Mir (disambiguation) explained

Mir was a Soviet/Russian space station.

Mir or MIR may also refer to:

Places

• Mir, Belarus, an urban settlement
• Mir Castle Complex, a historic fortified castle in Belarus
• Mir, Vareš, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Mir (Calixto García), a village in Holguín Province, Cuba
• Mir, Iran, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
• Mir, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
• Mir mine, an abandoned open-pit diamond mine in East Siberia
• MiR, Musiktheater im Revier, a theater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
• Mir (theatre), a theatre in Moscow, Russia

People with the name

• Mir (title), a title for a ruler
• Mir (surname), a surname
• Mir (given name), a given name

Science and technology

• Mir (lens), a Soviet photographic lens
• Mir (payment system), a Russian card payment system
• Mid-infrared
• Micropower Impulse Radar
• microRNA (miRNA or miR), a small non-coding RNA molecule
• Multiple isomorphous replacement, a crystallographic technique
• Music information retrieval

Computing

• Mir, an Independent Media Center content management system
• Mir (software), a computer display server
• MIR (computer), an early Soviet personal computer
• Maximum Information Rate of broadband wireless data
• Mid-level or medium Intermediate representation

Publishing

• Mir Publishers, a Russian publishing house
• Management International Review, a journal
• The Mechanics' Institute Review
• McGill International Review

Music

• Mir (band), a Canadian music group
• Mir (South Korean singer), Bang Chul-yong, member of band MBLAQ
• Mir (album), a 2011 album by Ott

Organizations

• Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento de (la) Izquierda Revolucionaria, several South American groups known as Revolutionary Left Movement (disambiguation)
• Mir (ferris wheel manufacturer), Russian company
• Military Intelligence Research (MIR), later MD1, a British WWII military R&D organisation
• Mir (television company)

Judaism

• Mir yeshiva (Belarus)
• Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn), successor to the Belarus Mir Yeshiva
• Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem), successor to the Belarus Mir Yeshiva

Transportation

• Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, a Japanese railway company
• STS Mir, a Russian sailing ship
• Mir (submersible), a self-propelled Deep Submergence Vehicle
• MIR, the IATA code for Monastir International Airport in Tunisia

Fiction

• Mir, a character in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia
• Mir, a fictional place in Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

Other uses

• Mir (commune), a type of rural community in Imperial Russia
• MIR contest, rubber subculture event formerly known as Mr. International Rubber
• Mail-in rebate, a coupon
• MIR, Master of International Relations
• mir, ISO 639-3 language code for Isthmus Mixe
• Meriam language or Mir, Torres Strait Islands, Australia

See also

• Battle of Mir (disambiguation)
• Mir-e Aliabad, in Yazd Province, Iran
• Myrrh
• Mire (disambiguation)
  • • Mir 1 (disambiguation) Mir 2 (disambiguation) Mir 3 (disambiguation)