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This Russian soldier served under Irina Spalko during an expedition to Akator in 1957.
Biography[]
The soldier was sent with a Russian expedition to Akator to return a Crystal Skull. However their captives, Indiana Jones, Marion Ravenwood, and Mutt Williams escaped from their truck which initiated a chase for the artifact.[1]
After Colonel Spalko was collected, the soldier and his comrades used ropes to climb down the side of a cliff when a vehicle hijacked by Ravenwood and her family drove over the cliff edge and landed in a tree growing out from the wall which lowered them into the river below. The tree snapped back and hit the descending Soviets, killing three of them but the expedition continued their jouney to Akator,[1] with the soldier being among the dozen of the original sixty Spalko deemed fit to carry on and had proven their worth despite his bandaged wounds and body parts swollen from ant bites. Once Spalko and the soldiers reached the lost city, they ruthlessly slaughtered nearly all of the native Ugha tribe, although some managed to escape from them via secret caves.[2]
The soldier stands to the left of Roosevelt at Akator.
When the soldier and his compatriots finally reached Akator, with the help of double agent George McHale, they recaptured Jones and his friends along with the skull upon their arrival, but when Spalko place the skull on the headless skeleton of an Interdimensional being, a portal opened in the chamber's ceiling and it pulled the soldier and all the other Soviets inside, sucking this soldier into the vortex[1] to his destruction while an uncaring[3] Spalko was left to burn.[1]
Personality and traits[]
Irina Spalko considered this soldier as one of "the best of the best" the Soviet Special Forces could offer, as he was fit to carry on the trip to Akator and make the climb despite his injuries and had proven his worth by coming through terror and fire to there, bringing his gear with him in preparation.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
The unidentified Russian soldier was portrayed by an uncredited performer in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Like one of his comrades, this Soviet is one of the two uncredited soldiers who appear in the Temple of Akator sequence.[1]
While he and his companions are sucked into the vortex in the film,[1] the soldiers receive a different fate in the comic book adaptation. There they are incinerated by the piercing gaze of the crystal skeletons of the temple.[4]