Named after B.T. Konoplev - Soviet radio engineer (1912-1960).
Konoplev is a small lunar crater that is located. It lies less than a crater diameter to the west of the satellite crater Ellerman Q. Ellerman itself is located farther to the northeast. To the north-northeast is the larger crater Gerasimovich. This crater lies near the outer fringes of the huge skirt of ejecta that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin to the east. (wikipedia entry)
A crater is a circular depression likely created by an impact event. On the Moon they are named after deceased scientists, polar explorers, astronauts or cosmonauts.