(17356) Vityazev = 1978 PG4
Veniamin Vladimirovich Vityazev (b. 1943), a professor at
St. Petersburg University and director of the V. V. Sobolev Astronomical
Institute, has contributed to the elaboration of fundamental stellar catalogue
systems and to the detection by wavelet analysis of periodicities in the
earth's rotation.
A complete set of naming citations of the numbered minor planets is available in the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, edited by Lutz Schmadel.