settlement in Donetsk Oblast, Dobropillja district
- Mayak (Kryvyi Rih) , village in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Kryvyi Rih Raion
- Mayak (Pokrovské) , village in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Pokrovské Raion
- Mayak (Melitopol) , village in Zaporizhia Oblast, Melitopol Raion
- Mayak (Zolochiv) , village in Kharkiv Oblast, Zolochiv Raion
- Mayak (Sverdlovsk) , village in Luhansk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Raion
- Mayak (Tomakivka) , settlement in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Tomakivka Raion
- Mayak (Chornomorske) , village in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Chornomorske Raion
Mayak is the name of a mountain in Ukraine:
- Mayak (mountain) , 189.8 m high mountain near Libknechtiwka on the Kerch peninsula
Mayak is the family name of:
- Rudolf Deng Majak (1940-2017), South Sudanese clergyman, Roman Catholic Bishop of Wau
- Sławomir Majak (* 1969), Polish football player
See also:
- Radio Mayak
- South Ural nuclear power plant (formerly planned as Mayak nuclear power plant)