Named in honor of Oleg Vail’evich Dobrovol’skij {1914–1989}, head of the Cometary Astronomy Department of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Tadjik S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe, well known for his research on the physics of comets. (M 11159) _ _.
Discovered on 23-9-1979 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.