Named for the Research Institute of wine-making and viticulture at Magarach, near Yalta {see planet (1475)}. Founded in 1828 as a specialized school for gardening and wine-making, Magarach was one of the first such schools in what was then Russia. (M 22501) _ _.
Discovered on 9-8-1978 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.