Honors
- A minor planet 3073 Kursk discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh in 1979 is named after the city.
- The Russian submarine Kursk was named after the city.
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Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (16311700)
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)