“Jet Nestruev” is a group pseudonym (like “Nicolas Bourbaki”) that was used by Alexandre Vinogradov in co-authorship with participants of his seminar (this according to gdeq.org/Alexandre_Vinogradov).
Form the foreword (dated 2019) of (the second edition of) Nestruev 2020:
Unlike the famous French general [Nicolas Bourbaki], Jet Nestruev is a civilian, and the names of the members of his team are not veiled in secrecy, as are those of the Bourbaki team. For the first edition, they were: Alexander Astashov, Alexey Bocharov, Sergei Duzhin, Alexandre Vinogradov, Mikhail Vinogradov, and Alexey Sossinsky. For the present second edition, they are Alexander Astashov, Alexandre Vinogradov, Mikhail Vinogradov, and Alexey Sossinsky. The figures for both editions were expertly prepared by Alexander Astashov.
The first name, “Jet” is probably an allusion to the jet bundles that play such a central role in the approach to differential equations and differential geometry by these authors (cf. at diffiety). The whole name is kind of a pun in Russian: one of the possible translations for “Jet” is “Струя” (meaning “jet”, “stream” or “flow”), and the surname can be broken up into two parts, “Не” (“Ne”), which is “No” in Russian, and “струев” (“struev”), which is formed from one of the possible declensions of the word “Струя” - “Струе”, with an added “в” at the end to sound more like a typical Russian surname. So the whole name can be roughly translated as “Jet Nojets,” or, to try to retain the joke value, “Jet Nojetski.”
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