Vladimir Grigor'evich Peshekhonov (b. 1934), director of the Central Scientific Research Institute “Electropribor”, St. Petersburg, is a prominent specialist in naval and space navigation. He has developed a number of high-precision inertial navigation systems for sea vessels and mobile gravimeters for use on the sea shelf.
Discovered on 31-8-1978 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.