Named in honor of Mark Anatolievich Zakharov (1933– ), chief producer of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theatre, People’s Artist of the U.S.S.R. and Russian Federation State Prize laureate. He has produced many musical plays, performances in the genre of political drama and films for television. (M 34621) _ _.
Discovered on 24-8-1974 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, L. I.