4118 Sveta, named after Svetlana Savitskaya, a retired Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space, was discovered by L. V. Zhuravleva on 15 October 1982.
The asteroid was named after Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya. 
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian:   ; born 8 August 1948) is a retired Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. 
It was discovered on 15 October 1982, by Russian astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, on the Crimean peninsula. L. V. Zhuravleva 
