CrAO is often called simply by its location and campus name, Crimea–Nauchnij, still ranks among the worldwide most prolific discovery sites for minor planets.

[2] CrAO has also been publishing the Bulletin of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory since 1947, in English since 1977.

The observatory facilities (IAU code 095) are located on territory of settlement of Nauchnyi since the mid-1950s; before that, they were further south, near Simeiz.

As a peculiarity, British astronomer and long-time MPC director Brian G. Marsden is also credited with the co-discovery of 37556 Svyaztie at Nauchnij in 1982, as a symbolic gesture of the astronomical collaborations and friendships between the East and the West during the Cold War.

[7] The MPC also credits the discovery of the following minor planets directly to the observatory (rather than to one of the above listed astronomers):[1]