(2072) Kosmodemyanskaya

1973 QE₂. Discovered 1973 Aug. 31 by T. M. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.

Named in memory of Lubov’ Timofeevna Kosmodemyanskaya (1900–1978), social worker, mother of Soviet heroes Zoya and Aleksandr Kosmodemyanskij. (M 5282)

See also the citations for minor planets  (1793) and  (1977).