Named in honor of Muslim Magometovich Magomaev (1942– ), famous Soviet singer, a soloist at the Azerbaijan Theatre of opera and ballet and later at the Bolshoj Theatre in Moscow. A remarkable performer of the songs of Russian and Azerbaijani composers and of arias in classical operas, he is also known as a songwriter and composer of movie scores. (M 26763) _ _.
Discovered on 19-9-1974 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, L. I.