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23409 Derzhavin (provisional designation: 1978 QF1) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Nikolai Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory near Nauchnyj Ukraine on August 31 1978. It is named after Gavrila Derzhavin a Russian poet and statesman of the 18th and 19th centuries.