Named in honor of Aleksandr Vasil’evich Maslyakov, Moscow television journalist, one of the founders and for many years presenter of the program KVN (Club of Merry and Resourceful Persons), which is very popular not only in the countries of the former Soviet Union but in others too. (M 30096) _ _.
Discovered on 1-4-1976 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.