Named in honor of academician Yurij Nikolaevich Denisyuk (b. 1927), head of a laboratory at the Ioffe Physical and Technical Institute in St. Petersburg and a member of the Royal Photographic Society, known worldwide for his discoveries in holography. Name suggested by the Institute of Applied Astronomy.
Discovered on 18-4-1972 in Nauchnyj by Smirnova, T. M.