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| 1737 | Severny            | Named by the discoverer in honor of Prof. A. B. Severny {1913–1987}, who was the Director of the Cri | 
| 1771 | Makover            | Named in honor of the late Samuel Gdalevich Makover {1908–1970}, scientist in the I.T.A. since 1946. | 
| 1792 | Reni               | Named in honor of the town Reni (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), the birthplace of A. N. Deuts | 
| 1793 | Zoya               | Named in honor of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya {see planet  (2072)}, the young heroine of the Soviet people | 
| 1805 | Dirikis            | Named in honor of Dr. M{atiss} A. Dirikis {1923–1993}, staff member of the Astronomical Observatory  | 
| 1832 | Mrkos              | Named in honor of Antonin Mrkos {1918–1996}, Director of the Kleť Observatory in Czechoslovakia, wel | 
| 1835 | Gajdariya          | Named in honor of Arkadij Gajdar (1904–1941), Russian writer. (M 3825)	 | 
| 1856 | Ruzena             | Named in honor of Miss Ružena Petrovicova, a staff member of the Kleť Observatory, and an observer o | 
| 1900 | Katyusha           | Named in honor of Ekaterina Ivanovna Zelenko, airwoman who valorously perished at the front in Sept. | 
| 1903 | Adzhimushkaj       | Named in honor of the heroic warriors of the Soviet Army and the Crimean guerillas who fought in the | 
| 1905 | Ambartsumian       | Named in honor of Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian {1908–1996}, a world renowned scientist, the foun | 
| 1907 | Rudneva            | Named in honor of Evgeniya Maksimovna Rudneva, hero of the Soviet Union, member of Moscow branch of  | 
| 1957 | Angara             | Named for a river in Siberia. (M 4190)	 | 
| 1975 | Pikelner           | Named in honor of Solomon Borisovich Pikelner (1921–1975), renowned astronomer, professor at the Uni | 
| 1976 | Kaverin            | Named in memory of Aleksej Aleksandrovich Kaverin (1904–1976), an instructor in astronomy at Irkutsk | 
| 1977 | Shura              | Named in honor of Aleksandr Anatolevich Kosmode-myanskij (1925–1945), hero of the Soviet Union, died | 
| 2004 | Lexell             | St. Petersburg and for a short period Euler’s {see planet  (2002)} successor as professor of mathema | 
| 2032 | Ethel              | Named in honor of the English writer Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864–1960). (M 4482)	 | 
| 2036 | Sheragul           | Named in honor of the Siberian village where the discoverer spent his school years. The name also ho | 
| 2092 | Sumiana | Named for the town of Sumy, in the Ukrainian S.S.R. | 
| 2093 | Genichesk | Named for the discoverer's birthplace, a town in the Ukrainian S.S.R. | 
| 2098 | Zyskin | Named in honor of Lev Yur'evich Zyskin, professor at the Crimean Medical Institute, head of the Pulm | 
| 2111 | Tselina | Named on the 25th anniversary of the development of tselina (virgin soil) and long fallow lands in t | 
| 2113 | Ehrdni | Named in memory of Ehrdni Tel'dzhievich Delikov (1922-1942), a hero from the Kalmyk S.S.R. who was k | 
| 2127 | Tanya | Named in memory of Tanya Savicheva, a 12-year-old schoolgirl who perished during the 1941-1944 block | 
| 2142 | Landau | Named in memory of Lev Davydovich Landau (1908-1968), founder of the study of modern theoretical phy | 
| 2163 | Korczak | Named in memory of Janusz Korczak (1878-1942), Polish writer, teacher and doctor who perished with h | 
| 2164 | Lyalya | Named in memory of Elena (Lyalya) Konstantinovna Ubijvovk (1918-1942), a student in astronomy at Kha | 
| 2186 | Keldysh | Named in memory of Academician Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (1911-1978), famous Soviet scientist a | 
| 2188 | Orlenok | Named on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the all-Union pioneer camp in the Tuapse region.  A | 
| 2190 | Coubertin | Named in memory of Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937), a prominent French public figure, teacher, histo | 
| 2216 | Kerch | Named for the hero city in the Crimea. | 
| 2217 | Eltigen | Named for the site of the heroic landing of Soviet troops in the Crimea in November 1943. | 
| 2232 | Altaj | Named by the discoverer for the place of residence of her mother, Elena Andreevna Vasil'eva. | 
| 2245 | Hekatostos | The Greek ordinal number acknowledges this as the 100th minor planet to be numbered as a result of t | 
| 2251 | Tikhov | Named in memory of Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (1875-1960), active on the staff of the Pulkovo Observ | 
| 2259 | Sofievka           | Named for a dendrological park in Uman’, in the Cherkasskaya district of the {former} Ukrainian SSR. | 
| 2269 | Efremiana          | Named in memory of Ivan Antonovich Efremov (1907–1972), renowned paleontologist and the author of hi | 
| 2279 | Barto              | Named in memory of Agniya Lvovna Barto (1906–1982), a famous Soviet poetess, who dedicated all her w | 
| 2283 | Bunke              | Named in memory of the German patriot Tamara Bunke (1937–1967). (M 7616)	 | 
| 2302 | Florya             | Named in memory of Nikolaj Fyodorovich Florya (1912–1941), astronomer at the Sternberg State Astrono | 
| 2310 | Olshaniya          | Named in honor of Konstantin Olshanskij and the other daring fighters who entered the occupied city  | 
| 2327 | Gershberg          | Named in honor of the Soviet astronomer Roald Evgenevich Gershberg {1933– }, who has made significan | 
| 2328 | Robeson            | Named in memory of the American singer and actor Paul Robeson (1898–1976). (M 6648)	 | 
| 2338 | Bokhan | Named in honor of Nadezhda Antonovna Bokhan, a staff member of the Institute for Theoretical Astrono | 
| 2341 | Aoluta             | Named on the occasion of the centennial, in 1981, of the founding of the Astronomical Observatory of | 
| 2345 | Fucik              | Named in memory of Julius Fučik (1903–1943), a Czechoslovak national hero and writer. (M 6648)	 | 
| 2360 | Volgo-Don          | Named on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the construction of the Volgo-Don Navigation Canal, | 
| 2361 | Gogol              | Named for the celebrated writer Nikolaj Vasil’evich Gogol’ (1809–1852). (M 7783)	 | 
| 2385 | Mustel             | Named in honor of Evald Rudolfovich Mustel’ {1911–1988}, chairman of the Astronomical Council of the | 
| 2388 | Gase               | Named in memory of Vera Fedorovna Gaze (1899–1954), who worked at the Pulkovo and Simeis observatori | 
| 2389 | Dibaj              | Named in memory of Ernest Apushevich Dibaj (1931–1983), an astrophysicist known for his research on  | 
| 2420 | Ciurlionis         | Named in memory of M. K. Čiurlionis (1875–1911), a well-known Lithuanian painter and composer. (M 85 | 
