Krusenstern is a lunar impact crater that lies amidst the battered terrain in the southern part of the Moon's near side.

A joined pair of craters, including Krusenstern A, lie along the eastern rim.

The interior floor of Krusenstern is a nearly featureless plain, marked only by a few tiny craterlets.

[1] It is named after Adam Johann von Krusenstern, an early 19th-century Baltic German explorer in Russian service.

[4][1] By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Krusenstern.