Named in honor of Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin (1923– ), outstanding and popular cinema actor who has appeared in almost 200 films since 1941. He is an honorary citizen of the Crimean city of Yalta {see planet (1475)} and also has the title honorary artist of Russia. (M 30095) _ _.
Discovered on 28-9-1973 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.