Named in honor of Evgenij Alekseevich Lebedev (1917–1997), an actor at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Dramatic Theater in St. Petersburg and a People’s Artist of the U.S.S.R. The summit of his art was the unusual role of the horse in the performance History of a horse, after a story by Tolstoj {see planet (3771)}. (M 34622) _ _.
Discovered on 7-9-1986 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, L. I.