Named in memory of Anatolij Vasil’evich Lyapidevskij (1908–1983), Soviet airman who participated in the search and rescue of the crew members of the “Chelyuskin”, a ship crushed by ice in the Arctic Ocean on 1934 Feb. 13. (M 27127) _ _.
Discovered on 11-11-1979 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.