| 2423 | Ibarruri           | Named in memory of Ruben Ibarruri (1920–1942), who died valiantly in the battle of Stalingrad. (M 66 | 
| 2427 | Kobzar             | Named in memory of the great Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Grigor’evich Shevchenko (1814–1861), w | 
| 2431 | Skovoroda          | Named in memory of Grigorij Savvich Skovoroda (1722–1794), an outstanding Ukrainian philosopher and  | 
| 2438 | Oleshko            | Named in memory of Valentina Iosifovna Oleshko (1924–1943), who organized an underground resistance  | 
| 2447 | Kronstadt          | Named for the town, situated on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, that played an integral part i | 
| 2467 | Kollontai          | Named in memory of Aleksandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (1872–1952), who served as Soviet ambassador to  | 
| 2468 | Repin              | Named in honor of Il’ya Efimovich Repin (1844–1930), famous Russian painter. (M 13172)	 | 
| 2473 | Heyerdahl          | Named in honor of Thor Heyerdahl {1914–2002}, outstanding Norwegian ethnographer and archaeologist,  | 
| 2508 | Alupka             | Named for a small town on the south coast of the Crimea, famous for its health resorts, also the Vor | 
| 2519 | Annagerman         | Named in memory of Anna German (1936–1982), a popular Polish variety singer. (M 11156)	 | 
| 2540 | Blok               | Named in honor of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880–1921), outstanding Russian poet. (M 13172)	 | 
| 2551 | Decabrina          | Named in memory of the revolutionary group of noblemen that led the uprising against tsarist autocra | 
| 2561 | Margolin           | Named in memory of Mikhail Vladimirovich Margolin (1906–1975), blind designer and inventor, a man of | 
| 2564 | Kayala             | Named for the river in The Song of Igor’s Campaign on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the o | 
| 2574 | Ladoga             | Named for the largest lake in Europe, situated near St. Petersburg. (M 8912)	 | 
| 2576 | Yesenin            | Named in memory of the lyric poet Sergej Alexan-drovich Yesenin (1895–1925). (M 7619)	 | 
| 2585 | Irpedina           | Named in honor of the Irkutsk {see planet  (3224)} Pedagogical Institute. The name is dedicated to f | 
| 2604 | Marshak            | Named in memory of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (1887–1964), famous Soviet poet, writer of classic chi | 
| 2610 | Tuva               | Named for the {former} Tuvinian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. (M 7473)	 | 
| 2616 | Lesya              | Named for Lesya Ukrainka, the pen name of Larisa Petrovna Kosach (1871–1913), an outstanding Ukraini | 
| 2626 | Belnika            | Named in honor of Nikolaj Alekseevich Belyaev, a celestial mechanician at the Institute for Theoreti | 
| 2646 | Abetti             | Named in memory of Antonio Abetti (1846–1928) and of his son Giorgio Abetti (1882–1982), who each se | 
| 2656 | Evenkia            | Named for the Evenkian National Area of the {former} R.S.F.S.R. (M 7473)	 | 
| 2670 | Chuvashia          | Named for the {former} Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. (M 7473)	 | 
| 2697 | Albina             | Named in honor of Albina Alekseevna Serova, Moscow astronomer, friend of the discoverer. (M 11156)	 | 
| 2699 | Kalinin            | Named in memory of Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (1875–1946), Soviet statesman. (M 8065)	 | 
| 2701 | Cherson            | Named for a town in the Ukraine, center of the Chersonian region, which borders with the Crimea. (M  | 
| 2703 | Rodari             | Named in memory of Gianni Rodari (1920–1980), Italian writer of children’s books. (M 9768)	 | 
| 2722 | Abalakin           | Named in honor of Viktor Kuz’mich Abalakin {1930-#x007D;, leader of the ephemeris group at the Insti | 
| 2724 | Orlov              | Named in memory of Sergej Vladimirovich Orlov (1880–1958), professor at Moscow University who contri | 
| 2727 | Paton              | Named in memory of Evgenij Oskarovich Paton (1870–1953), Soviet scientist known for bridge building  | 
| 2728 | Yatskiv            | Named in honor of Yaroslav Stepanovich Yatskiv {1940– }, Soviet astrometrist and geodynamicist, dire | 
| 2740 | Tsoj               | Named in memory of Victor Robertovich Tsoj (1962–1990), poet, composer and soloist of the rock-group | 
| 2746 | Hissao             | Named for the Hissar (Gissar) Astronomical Observatory, part of the Institute of Astrophysics of the | 
| 2754 | Efimov             | Named in memory of the aviator Mikhail Nikiforovich Efimov (1881–1919), who was the first to realize | 
| 2768 | Gorky              | Named for Maxim Gorky, pen name of Aleksei Makhsimovich Peshkov (1868–1936), outstanding Russian wri | 
| 2770 | Tsvet              | Named in memory of Mikhail Semenovich Tsvet (1872–1919), physiologist and plant biochemist, the foun | 
| 2785 | Sedov              | Named in memory of Georgij Yakovlevich Sedov (1877–1914), celebrated Russian Arctic explorer who per | 
| 2786 | Grinevia           | Named in memory of the Soviet writer-romanticist Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevskij (1880–1932). (M 85 | 
| 2787 | Tovarishch         | Named for the Soviet training ship that has participated in many international sailing regattas and  | 
| 2793 | Valdaj             | Named for the Valdaj Hills, near Moscow, well known in Russian history. The discoverer als dedicates | 
| 2794 | Kulik              | Named in memory of Leonid Alekseevich Kulik (1883–1942), Soviet mineralogist, researcher of meteorit | 
| 2836 | Sobolev            | Named in honor of Academician Viktor Viktorovich Sobolev {1915–1998}, professor at Leningrad Univers | 
| 2859 | Paganini           | Named for the great Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini (1782–1840). (M 11157)	 | 
| 2867 | Steins             | Named in memory of Karlis Augustovich šteins (1911–1983), director of the Latvian University’s Astro | 
| 2869 | Nepryadva          | Named to commemorate the Russian victory over the Tatar-Mongolians in the battle at Kulikovo near th | 
| 2890 | Vilyujsk           | Named for the central town of the Vilyujsk district of the {former} Yakut Autonomous SSR on the occa | 
| 2894 | Kakhovka           | Named for a town of the {former} Chersonian district of the Ukrainian SSR. (M 8913)	 | 
| 2915 | Moskvina           | Named in honor of Valentina Nikolaevna Moskvina, a doctor at the Bakchisaraj regional hospital in th | 
| 2922 | Dikan'ka           | Named for the Ukrainian village mentioned in Gogol’s {see planet  (2361)} novel Evenings at the farm | 
