It was discovered on 16 August 1925, by Soviet astronomer Grigory Shajn at Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula.

[2] Ukraina orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.9 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,340 days).

[7][8] This minor planet was named after the country Ukraine, then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1922–1991).

The name was proposed by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Leningrad, what is now St.

[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1967 (M.P.C.