It is a dynamic member of the Maria asteroid family orbiting near the 3:1 Kirkwood gap.

[4] Object 1914 UQ, discovered 20 April 1914 by Grigory Neujmin, was named 787 Moskva, after the capital of Russia, Moscow (and retains that name to this day).

Object 1934 FD discovered on 19 March 1934 by C. Jackson was given the sequence number 1317.

In 1938, G. N. Neujmin found that asteroid 1317 and 787 Moskva were, in fact, the same object.

The asteroid displayed a rotation period of 6.056 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.62 ± 0.01 in magnitude.