2233 Kuznetsov (1972 XE1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 3 December 1972 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It was named after Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (1911–44) a Russian intelligence agent WWII partisan and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.
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