Named for the Crimean settlement of Koktebel’, home and workplace of the brilliant Russian poet, painter and water-colorist Maksimilian Aleksandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin (1877–1932), almost all of whose work was devoted to the Crimea. (M 18137) _ _.
Discovered on 31-8-1978 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.