Named in honor of Mikhail Anatol’evich Vil’ev (1893–1919), who, because of his exceptional abilities and tireless efforts, and in spite of his short life, made a prodigious number of investigations in the areas of celestial mechanics, theoretical astronomy and the history of astronomy. (M 7785) _ _.
Discovered on 29-3-1979 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.