Named in honor of Vladimir Petrovich Shcheglov {1904–1985}, since 1941 the director of the Astronomical Institute of the {former} Uzbek SSR in Tashkent, investigator in astrometry and the history of astronomy, renowned popularizer of astronomy. (M 7783) _ _.
Discovered on 31-8-1978 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.