| 2951 | Perepadin          | Named in honor of Aleksandr Ivanovich Perepadin, friend of the discoverer, learned agronomist, good  | 
| 2966 | Korsunia           | Named for the ancient Crimean town of Chersonesus, known in medieval Russia as Korsun’. (M 12969)	 | 
| 2983 | Poltava            | Named for the city in the {former} Ukrainian S.S.R. (M 11158)	 | 
| 2995 | Taratuta           | Named in honor of Evgeniya Aleksandrovna Taratuta, Soviet writer and literary scholar. (M 11158)	 | 
| 3006 | Livadia            | Named for a suburb of the Crimean city of Yalta {see planet  (1475)}. (M 9769)	 | 
| 3038 | Bernes             | Named in memory of Mark Naumovich Bernes (1911–1969), popular Soviet film actor and singer. (M 12970 | 
| 3039 | Yangel             | Named in memory of Mikhail Kuz’mich Yangel’ (1911–1971), Soviet designer of space-rocket systems. (M | 
| 3049 | Kuzbass            | Named for the Kuznetskij coal basin, one of the richest coal deposits in the U.S.S.R. and the world. | 
| 3052 | Herzen             | Named in memory of Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (1812–1870), revolutionary, writer and philosopher, fo | 
| 3068 | Khanina            | Named in honor of Frida Borisovna Khanina, specialist on orbit computations, a staff member of the I | 
| 3074 | Popov              | Named in memory of Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov (1859–1906), the inventor of radio in Russia. (M 1317 | 
| 3082 | Dzhalil            | Named in memory of Musa Mustafovich Dzhalil’ (1906–1944), outstanding Tatar Soviet poet, author of l | 
| 3108 | Lyubov             | Named in memory of Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (1902–1975), outstanding Soviet actress. (M 13174)	 | 
| 3112 | Velimir            | Named for Velimir (Viktor Vladimirovich) Khlebnikov (1885–1922), Russian poet known for his experime | 
| 3120 | Dangrania          | Named in honor of Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin, Soviet writer whose work is mainly about scientists  | 
| 3127 | Bagration          | Named in memory of Petr Ivanovich Bagration (1765–1812), Russian general, hero of the war of 1812. ( | 
| 3146 | Dato               | Named in memory of Dato Kratsashvili (1963–1980), gifted Georgian painter. (M 13174)	 | 
| 3148 | Grechko            | Named in honor of Georgij Mikhajlovich Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut and scientist who made three space  | 
| 3158 | Anga               | Named for a Siberian village, birthplace of the Russian ethnographers Ivan Evseevich Venyaminov (179 | 
| 3189 | Penza              | Named for a Russian city, the center of the region where Lermontov, Belinskij, Davydov, Kuprin {see  | 
| 3191 | Svanetia           | Named for Svanetia, a historical region in Georgia near the Caucasus Mountains. (M 12971)	 | 
| 3196 | Maklaj             | Named in honor of Nikolaj Nikolaevich MiklukhoMaklaj (1846–1888), a prominent Russian anthropologist | 
| 3215 | Lapko              | Named in honor of Konstantin Kuz’mich Lapko, assistant professor at the Crimean medical institute, a | 
| 3231 | Mila               | Named in memory of the Soviet ice dancer Ludmila Alekseevna Pakhomova (1946–1986). (M 13175)	 | 
| 3233 | Krisbarons         | Named for Krišjanis Barons (1835–1923), prominent Latvian folklorist, writer and public figure. He c | 
| 3234 | Hergiani           | Named in memory of Mikhail Vissarionovich Hergiani (1932–1969), outstanding Soviet mountaineer. (M 1 | 
| 3238 | Timresovia         | Named in honor of Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskij (1900–1981), famous Soviet biologist, one | 
| 3260 | Vizbor             | Named in memory of Yurij Iosifovich Vizbor (1934–1984), well-known journalist, poet, actor, producer | 
| 3273 | Drukar             | Named for Ivan Fedorov (ca. 1510–1583), the first printer of books in Russia and the Ukraine. In old | 
| 3283 | Skorina            | Named in honor of Francis Skorina, who lived from before 1490 to not later than 1551, and who pionee | 
| 3286 | Anatoliya          | Named in memory of Anatolij Vasilevich Karachkin (1947–1984), brother of the discoverer’s husband, a | 
| 3298 | Massandra          | Named for a suburb of Yalta {see planet  (1475)}, a beautiful site noted for its production of the f | 
| 3302 | Schliemann         | Named in memory of Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), famous German archaeologist, who undertook, at h | 
| 3306 | Byron              | Named for the great English poet Lord George Noel Gordon Byron (1788–1824). (M 12972)	 | 
| 3311 | Podobed            | Named in honor of Vladimir Vladimirovich Podobed {1918–1992}, professor at the Sternberg Astronomica | 
| 3321 | Dasha              | Named in honor of Dar’ya Lavrent’evna Mikhailova, the first Russian army sister of charity during th | 
| 3322 | Lidiya             | Named in honor of Lidiya Vissarionovna Zvereva (1890–1916), the first Russian female pilot. She bega | 
| 3347 | Konstantin         | Named in memory of Konstantin Alekseevich Kalinin (1889–1938), a remarkable flier and talented aircr | 
| 3359 | Purcari            | Named for the producer of the best Moldavian wines. (M 18136)	 | 
| 3372 | Bratijchuk         | Named in honor of Matrena Vasil’evna Bratijchuk, professor of astronomy and founder and head of the  | 
| 3373 | Koktebelia         | Named for the Crimean settlement of Koktebel’, home and workplace of the brilliant Russian poet, pai | 
| 3384 | Daliya             | Named for Vladimir Ivanovich Dal’ (1801–1872), outstanding lexicologist, ethnographer and writer, co | 
| 3385 | Bronnina           | Named in honor of Nina Mikhailovna Bronnikova, astronomer at the Pulkovo Observatory. One of the mai | 
| 3399 | Kobzon             | Named in honor of Iosif Davidovich Kobzon, well-known singer in the former Soviet Union. (M 22829)	 | 
| 3437 | Kapitsa            | Named in memory of the celebrated physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894–1984), recipient of the  | 
| 3441 | Pochaina           | Named for the small river in the old town of Kiev. According to some historians, the inhabitants of  | 
| 3442 | Yashin             | Named in memory of Lev Ivanpvich Yashin (1929–1990), football goalkeeper and trainer. (M 20835)	 | 
| 3444 | Stepanian          | Named in honor of husband-and-wife staff members at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory for more t | 
| 3466 | Ritina             | Named in honor of discoverer’s daughter Margarita, an astronomer at the Crimean Astrophysical Observ | 
| 3470 | Yaronika           | Named in honor of the discoverer’s son Yaroslav, who works in electronics at the Crimean Astrophysic | 
| 3471 | Amelin             | Named in memory of Valentin Mikhajlovich Amelin (1930–1989), an authority on geodesy who lectured on | 
