Named for the district center of the Tula region of the {former} R.S.F.S.R. Plavsk is the twin town of the Ukrainian town Genichesk {see the citation for minor planet (2093)}, the birthplace of the discoverer. (M 7616) _ _.
Discovered on 31-8-1973 in Nauchnyj by Smirnova, T. M.