thumb|240px|right|Oblique view of Catena Mendeleev from [[Apollo 11, with Richards at the top center. NASA photo.]]
thumb|right|240px|[[Apollo 16 image of interior of Mendeleev. Fischer is above center, and Richards is in upper left. Harden is in lower right. Benedict is along bottom edge.]]
thumb|240px|left|Oblique view also from Apollo 16
Richards is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the northern interior of the walled plain Mendeleev, on the far side of the Moon. It lies about half-way between the craters Bergman to the west-southwest and Fischer to the east, both also within Mendeleev's interior.
This is a circular, cup-shaped crater with a small interior floor at the midpoint of the sloping inner walls. The interior sides have a higher albedo than the surroundings. The infrared spectrum of pure crystalline plagioclase has been identified inside the crater walls and on the rim.
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