Guest From the Future/Characters

Nikolai "Kolya" Gerasimov (Alexei Fomkin)

 * Adaptation Rename: Surname changed from Naumov to Gerasimov to not confuse with Ilya Naumov (Fima).
 * Badass Normal
 * Fish Out of Temporal Water
 * Fish Out of Water
 * How Do I Went In Future
 * Kid Hero
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * Snooping Little Kid
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * Unfazed Everyman

Fima Korolev (Ilya Naumov)

 * Agent Mulder
 * Big Eater
 * Conspiracy Theorist
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Delusions of Eloquence
 * Fat Best Friend
 * The Lancer: To Kolya.
 * Snooping Little Kid
 * The Spock
 * Spy Speak
 * Temporal Paradox: Fima is worried about such occurrences.



Yulia Gribkova (Marianna Ionesyan)

 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Explains that in the future, when scientists invent technology to travel in space and time, they will name the technology as it was named in Science Fiction works.
 * Medium Awareness
 * Moe Couplet: With Alisa.
 * Raised by Grandparents
 * Team Mom
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: With Alisa, and the girlier of the pair.

Marta Erastovna the physical education teacher (Natalia Varley)

 * Badass Teacher: Throws Jolly U out a second-story window.
 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty: A Lighter and Softer version.
 * Let's Get Dangerous
 * Mama Bear

Yulia's grandmother (Ludmila Arinina)

 * Agent Scully: Does not believe in space pirates and time travel, but does accept that Alisa is in danger.
 * Cool Old Lady
 * Parental Substitute
 * Reasonable Authority Figure

Doctor Alik Borisovich (Georgi Burkov)

 * Hospital Hottie
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Smart People Wear Glasses

Alla Sergeevna the English teacher (Yekaterina Vasilieva)

 * Brainy Brunette
 * Hot Teacher

Shurochka the nurse (Maria Sternikova)

 * Hospital Hottie

The other schoolchildren

 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Dawson Casting: Averted Trope. All the child actors are around 12 or 13.
 * Everyone Went to School Together
 * Hero Secret Service
 * Huge Schoolgirl: Albina Fetisova is distinctly taller than the other girls.
 * Lovable Alpha Bitch: Albina Fetisova.
 * Mouthy Kid: Kolya Sadovsky butts into Alisa and Yulia's conversation with Kolya Gerasimov, and boasts that if he met space pirates, he'd shoot them with a laser.
 * One Steve Limit: Averted. Three Kolyas: Kolya Sulima, Kolya Sadovsky, and Kolya Gerasimov.
 * Sailor Fuku
 * Six-Student Clique
 * The Head: Kolya Gerasimov.
 * The Muscle: Kolya Sadovsky.
 * The Quirk: Fima Korolev.
 * The Pretty One: Albina Fetisova or Lena Dombazova.
 * The Smart One: Yulia Gribkova.
 * The Wild One: Alisa Selezneva.
 * True Companions
 * Wacky Homeroom
 * You Meddling Kids

The eyewitness

 * Blatant Lies
 * Dirty Coward
 * Unwitting Instigator of Doom

Alisa Seleznyova (Natalia Guseva)

 * Action Girl
 * Adaptation Dye Job: Alisa is blonde in the books, but Natalia Guseva is a brunette.
 * Alice Allusion
 * Always Someone Better: Better in class than any of the other students.
 * Badass Adorable
 * Blue Eyes
 * Brainy Brunette
 * Cat Smile
 * Child Prodigy
 * Even the Girls Want Her
 * Extreme Multilingual: "I'm not an expert. I only know eight languages."
 * Russian plus English, French, Spanish, Czech, Finnish, Hindi, Chinese, and Japanese.
 * Fake Shemp: When she speaks English, the camera quickly cuts away from her face to the rest of her class. Her voice was dubbed over by the daughter of an English diplomat at the British Embassy in Moscow.
 * Fish Out of Temporal Water
 * Friend to All Living Things: Is first seen petting a crocodile at the Kosmozoo.
 * Girls Need Role Models: Natalia Guseva ended up being inspired by her role to become a scientist.
 * Jail Bait Wait: Some fans were attracted a little too much to Alisa and to Natalia Guseva.
 * Kid From the Future: Discussed Trope. She tells Yulia "Maybe I'm your granddaughter," but is probably joking.
 * Kid Hero
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Magnetic Hero
 * Moe
 * Moe Couplet: With Yulia.
 * Moe Stare
 * Mysterious Waif
 * New Transfer Student: The explanation for her appearance at school.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Alice or Alisa?
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl. With Yulia, and the Tomboy of the pair.
 * Trauma-Induced Amnesia
 * Waif Prophet
 * What Beautiful Eyes!

