Named in memory of the outstanding archaeologist Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky (1908–1990), director of the Hermitage {see planet (4758)} museum in St. Petersburg for many years. The name also honors his son Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky (1944– ), a well-known orientalist who succeeded his father as Hermitage director. (M 29144) _ _.
Discovered on 26-10-1989 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, L. I.