Mir was a Soviet/Russian space station.

Mir or MIR may also refer to:

Places

  • Mir, Belarus, an urban settlement
  • Mir Castle Complex, a historic fortified castle in Belarus
  • Mir, Vareš, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Mir (Calixto García), a village in Holguín Province, Cuba
  • Mir, Iran, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
  • Mir, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
  • Mir mine, an abandoned open-pit diamond mine in East Siberia
  • MiR, Musiktheater im Revier, a theater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
  • Mir (theatre), a theatre in Moscow, Russia

People with the name

  • Mir (title), a title for a ruler
  • Mir (surname), a surname
  • Mir (given name), a given name

Science and technology

  • Mir (lens), a Soviet photographic lens
  • Mir (payment system), a Russian card payment system
  • Mid-infrared
  • Micropower Impulse Radar
  • microRNA (miRNA or miR), a small non-coding RNA molecule
  • Multiple isomorphous replacement, a crystallographic technique
  • Music information retrieval

Computing

  • Mir, an Independent Media Center content management system
  • Mir (software), a computer display server
  • MIR (computer), an early Soviet personal computer
  • Maximum Information Rate of broadband wireless data
  • Mid-level or medium Intermediate representation

Publishing

  • Mir Publishers, a Russian publishing house
  • Management International Review, a journal
  • The Mechanics' Institute Review
  • McGill International Review

Music

  • Mir (band), a Canadian music group
  • Mir (South Korean singer), Bang Chul-yong, member of band MBLAQ
  • Mir (album), a 2011 album by Ott

Organizations

  • , several South American groups known as Revolutionary Left Movement (disambiguation)
  • Mir (ferris wheel manufacturer), Russian company
  • Military Intelligence Research (MIR), later MD1, a British WWII military R&D organisation
  • Mir (television company)

Judaism

  • Mir yeshiva (Belarus)
  • Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn), successor to the Belarus Mir Yeshiva
  • Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem), successor to the Belarus Mir Yeshiva

Transportation

  • Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, a Japanese railway company
  • STS Mir, a Russian sailing ship
  • Mir (submersible), a self-propelled Deep Submergence Vehicle
  • MIR, the IATA code for Monastir International Airport in Tunisia

Fiction

  • Mir, a character in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia
  • Mir, a fictional place in Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

Other uses

  • Mir (commune), a type of rural community in Imperial Russia
  • MIR contest, rubber subculture event formerly known as Mr. International Rubber
  • Mail-in rebate, a coupon
  • MIR, Master of International Relations
  • mir, ISO 639-3 language code for Isthmus Mixe
  • Meriam language or Mir, Torres Strait Islands, Australia
  • NTV Mir, a Russian television channel

See also

  • Battle of Mir (disambiguation)
  • Mir-e Aliabad, in Yazd Province, Iran
  • Myrrh
  • Mire (disambiguation)
  • Mir 1 (disambiguation)
  • Mir 2 (disambiguation)
  • Mir 3 (disambiguation)