| 3482 | Lesnaya            | Named in honor of the village in the Mogilev district (Belorussia) near which the Russian army under | 
| 3501 | Olegiya            | Named in honor of Oleg Nikolaevich Korottsev (1922– ), a member of the Astronomical-Geodetical Socie | 
| 3516 | Rusheva            | Named in memory of Nadya Rusheva (1952–1969), a talented painter who died in her youth. (M 12017)	 | 
| 3518 | Florena            | Named in memory of Pavel Aleksandrovich Florenskij (1882–1943), well-known Russian religious philoso | 
| 3523 | Arina              | Named for Arina Rodionova Yakovleva (1758–1828), the nurse of A. S. Pushkin {see planet  (2208)}. (M | 
| 3566 | Levitan            | Named in memory of Isaac Il’ich Levitan (1860–1900), a famous Russian landscape painter. (M 24120)	 | 
| 3575 | Anyuta             | Named in honor of the outstanding sportswoman and pioneer Soviet parachutist Anna Aleksandrovna Shis | 
| 3576 | Galina             | Named in honor of Galina Bogdanova Pyasetskaya, who with Anna Shishmareva {see planet  (3575)} accom | 
| 3599 | Basov              | Named in honor of the contemporary physicist Nikolaj Gennadievich Basov {1922– }, Nobel Prize Laurea | 
| 3608 | Kataev             | Named in memory of the writer Valentin Petrovich Kataev (1897–1986). (M 13608)	 | 
| 3618 | Kuprin             | Named in honor of Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870–1938), famous Russian writer. (M 20836)	 | 
| 3622 | Ilinsky            | Named in memory of the actor Igor’ Vladimirovich Il’insky (1901–1987). (M 13176)	 | 
| 3632 | Grachevka          | Named for a village in the Tambov (now Lipetsk) region in Russia, the birthplace of the discoverer’s | 
| 3660 | Lazarev            | Named in honor of the Russian admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (1797–1851), a participant in the fi | 
| 3668 | Ilfpetrov          | Named for Il’ya Arnol’dovich Feinsilberg (1897–1937) and Eugeny Petrovich Kataev (1903–1942), the au | 
| 3669 | Vertinskij         | Named in memory of Aleksandr Nikolaevich Vertinskij (1889–1957), variety actor, composer and poet, f | 
| 3675 | Kemstach           | Named in memory of Marfa Vladimirovna Kemstach (1888–1971) and Semen Stepanovich Kemstach (1880–1938 | 
| 3724 | Annenskij          | Named for Innokentij Fedorovich Annenskij (1855–1909), well-known Russian poet and writer. (M 22246; | 
| 3739 | Rem                | Named in memory of Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (1926–1977), Soviet physicist and one of the founders of | 
| 3762 | Amaravella         | Named for a group of Russian painters, known for the cosmic themes of their work. (M 20836)	 | 
| 3770 | Nizami             | Named in memory of the distinguished Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ghiandjevi Abu Mukhammed Il | 
| 3772 | Piaf               | Named in memory of the great French singer Edith Piaf (1915–1963). (M 17028)	 | 
| 3804 | Drunina            | Named in honor of the Soviet poetess Yuliya Vladimirovna Drunina. (M 18454)	 | 
| 3813 | Fortov             | Named in honor of Russian academician Vladimir Evgen’evich Fortov (1946– ), well-known for his work  | 
| 3818 | Gorlitsa           | Named in honor of Mariya Avksent’evna Rudenko, village schoolmistress in the Ukrainian region of Mog | 
| 3836 | Lem                | Named in honor of Stanislaw Lem (1921– ), famous Polish writer and founder of the Polish Astronautic | 
| 3856 | Lutskij            | Named in honor of Valerij Konstantinovich Lutskij, Moscow astronomer and scientific commentator on a | 
| 3862 | Agekian            | Named in honor of Tateos Artemjevich Agekian, professor at the St. Petersburg University. Agekian is | 
| 3884 | Alferov            | Named in honor of the outstanding physicist and academician Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1930– ), direc | 
| 3890 | Bunin              | Named in memory of an outstanding Russian writer and 1933 Nobel laureate Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (187 | 
| 3940 | Larion             | Named for Larisa Ivanovna Golubkina, dramatic actress, brilliant performer of romances. (M 22500)	 | 
| 3946 | Shor               | Named in honor of Viktor Abramovich Shor {1929–}, member of the staff of the Institute for Theoretic | 
| 3967 | Shekhtelia         | Named in memory of Fyodor Osipovich Shekhtel’ (1859–1926), a famous Russian architect and a bright r | 
| 3969 | Rossi              | Named in memory of the outstanding architect Karl Ivanovich Rossi (1775–1849), designer of splendid  | 
| 3982 | Kastel'            | Named in honor of Galina Richardovna Kastel’, well-known expert on the study of the motions of minor | 
| 4006 | Sandler            | Named in memory of Grigorij Moiseevich Sandler (1912–1994), an outstanding Russian musician who made | 
| 4013 | Ogiria             | Named in memory of Maiya Borisovna Ogir’ (1933–1991), solar physicist and staff member of the Crimea | 
| 4017 | Disneya            | Named in memory of Walt Disney (1901–1966), the outstanding American movie producer and master of an | 
| 4022 | Nonna              | Named in honor of Nonna (Noyabrina) Viktorovna Mordyukova, a popular Soviet cinema actress. (M 18645 | 
| 4032 | Chaplygin          | Named in memory of Sergej Alexeevich Chaplygin (1869–1942), a notable expert in theoretical mechanic | 
| 4067 | Mikhel'son         | Named in honor of Nikolaj Nikolaevich Mikhel’son (1918– ), outstanding Soviet scientist known for hi | 
| 4109 | Anokhin | Named in memory of Sergej Nikolaevich Anokhin (1910-1986), test pilot and sportsman.  During one of  | 
| 4118 | Sveta              | Named for Svetlana Evgen’evna Savitskaya (1948– ), 1970 world aerobatics champion, the second woman  | 
| 4136 | Artmane | Named in honor of Vija Artmane, famous Latvian actress who appeared in more than 60 movies.  Rodn | 
| 4139 | Ul'yanin | Named in memory of Sergej Alekseevich Ul'yanin (1871-1921), Russian pilot and talented inventor, who | 
| 4167 | Riemann            | Named in memory of Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866), German mathematical genius. (M 2412 | 
| 4174 | Pikulia            | Named in memory of the famous Soviet writer Valentin Savvich Pikul’ (1928–1990), author of many nove | 
| 4189 | Sayany             | Named for the mountain chain in the southern part of Siberia {see planet  (1094)}. (M 23351)	 | 
| 4195 | Esambaev           | Named in honor of Makhmud Alisultanovich Esambaev (1924– ), well-known Soviet ballet dancer, an outs | 
| 4236 | Lidov              | Named in honor of Mikhail L’vovich Lidov {1926–1993}, celestial mechanician at the Keldysh Institute | 
