Mir (disambiguation)

Mir (Template:Lang-sla, peace, in Russian also world) or MIR may refer to:

Soviet or Russian context

• Mir, a Soviet, later Russian space station
• STS Mir, a Russian sailing ship
• MIR (submersible), a self-propelled Deep Submergence Vehicle
• Mir (computer), an early Soviet personal computer
• Mir (lens), a Soviet photographic lens
• Mir Publishers, a Russian publishing house
• Mir (commune) or Mir (social), a type of rural community in Imperial Russia

Places

• Mir, Belarus
• Mir Mine, an abandoned open-pit diamond mine in East Siberia

Judaism

• Mir yeshiva (Poland), the original Mir Yeshiva, a rabbinical school in what is now Mir, Belarus
• Mir (Jerusalem), or Mir Yeshiva, a rabbinical school in Jerusalem, successor to the Mir Yeshiva in Poland
• Mir (Brooklyn), or Mir Yeshiva, a rabbinical school in New York, successor to the Mir Yeshiva in Poland

Acronym

• Mail-in rebate, a coupon for consumers to use to receive a refund
• Management International Review, an economical journal dealing with aspects of international management
• Maximum Information Rate, the maximum bandwidth in broadband wireless
• The Mechanics' Institute Review
• Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, a Japanese railway company
• Monastir International Airport, in Tunisia
• Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, name of various Latin American political parties
• Micropower Impulse Radar, a radar system developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Moving Image Retoucher, a software tool for video and movie repair
• Multiple isomorphous replacement, a technique used in crystallography
• Music information retrieval, the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music

People

• Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), Urdu poet
• Pedro Mir (1913-2000), poet, laureate of the Dominican Republic
• Aasmah Mir, Scottish-Pakistani television presenter
• Frank Mir, American mixed martial artist, former UFC heavyweight champion
• Mir Afsar Ali, Indian radio jockey and television anchor
• Hamid Mir, Pakistani journalist and a terrorism expert and security analyst.
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the Prime minister of mid 80's of I.R Iran, and the candidate of 10th presidential elections of the country.

Other uses

• Mir (band), a Canadian music group
• Mir (title), title for a ruler derived from Arabic Emir
• Mir (tribe), a tribe in the Punjab area of Pakistan
• Mir, a character in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia, a 2006 videogame
• Abbreviation of microRNA
• Mir, a place in Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's Time's Eye

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with mir
• All pages with titles containing mir
• Mire (disambiguation)