title: Shirshov
text: # Shirshov
  
  Shirshov may refer to:
  
  People:
  
  * Aleksandr Shirshov (born 1972), Russian fencer
  * Anatoly Illarionovich Shirshov (1921–1981), Soviet mathematician
  * Nikolay Shirshov (born 1974), Uzbekistani football midfielder
  * Pyotr Shirshov (1905–1953), Russian Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician, Hero of the Soviet Union (1938)
  
  Geography:
  
  * Shirshov Ridge, on the eastern border of the Commander Basin below the Kamchatka Peninsula
  * Mount Shirshov, a small mountain 3 miles northeast of Mount Selwood in the Tula Mountains, Enderby Land
  * Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, the largest institute for ocean and earth science research in Russia
  