| 4267 | Basner             | Named in memory of Veniamin Efimovich Basner (1925–1996), outstanding Russian composer, author of op | 
| 4308 | Magarach           | Named for the Research Institute of wine-making and viticulture at Magarach, near Yalta {see planet  | 
| 4311 | Zguridi            | Named in memory of Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Zguridi (1904–1998), producer of popular scientific films  | 
| 4315 | Pronik             | Named in honor of Vladimir Ivanovich Pronik (1932– ) and Iraida Ivanovna Pronik, husband and wife, a | 
| 4363 | Sergej             | Named in honor of Sergej Vasil&rsevich Ezhov (1953– ), since 1978 a talented surgeon in the district | 
| 4366 | Venikagan          | Named in memory of the outstanding Soviet mathematician Veniamin Fyodorovich Kagan (1869–1953). (M 2 | 
| 4389 | Durbin             | Named in honor of Deanna Durbin (1921– ), talented Canadian-born American cinema actress, who played | 
| 4391 | Balodis            | Named in honor of Janis Balodis, chief of the cosmic geodesy department at the Astronomical Observat | 
| 4392 | Agita              | Named in honor of Agita Tarasova, a scientific worker at the Astronomical Observatory of the Latvian | 
| 4426 | Roerich            | Named in honor of the family of outstanding Russian figures of culture whose lives were closely conn | 
| 4428 | Khotinok           | Named in honor of Roman L’vovich Khotinok, meteorite researcher in the Meteorite Committee of the Ru | 
| 4465 | Rodita | Named in memory of the Soviet art critic Tat'yana Mikhajlovna Rodina (1914-1989).  She was the autho | 
| 4472 | Navashin           | Named in honor of Mikhail Sergeevich Navashin (1896–1973), prominent Soviet cytologist, who was one  | 
| 4483 | Petofi             | Named in memory of Shandor Petöfi (1823–1849), outstanding Hungarian poet and public figure. (M 2224 | 
| 4513 | Louvre             | Named in honor of the stately architectural ensemble in Paris, the former residence of French kings, | 
| 4514 | Vilen              | Named in honor of Vilen Valentinovich Nesterov (1935– ), head of the Astrometry Department of the St | 
| 4537 | Valgrirasp         | Named in honor of the Soviet writer Valentin Grigorjevich Rasputin. (M 22502)	 | 
| 4592 | Alkissia           | Named in honor of Aleksej Alekseevich Kisselev (1927– ), astronomer at the Pulkovo Astronomical Obse | 
| 4654 | Gor'kavyj          | Named in honor of Nikolaj Nikolaevich Gor’kavyj (1959– ), staff member of the Crimean Astrophysical  | 
| 4655 | Marjoriika         | Named in honor of Marjo Riika Kuusela (1964– ), specialist in Russian literature, whose perfect know | 
| 4657 | Lopez              | Named in honor of Alvaro Lopez Garcia (1941– ), professor of astronomy at Valencia University, direc | 
| 4682 | Bykov              | Named in memory of Leonid Fyodorovich Bykov (1928–1979), talented Ukrainian cinematic actor and prod | 
| 4683 | Veratar            | Named in honor of Vera Petrovna Tarashchuk, an astrophysicist at the Astronomical Observatory of Kie | 
| 4686 | Maisica            | Named in honor of Maria Luisa Grima Garcia, a charming Spanish woman who is the soul of her family,  | 
| 4737 | Kiladze            | Named in honor of Rolan Il’ich Kiladze (1931– ), astronomer at the Abastumani Observatory. His resea | 
| 4740 | Veniamina          | Named in memory of Veniamin Vasil’evich Somov (1945–1991), the discoverer’s brother. (M 22503)	 | 
| 4778 | Fuss               | Named in honor of the mathematicians Nikolaj Ivanovich Fuss (1755–1825) and his son Pavel Nikolaevic | 
| 4780 | Polina             | Named in honor of Polina Evgen’evna Zakharova, stellar astronomer and director of the Kourovka Astro | 
| 4786 | Tatianina          | Named in honor of Tatiana Aleksandrovna Somova, friend of the discoverer, nursery-school teacher in  | 
| 4813 | Terebizh           | Named in honor of Valerij Yuzefovich Terebizh (1941– ), theoretical astrophysicist and observer at t | 
| 4814 | Casacci            | Named in honor of Claudio Casacci (1958– ), an Italian amateur astronomer who has been deeply involv | 
| 4870 | Shcherban'         | Named in honor of Vladimir Onufrievich Shcherban’ (1938– ), who was director of an oil-extraction pl | 
| 4879 | Zykina             | Named in honor of Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina, a Russian singer who enjoys widespread popularity. She | 
| 4882 | Divari             | Named in memory of Nikolaj Borisovich Divari (1921–1993), professor at the Odessa Polytechnical Inst | 
| 4883 | Korolirina         | Named in honor of Irina Leonidovna Korol’, a friend of the discoverer and teacher of philology in St | 
| 4884 | Bragaria | Named in honor of Luka Fedorovich Bragar' (b. 1938), a senior lecturer on the staff of Tiraspol Peda | 
| 4917 | Yurilvovia         | Named in memory of Yurij Alekseevich L’vov (1932–1994), deputy director of the Institute of Biology  | 
| 4928 | Vermeer            | Named in memory of the famous Dutch painter Vermeer van Delft (1632–1675). (M 22504)	 | 
| 4964 | Kourovka           | Named for the astronomical observatory of the Ural State University, situated near the village of Ko | 
| 4982 | Bartini            | Named in memory of Robert Lyudvigovich Bartini (1897–1974), Italian baron by birth who lived and wor | 
| 4992 | Kalman             | Named in memory of the Hungarian composer Imre Kálmán (1882–1953). (M 24765)	 | 
| 4997 | Ksana              | Named in honor of Kseniya Andreevna Nessler, chemist by profession and fighter against environmental | 
| 5015 | Litke | Named for Fedor Petrovich Litke (1797-1882), Russian navigator and geographer, investigator of the A | 
| 5016 | Migirenko          | Named in honor of Georgij Sergeevich Migirenko (1916– ), academician and professor at the Siberian D | 
| 5021 | Krylania           | Named in honor of Anna Alexeevna Kapitsa (1903– ), the daughter of Alexei Nikolaevich Krylov. She wa | 
| 5044 | Shestaka           | Named in memory of Ivan Sofronovich Shestaka (1937–1994), senior scientist and head of the Comet and | 
| 5083 | Irinara            | Named in honor of Irina Evgen’evna Raksha, well-known writer in Moscow and a friend of the discovere | 
| 5084 | Gnedin             | Named in honor of Yurij Nikolaevich Gnedin (1935– ), well-known Russian astrophysicist, deputy direc | 
| 5085 | Hippocrene         | Named for the ancient Greek mythological spring of inspiration. The name is given in connection with | 
| 5086 | Demin              | Named in memory of Vladimir Grigor’evich Demin (1929–1996), well-known expert on celestial mechanics | 
| 5093 | Svirelia           | Named for Elsa Gustavovna Sviridova, the wife of Georgij Vasil’evich Sviridov {see planet  (4075)}.  | 
