Captain Tanya

Captain Tatiana "Tanya" Kirbuk Orlova is the commander of the Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two and film adaption.

Character naming
In the film, Tanya (Helen Mirren) goes by Kirbuk, but in the original novel, she is married to chief scientist Vasili Orlov—thus bears the feminine tense, common in Russian, as Captain Orlova.

2010 odyssey
Captain Tanya is a Russian cosmonaut who commands the Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on the joint Soviet/USA Jupiter Mission to investigate Discovery and the Jovian Monolith in 2010.