Named in honor of Semyon Stepanovich Geichenko, writer and literary scholar, researcher of the life and the creative work of A. S. Pushkin {see planet  (2208)}. Geichenko is especially known as director and curator of Mikhailovskoe, the Pushkin country-house museum in the Pskov region. He made a great effort to rebuild this memorial to Pushkin following its destruction in World War II. (M 22501) _ _.