Named in memory of Ivan Yakovlevich Franko (1856–1916), a Ukrainian writer and scientist whose remarkably rich creative legacy is now being published in 50 volumes. He was sometimes called Kamenyar, or’ stonecrusher’, the title of one of his poems. (M 7471) _ _.
Discovered on 11-9-1977 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.