| 5096 | Luzin              | Named in memory of the mathematician Nikolaj Nikolaevich Luzin (1883–1950), professor at Moscow Univ | 
| 5156 | Golant | Named in honor of academician Victor Evgen'evich Golant (b. 1928), director of the department of pla | 
| 5218 | Kutsak | Mariya Romanovna Kutsak (1928-1997) was a schoolteacher of physics and astronomy in the city of Omsk | 
| 5219 | Zemka | Named in honor of Aleksandr Grigorjevich Zemka (b. 1947), friend of the discoverer, electrotechnics  | 
| 5220 | Vika               | Named in honor of Victoriya Semenovna Vinogradova (1928– ), doctor at the Crimean Astrophysical Obse | 
| 5222 | Ioffe              | Named in memory of Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (1880–1960), one of the originators of the Soviet physics  | 
| 5300 | Sats               | Named in memory of Nataliya Il’inichna Sats (1903–1993). An outstanding figure in Soviet theatre cul | 
| 5303 | Parijskij          | Named in honor of Yurij Nikolaevich Parijskij (1932– ), radio astronomer and cosmologist. He was pri | 
| 5314 | Wilkickia          | Named in memory of Andrej Ippolitovich Wilkitzky (Wilkicki; 1858–1913) and his son Boris Andreevich  | 
| 5315 | Bal'mont           | Named in memory of Konstantin Dmitrievich Bal’mont (1867–1942), a Russian poet who lived in exile af | 
| 5385 | Kamenka | Kamenka, a small town in the Cherkassian region of Ukraine, is connected with many great persons of  | 
| 5411 | Liia               | Named in honor of Liia Forrer-Tsiganovskaja, wife of a friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of  | 
| 5412 | Rou                | Named in memory of Aleksandr Arturovich Rou (1906–1973), an actor and film producer specializing in  | 
| 5415 | Lyanzuridi | Named in honor of Konstantin Petrovich Lyanzuridi (b. 1934), engineer in vacuum technology and optic | 
| 5419 | Benua              | Named in memory of the Russian architect Nikolaj Leont’evich Benua (Benois; 1813–1898), as well as o | 
| 5422 | Hodgkin            | Named for the famous English chemist and biochemist Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, 1964 Nobel prize-winne | 
| 5456 | Merman             | Named in honor of Grigorij (Hirsh) Aronovich Merman (1921– ), staff member of the Institute of Theor | 
| 5458 | Aizman             | Named in honor of Mikhael Iosifovich Aizman (1947– ), telecommunications specialist and president of | 
| 5543 | Sharaf             | Named in honor of Shafika Gil’mievna Sharaf (1915– ), well known expert on celestial mechanics and s | 
| 5570 | Kirsan             | Named in honor of Kirsan Nikolaevich Ilyumzhinov (1962– ), chess grandmaster and president of the In | 
| 5717 | Damir              | Named in memory of Alim Matveevich Damir (1894–1982), well-known physician, professor at the First a | 
| 5794 | Irmina             | Named in memory of Irma Mikhailovna Golodyaev-skaya (1931–1956), a student of the Moscow Conservator | 
| 5795 | Roshchina          | Named in memory of Elena Olegovna Roshchina (1966–1994), a journalist and cinema critic from the Iva | 
| 5807 | Mshatka            | Named for the country estate of Nikolaj Yakovlevich Danilevskij (1822–1885), thinker, philosopher, s | 
| 5808 | Babel'             | Named in honor of the outstanding Russian writer and dramatist Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel’ (1894–1940 | 
| 5857 | Neglinka           | Named for a small river that flows into the Moskva river. On Borovitskij {see planet  (5858)} hill,  | 
| 5859 | Ostozhenka         | Named for one of the oldest streets in the center of Moscow. Ostozhenka, derived from the Russian wo | 
| 5887 | Yauza              | Named for one of Moscow’s little rivers. Between the place where it flows into Moscow river and the  | 
| 5902 | Talima             | Named for Tatiana Alimovna Damir (1923– ), friend of the discoverer, daughter of Alim Matveevich Dam | 
| 5944 | Utesov             | Named in memory of Leonid Osipovich Utesov (1895–1982), famous Russian singer, musician, actor, foun | 
| 5989 | Sorin              | Named in memory of Sergej Ivanovich Sorin (1916–1995), astronomer and teacher who participated in th | 
| 6032 | Nobel              | Named in memory of Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish inventor of dynamite. He was founder o | 
| 6108 | Glebov | Named in honor of academician Igor' Alekseevich Glebov (b. 1914), outstanding scientist in the field | 
| 6110 | Kazak | Yurij Ivanovich Kazak (b. 1949), surgeon at Bakhchisaraj district hospital, treated many staff membe | 
| 6113 | Tsap | Teodor Teodorovich Tsap (b. 1930) and his son Yurij Teodorovich Tsap (b. 1966) are astronomers at th | 
| 6121 | Plachinda | At the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Sergej Ivanovich Plachinda (b. 1951) has contributed to in | 
| 6219 | Demalia            | Named in memory of Aleksandra Alekseevna Demenko (1930–1983), Ukrainian astronomer, staff member of  | 
| 6262 | Javid              | Named in memory of Hussein Javid (1882–1941), Azerbaijani poet, playwright and historian, author of  | 
| 6278 | Ametkhan | The Crimea's famous inhabitant Sultan Amet-khan (1920-1971) was an honored test pilot of the former  | 
| 6356 | Tairov             | Named in honor of Vasilij Egorovich Tairov (1859–1938), Russian viticulturist and oenologist, author | 
| 6357 | Glushko            | Named in memory of Valentin Petrovich Glushko (1908–1989), Soviet pioneer in liquid-fuel rocket-engi | 
| 6358 | Chertok            | Named in honor of Boris Evseevich Chertok (1912– ), an authority on automation and control systems f | 
| 6359 | Dubinin | Named in honor of Yurij Vladimirovich Dubinin (b. 1930), Russian diplomat, scientist, author and tra | 
| 6467 | Prilepina          | Named in honor of Svetlana Semenovna Prilepina, a graduate of the Astronomical Department at the Ura | 
| 6574 | Gvishiani | Named in honor of Jermen Mikhailovich Gvishiani (b. 1928), known for his many works in philosophy, s | 
| 6591 | Sabinin | Dmitry Anatolievich Sabinin (1889-1951), a professor at Moscow State University, was an outstanding  | 
| 6619 | Kolya | Nikolaj Stepanovich Chernykh (1931-2004) was chief, beginning in 1965, of the CrAO-ITA group of obse | 
| 6621 | Timchuk | Named in honor of neuropathologist Evdokiya Ivanovna Timchuk (b. 1937), a physician at a hospital ne | 
| 6679 | Gurzhij | Andrej Nikolaevich Gurzhij (b. 1946) is a well-known Ukrainian specialist on the technique of inform | 
| 6682 | Makarij            | Named in memory of Metropolitan Makarij (1482–1563), who had great influence on education, the churc | 
| 6685 | Boitsov | Named in memory of Vasilij Vasil'evich Boitsov (Bojtsov, 1908-1997), specialist on the technology of | 
