Named in honor of well-known Soviet composer Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov (1913– ), who wrote many operas, operettas, ballets, symphony scores, and music for theater and films. He is a professor at the Moscow Conservatory and led the Union of Soviet Composers for many years. (M 34340) _ _.
Discovered on 28-9-1973 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.