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{{Conjecture}} {{Infobox Character |character name = Soviet Driver |image = [[File:Soviet_driver.jpg|240px]] |gender = Male<ref name="KotCS">''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]''</ref> |nationality = {{Nat-USSR}}<ref name="KotCS" /> |birth = [[Ukraine]]<ref name="KotCS Novel">[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (novel)|''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' novel]]</ref> |death =[[1957]]<br>[[South America]]n jungle, [[Brazil]]<ref name="KotCS" /> |profession = *Soldier<ref name="KotCS" /> *Driver<ref name="KotCS" /> |allegiances = [[Soviet Special Forces]]<ref name="KotCS" /> }} A '''Soviet driver''' served under [[Antonin Dovchenko]] and was [[Irina Spalko]]'s driver during their quest to return the [[Crystal Skull of Akator|Crystal Skull]] to [[Akator]] in [[1957]]. == Biography == The [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] driver was an [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]], who, in [[1957]], was not much older than [[Irina Spalko]] had been when she first joined the army.<ref name="KotCS Novel" /> That same year, the Soviet driver and his comrades, disguised as [[United States of America|US]] military soldiers, aided [[Colonel]] [[Antonin Dovchenko]] and Colonel [[Doctor]] Irina Spalko in infiltrating [[Hangar 51]] in [[Nevada]], USA as part of a covert Soviet invasion of America to acquire the [[New Mexico specimen]].<ref name="KotCS" /> The man accompanied his superiors to Hangar 51 in the back of a large cargo truck. On the way to the hangar, he disapproved of several teenagers led by [[Jimmy Keegan]] speeding past in their hot rod. Once they arrived at Hangar 51, [[Sergeant]] [[Jimmy Wycroft|Wycroft]] and his MPs approached them, informing them that the base they were entering was closed due to weapons testing. The Ukrainian remained inside his truck as several other soldiers executed the guards, and then they were led into the hangar itself.<ref name="KotCS" /> Their prisoners, [[Indiana Jones]] and [[George McHale|George "Mac" McHale]], were released under Dovchenko's orders, and were surrounded by the Soviets as Jones retrieved his [[fedora]]. After Jones was coerced into finding the crate holding the Roswell crash victim, he led the group into the hangar, where they awaited further instructions from their captive. When Jones asked Colonel Dovchenko for bullets, the Colonel translated this to his subordinates and they all laughed at Indy. However, the [[archaeologist]] was able to convince Dovchenko to give him several bullets which he used to locate the highly magnetized crate in which the Roswell remains were kept.<ref name="KotCS"/> The Soviets looked on in awe as Spalko opened the crate, showing them all the corpse of a [[Interdimensional beings|deceased being]] from [[Space between spaces|another world]]. However, Jones used the distraction of the inhuman body to disable [[Adams|the Soviet guarding him]] and steal a machine gun from both the latter and Franklin for himself and Mac. The two threatened Spalko, but after Mac revealed his loyalty was to the Russians, Indy realized he was outnumbered. Dovchenko ordered him to drop his gun, but when Jones did the machine gun fired and the bullet hit Marelli in the foot, allowing the archaeologist time to climb a wall of crates and make his escape, despite the efforts of several soldiers to kill him.<ref name="KotCS"/> [[File:AntPwned.jpg|thumb|300px|Eaten by the siafu.]] The Ukrainian later served as Irina Spalko's driver in [[Brazil]]. When [[Indiana Jones]] escaped in a [[duck]] with the [[Crystal Skull of Akator]], the driver transported Spalko during the subsequent chase through the jungle to gain control of the artifact. At one point, Spalko forced him into the backseat and took over [[GAZ 69|the vehicle]] herself, hanging on for his life due to his superior's reckless driving, later getting attacked by the several [[monkey]]s that [[Mutt Williams]] brought as reinforcements for Indy and his party, but the soldier eventually got back behind the wheel only for the Soviets and Jones' party to crash into a nest of deadly [[siafu]] ants. Both the driver and Spalko managed to escape from their crashed vehicle and ran for the safety of the trees, but the driver didn't make it. Overcome by the ant swarm, as he fruitlessly scratched himself, the driver was pulled down and devoured alive.<ref name="KotCS" /> == Behind the scenes == The [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] Driver was portrayed uncredited by [[Lee Morrison]] in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]''.<ref>[http://www.theraider.net/films/indy4/screenplay.php Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Screenplays] at [[TheRaider.net]]</ref> The character is identified in the film's pre-visualization animatics as "[[Russia]]n Driver".<ref name="P-v">''[[Pre-Production]]'', section "Pre-viz"</ref> As seen in the film's [[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (DVD)|two-set disc]] featurette ''[[Pre-Production]]'', pre-visualization on the [[siafu]] attack scene shows that the driver was going to reach the bottom of the tree [[Irina Spalko]] hangs from and then stops moving, with Spalko turning to see the driver suddenly covered by the ants, grabbing at his own throat and falls dead to the ground as the ants devour him.<ref name="P-v" /> His death is slightly different in [[James Rollins]]' [[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (novel)|novelization]] in that he dies sooner. Unlike in the film, the driver is unable to get out of the [[GAZ 69|car]] before being swarmed and eaten by the ants.<ref name="KotCS Novel" /> In the [[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (comic)|comic book adaptation]] by [[Dark Horse Comics]], he doesn't get eaten by the siafu as Spalko's car doesn't crash into the anthill. With the art open to interpretation, the driver may have been one of the three soldiers alongside Spalko who die in the [[Temple of Akator]] at the end of the comic, incinerated by the [[interdimensional beings]] and pulled into the vortex.<ref>[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (comic)|''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' comic]]</ref> In ''[[LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues]]'', the Soviet Driver survives the attack because he is not with Spalko at the moment the siafu appear. Instead, he appears with a sweeper and rescues Spalko, leaving [[Antonin Dovchenko]] to face his fate. In the DS version, he drives the car during the sword fight between Spalko and [[Mutt Williams]], but as Spalko's vehicle never crashes into the anthill, the Soviet Driver's fate is left unknown.<ref>''[[LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues]]''</ref> == Appearances == *''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' {{Fa}} *[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (novel)|''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' novel]] *[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (comic)|''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' comic]] *''[[LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues]]'' {{Nc}} == Notes and references == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Characters appearing in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]] [[Category:Soviets]] [[Category:Soviet military personnel]] [[Category:Deceased]]
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