| 6719 | Gallaj             | Named in honor of Mark Lazarevich Gallaj (1914– ), a distinguished Soviet test pilot who tested 125  | 
| 6763 | Kochiny            | Named for Nikolaj Evgrafovich Kochin (1901–1944) and his wife Pelageya Yakovlevna Kochina (1899– ),  | 
| 6766 | Kharms             | Named in honor of the outstanding Russian poet, writer and dramatist Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev (1905 | 
| 6767 | Shirvindt          | Named in honor of the remarkable actor, People’s Artist of Russia and professor at the Shchukin Thea | 
| 6844 | Shpak | Named in honor of Vladimir Stepanovich Shpak (b. 1909), distinguished technical organic chemist and  | 
| 6890 | Savinykh | Victor Petrovich Savinykh (b. 1940), a first-class pilot-cosmonaut, was on board the Salyut 6, Salyu | 
| 6955 | Ekaterina          | Named in honor of the empress Ekaterina Vtoraya (Catherine II; Catherine the Great; 1729–1796), whos | 
| 7002 | Bronshten | Vitalij Aleksandrovich Bronshten (b. 1918) is a Moscow astronomer and specialist in physics and cosm | 
| 7073 | Rudbelia | Ol'ga Ivanovna Belyaeva (née Rudneva) is a teacher of English at the Moscow College and Institute of | 
| 7074 | Muckea | Hermann Mucke (b. 1935), director of the Urania Sternwarte and planetarium in Vienna, is well known  | 
| 7216 | Ishkov | Vitalij Nikitich Ishkov, astrophysicist at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Ra | 
| 7222 | Alikperov | Vagit Yusupovich Alikperov (b. 1950) is known for his development of economical foundations and orga | 
| 7224 | Vesnina            | Named in memory of the brothers Leonid Alek-sandrovich Vesnin (1880–1933), Viktor Aleksandrovich Ves | 
| 7318 | Dyukov | Vitalij Petrovich Dyukov (b. 1945), a professor at the Siberian State Geodesy Academy in Novosibirsk | 
| 7319 | Katterfeld         | Named in honor of Gennadij Nikolaevich Katterfeld (1927– ), geologist and planetologist in St. Peter | 
| 7320 | Potter | Pulkovo astronomer Kheino Potter (b. 1929) is known for his work on the determination of astronomica | 
| 7322 | Lavrentina | Soviet mathematician Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrent'ev (1900-1980) was the first head of the Siberian D | 
| 7323 | Robersomma | Roberto Somma (b. 1944), an Italian space engineer at Alenia Spazio, has promoted ideas and organize | 
| 7373 | Stashis | Vladimir Vladimirovich Stashis (b. 1925) is a Ukrainian scholar of jurisprudence, vice-rector of the | 
| 7555 | Venvolkov | Veniamin Vasil'evich Volkov (b. 1921), world-renowned ophthalmologist, made significant contribution | 
| 7629 | Foros              | Named for the health resort on the south coast of the Crimea. (M 34626)	 | 
| 7632 | Stanislav          | Named in memory of the Ukrainian writer, poet, literary scholar and public figure Stanislav Volodymy | 
| 7633 | Volodymyr          | Named in honor of the vice president of the Ukrainian Astronomical Association and director of the K | 
| 7869 | Pradun | Valentin Panteleevich Pradun (b. 1956) is a Ukrainian economist and professor at Tavrichesky Nationa | 
| 7910 | Aleksola | Aleksandr Anatolievich Solov'ev is a theoretical astrophysicist and solar physicist and a professor  | 
| 7912 | Lapovok | Yakov Semenovich Lapovok (b. 1932) is a radio engineer and inventor, scientific secretary of the A.  | 
| 7976 | Pinigin | Gennadij Ivanovich Pinigin (b. 1943) is the director of the Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory. A pro | 
| 8064 | Lisitsa | Physicist Mikhail Pavlovich Lisitsa (b. 1921) is a professor at Kiev University and department head  | 
| 8065 | Nakhodkin | Nikolaj Grigorievich Nakhodkin (b. 1925), a faculty head at Kiev University, works in the areas of p | 
| 8134 | Minin | Kuz'ma Minich Zakhar'ev Sukhorukij (Kuz'ma Minin, d. 1616) was one of the organizers of the second p | 
| 8145 | Valujki | The small Russian town of Valujki, founded in 1593 as a southern fortress of the Moscow State, is th | 
| 8150 | Kaluga | Kaluga, a town in the Russian Federation and the focus of the Kalugian region, is a prominent indust | 
| 8151 | Andranada | Andrej Vladimirovich Shakhov (b. 1954) works in the faculty of diseases of the ear, nose and throat  | 
| 8248 | Gurzuf | Gurzuf is small town near Yalta at the south coast of the Crimea, praised by A. S. Pushkin, who visi | 
| 8321 | Akim | Efraim Lazarevich Akim (b. 1929), deputy director at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, i | 
| 8446 | Tazieff | Garun Tazieff (Taziev; 1914-1998), Polish-born Belgian geologist, volcanologist and writer, was the  | 
| 8451 | Gaidai | Leonid Iovich Gaidai (1923-1993) was a prominent Soviet film producer and Peoples' Artist of the U.S | 
| 8471 | Obrant | The ballet-master, producer and teacher-humanist Arkadij Efimovich Obrant (1906-1974) organized and  | 
| 8498 | Ufa | The city of Ufa is a large industrial and cultural center in the south Urals.  Founded in 1574, it i | 
| 8608 | Chelomey | Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomey (1914-1984), an outstanding designer of space technology, created spac | 
| 8612 | Burov | Andrej Konstantinovich Burov (1900-1957) was a Russian architect and inventor who developed projects | 
| 8635 | Yuriosipov | Yurij Aleksandrovich Osipov (b. 1965) is a physician at the Bakhchisaraj regional hospital in the Cr | 
| 8781 | Yurka | Yuri Sergeevich Efimov (b. 1935) is an astrophysicist who has worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Ob | 
| 8782 | Bakhrakh | Lev Davidovich Bakhrakh (b. 1921), a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is the | 
| 8785 | Boltwood | Paul Boltwood (b. 1943) is a Canadian specialist in computer systems and outstanding amateur astrono | 
| 8805 | Petrpetrov | Petr Petrovich Petrov (b. 1945), a leading scientist at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, is wi | 
| 8816 | Gamow | Named in memory of the scientist George (Georgij Antonovich) Gamow (1904-1968).  His main scientific | 
| 8822 | Shuryanka          | Named in honor of Aleksandra Semenova Morozova (1917– ), mother of the discoverer. Shuryanka is a pe | 
| 8982 | Oreshek | Oreshek is an ancient Russian fortress built in 1323.  From 1612 to 1702 it was in the possession of | 
| 8985 | Tula | Tula is a city in Russian Federation, the administrative focus of the region and prominent industria | 
| 9034 | Oleyuria | Husband and wife piano duettists, Yurij Viktorovich Shcherbakov (b. 1957) and Ol'ga Konstantinovna S | 
| 9156 | Malanin            | Named in honor of Ivan Ivanovich Malanin (1897–1969), talented Russian accordionist, well known for  | 
| 9158 | Platè | Nikolaj Alfredovich Platè (b. 1934), chief scientific secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences a | 
