2173 Maresjev is a Main-belt asteroid that was discovered August 22 1974 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. Its diameter is 17 km.It was named in honor of Alexej Petrovich Maresjev the protagonist in the novel Story about a True Man (also translated as Story of a Real Man) by Boris Polevoi. The story which was never substantiated as fact was an immensely popular Russian book that was eventually made into an opera.
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