Sputnik (disambiguation) explained

Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite, launched October 1957.

Sputnik may also refer to:

Places

Terrestrial

• Sputnik (rural locality), a list of rural localities in Russia
• Sputnik, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
• Sputnik Islands, Ob' Bay, Antarctica

Extraterrestrial

• Sputnik Planitia, a glacial plain and basin on Pluto
• 16260 Sputnik, an asteroid

People

• Sputnik (singer) or Knut T. Storbukås (born 1943), Norwegian country singer
• Sputnik Källström (1939–2009), Swedish race car driver
• Sputnik Monroe (1928–2006), American professional wrestler
• Sputnik Weazel (born 1960), British singer
• Sputnik (artist), a Swedish musician who most notably involves in a solo project called Weatherday.

Fictional characters

• Sputnik, a fictional bull terrier from Space Buddies
• Sputnik, a character from Astroblast!
• Sputnik (comics), a character from Marvel Comics

Vehicles and transportation

• Sputnik (rocket), an unmanned orbital carrier rocket derived from the R-7 Semyorka ICBM
• Sputnik; GRAU index 11A59; a rocket otherwise called Polyot (rocket)
• Sputnik (spacecraft designation)
• Sputnik (train), a Moscow oblast train service using an electric multiple unit
• Lada Sputnik, an automobile
• Trabant Sputnik, an automobile
• New South Wales Sputnik suburban carriage stock, an electric multiple unit

Film and television

• Sputnik (film), a 2020 Russian science fiction horror film
• Sputnik (TV programme), a 2013 British television programme
• TV 2 Sputnik, a Danish on-demand TV channel

Music

• Sputnik (album), a 2018 album by Luca Carboni
• "Sputnik", a 1981 song by Roky Erickson and The Aliens on their debut album The Evil One
• "Sputnik", a 2015 song by Public Service Broadcasting from The Race for Space
• "Sputnik", a 2018 song by Luca Carboni off the eponymous album Sputnik (album)
• The Spotnicks, a Swedish instrumental rock group
• Sputnikmusic, a music review website

Sports

• FC Sputnik Buguruslan, a Russian football team
• FC Sputnik Kimry, a Russian football team
• FC Sputnik Rechitsa, a Russian football team
• Sputnik Nizhny Tagil, a Russian ice hockey team
• Kohtla-Järve Viru Sputnik, an Estonian ice hockey team

Other media

• Sputnik (magazine), a former Soviet magazine published in multiple languages
  • Sputnik Monthly Digest, the English language edition of Спутник
• Sputnik (news agency), a news agency operated by the Russian government
• Sputnik (radio station), a public German radio station
• Radio Sputnik (disambiguation)

Other uses

• Sputnik (JavaScript conformance test)
• Sputnik (search engine), a search engine owned by Rostelecom
• Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac), a COVID-19 vaccine from Russia
• Sputnik virophage
• IZh-59 "Sputnik", a Soviet double-barreled shotgun