Named in honor of Aleksej Evgenievich Gavrilov, friend of the discoverer, famous Ukrainian architect of bridges, director of the “Kievinterproekt” Institute of the International Academy of Architecture. He designed the south bridge over the Dnieper river at Kiev and the bridge over the Daugava river at Riga. He is the great-grandson of the astronomer and physicist S. V. Shcherbakov {see planet (3886)} and the son of the geographer M. V. Shcherbakova. (M 27127; M 27147) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1979 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.