[2] Tanya is a carbonaceous C-type asteroid, that orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 3.1–3.3 AU once every 5 years and 9 months (2,101 days).
[1] It was first identified as 1953 GH1 at Goethe Link Observatory in 1953, extending the body's observation arc by 18 years prior to its official discovery at Nauchnij.
[11] In October 2013, a rotational lightcurve of Tanya was obtained from photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory in California.
[9] According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Tanya measures between 37.736 and 43.89 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has a low albedo between 0.03 and 0.055.
[3] This minor planet was named by the discover for the memory of the young Russian girl Tanya Savicheva (1930–1944), who died after the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) on the Eastern Front during World War II.