3027 Shavarsh (1978 PQ2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 8 1978 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. This is named after the Soviet-Armenian swimming Champion and hero Shavarsh Karapetyan who saved over 20 people from a trolley that fell to the bottom of a lake.
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