| 9297 | Marchuk | Gurij Ivanovich Marchuk (b. 1925), director of the Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian | 
| 9514 | Deineka | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deineka (1899-1969) was a Russian painter known for his monumental works an | 
| 9516 | Inasan | The Institute of  Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, abbreviated as INASAN from its Russi | 
| 9549 | Akplatonov | Aleksandr Konstantinovich Platonov (b. 1931), a researcher in astrodynamics and robotics at the Keld | 
| 9567 | Surgut | Founded in 1593, Surgut is one of the main administrative and supply centers for the vast oil and na | 
| 9838 | Falz-Fein | Baron Eduard Aleksandrovich von Falz-Fein (b. 1912) is an outstanding collector of works of art and  | 
| 9848 | Yugra | Yugra is the historical name, used in Russia in medieval times, of the vast area to the east of the  | 
| 9915 | Potanin | Grigorij Nikolaevich Potanin (1835-1920) was a Russian geographer, ethnographer and publicist, an ex | 
| 10001 | Palermo | Palermo is the capital of Sicily.  It was at the Palermo Observatory, on the evening of 1801 Jan. 1, | 
| 10005 | Chernega | Nikolaj Akimovich Chernega (b. 1923) is a specialist in astrometry and the compilation of catalogues | 
| 10010 | Rudruna | RUDruNa, or Rossijskij Universitet Druzhby Narodov, is the Russian University of Friendship of Natio | 
| 10011 | Avidzba | Anatolij Mkanovich Avidzba (b. 1951), orchardist and viticulturist, is a member of the International | 
| 10014 | Shaim | Shaim is a town in the Tyumen province of the Russian Federation. In its environs the first oil fiel | 
| 10016 | Yugan | Yugan is the shortened name of Nefteyugansk, a town in western Siberia that is the center of the dri | 
| 10054 | Solomin | Yurij Mefodievich Solomin (b. 1935), People's artist of the U.S.S.R, is a Russian actor who is espec | 
| 10269 | Tusi | Nasir ad-Din at-Tusi Abu Djafar Mukhammed ibn Mukhammed (1201-1274) was an outstanding Azerbaijanian | 
| 10286 | Shnollia | Simon Elievich Shnoll (b. 1930) is a biophysicist and biochemist at Moscow University and at the Ins | 
| 10287 | Smale | American mathematician Stephen Smale (b. 1930) is a member of National Academy of Sciences.  He conc | 
| 10456 | Anechka | Daughter of a friend of the discoverer in the town of Cherkassy, Anya (Anechka) Ivanchenko (1987-199 | 
| 10481 | Esipov | Valentin Feodorovich Esipov (b. 1933) is head of the radioastronomy department at the Sternberg Astr | 
| 10504 | Doga | Russian composer Eugenij Dmitrievich Doga (b. 1937) has written music for many popular movies. | 
| 10681 | Khture | The Kharkiv Technical University of Radioelectronics, founded in 1930, is a recognized school of spe | 
| 10684 | Babkina | Nadezhda Georgievna Babkina (b. 1950) is a People's artist of Russia and the artistic director of th | 
| 10718 | Samus' | Nikolaj Nikolaevich Samus' (b. 1949) is a scientist in stellar astrophysics at the Institute of Astr | 
| 11011 | KIAM | KIAM is the English abbreviation for the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Aca | 
| 11253 | Mesyats | Russian physicist Gennadij Andreevich Mesyats (b. 1936) is known for his work on the physics of elec | 
| 11257 | Rodionta | Tatiana Vladimirovna Rodionova (b. 1964) is an engineer in Orenburg, wife of Igor' Victorovich Rodio | 
| 11269 | Knyr | Engineer Igor' Ivanovich Knyr (b. 1963) is a specialist on the introduction of new techniques in ind | 
| 11446 | Betankur | Avgustin Avgustinovich Betankur (1758-1824) was a civil engineer who built a gun foundry in Kazan, m | 
| 11785 | Migaic | Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (formerly Moscow Institute of Geodesy, Air-Photog | 
| 11787 | Baumanka | Bauman Moscow Technical University, founded in 1830, is a well-known higher education and research i | 
| 11788 | Nauchnyj | The birth of the settlement of Nauchnyj coincides with the construction of the Crimean Astrophysical | 
| 11790 | Goode | Philip R. Goode (b. 1943), a professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and director of Big | 
| 11824 | Alpaidze | Galaktion Eliseevich Alpaidze (1916-2006) was chief of the cosmodrome in Plesetsk from 1963 to 1975. | 
| 12189 | Dovgyj | Stanislav Alekseevich Dovgyj (b. 1954), a corresponding member of the Ukrainian National Academy of  | 
| 12199 | Sohlman | Michael Sohlman (b. 1944) is a well-known Swedish specialist in economics and finance, executive dir | 
| 12220 | Semenchur | Semen Ivanovich Churyumov (b. 1934), doctor of philosophy and socionics, was for many years senior l | 
| 12664 | Sonisenia | Sonya (Sofiya) and Senya (Semen) are charming and talented children of Mark Ziselevich Orlovskij, Ki | 
| 12670 | Passargea | Michael Paul Oskar Passarge (b. 1950) is a prominent German amateur astronomer. He built a private o | 
| 12674 | Rybalka | Anatolij Nikolaevich Rybalka (b. 1939) is an obstetrician and gynaecologist, professor at the Crimea | 
| 12686 | Bezuglyj | Michail Yur'evich Bezuglyj (b. 1963) is a Ukrainian surgeon who introduced mammography services in S | 
| 13046 | Aliev | Shamil' Gimbatovich Aliev (b. 1943) is a Russian specialist in the field of applied mathematics and  | 
| 13474 | V'yus | Yurij Sergeevich Vasil'ev (b. 1929), rector of St. Petersburg State Technical University, is a promi | 
| 13479 | Vet | The mathematician Vladimir Evgen'evich Tretyakov (“VET”, b. 1936) is a co-author of the Repin-Tretya | 
| 13906 | Shunda | Mathematician Nikifor Nikolaevich Shunda (b. 1932) has been a professor and since 1975 rector of Vin | 
| 13922 | Kremenia | Vasilij Grigorievich Kremen' (b. 1947), a member  of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and president | 
| 13923 | Peterhof | Peterhof, celebrating its 300th anniversary in 2005, was founded near St. Petersburg as a royal seas | 
| 14322 | Shakura | Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura (b. 1945) is the head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the S | 
| 14339 | Knorre | Ernest Khristov Knorre (1759-1810) was the first astronomer at Tartu University.  His son Karl Khris | 
| 14789 | GAISH | Moscow University's Sternberg Astronomical Institute (GAISh) is a leading astronomical institute in  | 
| 14814 | Gurij | Gurij Timofeevich Petrovsky (b. 1931), director of the Vavilov State Optical Institute and president | 
| 14815 | Rutberg | Filipp Grigor'evich Rutberg (b. 1931), a prominent expert in electrophysics, is director of the Inst | 
| 14818 | Mindeli | Elisbar Mindeli (1910-1980), a noted expert in coal mining, was the director of the Institute of Mou | 
| 15203 | Grishanin | Kirill Vladimirovich Grishanin (1909-2002), an eminent specialist in the field of hydrometeorology,  | 
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