The Pirates, Jolly U (Vyacheslav Nevinny) and Rat (Mikhail Kononov)

 * Acrofatic: Jolly U.
 * Bizarre Alien Biology: Shapeshifters from Saturn.
 * Complete Monster: They shoot Werther in the back and torture Kolya. They have no conscience.
 * Conqueror From the Future
 * Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
 * Evil Is Petty
 * Eye Beams
 * Fashion Victim Villain: The pirates in their Cosmodrome uniforms, which they quickly exchange for street clothes.
 * Fangs Are Evil: Rat.
 * Fat and Skinny: Jolly U and Rat, respectively
 * Fat Bastard: Jolly U. Vyacheslav Neviny would eventually die from diabetes.
 * Fluffy the Terrible: Jolly U.
 * Glamour Failure
 * Greed
 * Hugh Mann: Their movements are stiff and their voices may randomly become deep or scratchy.
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor: Vyacheslav Nevinny and the child actors got along very well.
 * Names to Run Away From: Rat.
 * Parasol of Pain: Wielded by Rat.
 * Not So Harmless
 * Rubber Forehead Aliens
 * Sealed Evil In A Cargo Container
 * Shapeshifting: They can appear as anyone whom they have seen.
 * Space Pirates
 * Those Two Bad Guys
 * Villainous Glutton: Jolly U.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting



Werther the robot (Yevgeny Gerasimov)
"[throws head back] "Ha! Ha! Ha!""
 * Adorkable
 * Artificial Human
 * Badass Automaton
 * Berserk Button: Being called a tin can. "I am a biorobot, and nobody has ever insulted me like that!"
 * Composite Character: Fulfills the role of several aliens from the book.
 * Computer Voice
 * Do-Anything Robot
 * Ensemble Darkhorse
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Hidden Depths
 * Mighty Glacier
 * Ridiculously-Human Robots
 * Smart People Play Chess
 * Space Clothes: A silver jumpsuit.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Verter or Werther?
 * Super Powered Robot Janitor
 * Super Strength: Lifts the pirates and throws them with ease.
 * Uncanny Valley: His laugh.


 * Unflinching Walk
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * You Shall Not Pass

Polina (Yelena Metyolkina)

 * Book Ends: She appears at the beginning and end of the Miniseries.
 * Force Field: Protects her from the pirates' weapons.
 * Hot Scientist
 * Ice Queen
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * The Paralyzer
 * Space Clothes: At the end, she wears a silver jumpsuit.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Woman in White

Professor Seleznyov (Yuri Grigoryev)

 * The Professor

Grandfather Pavel (Vladimir Nosik)

 * Older Than They Look
 * Really One Hundred Thirty

The Time Institute scientists, Ivan Sergeevich (Boris Shcherbakov), Gogi (Ruben Simonov), Maria (Yelena Tsyplakova)

 * Fur Bikini: On the woman in Stone Age costume.
 * Gorky Studio Costuming
 * Wig, Dress, Accent: One in a toga went to Alexandria, one dressed as a marquis, and one dressed in furs with a club.

The future schoolchildren

 * Casual Interstellar Travel
 * Space Clothes
 * Values Dissonance: By our standards, schoolchildren making and launching their own satellite would be ludicrous. By 2084 standards, it is normal.

Electron Ivanovich and Napoleon the goat

 * Awesome Anachronistic Apparel
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Talking Animal