Nicholai Ginovaef

First appearance: Resident Evil 3

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Commander of the U.B.C.S. Delta Platoon B Team. Originally from Moscow, Russia, Nicholai is a former member of Spetsnaz, the Russian Special Forces. With his survival ratio, he's HUNK's only real rival. During the Cold War, he took part in a number of political assassinations and insurgency operations, but due to the secretive nature of these missions, much of his history is shrouded in mystery. It's precisely because of this sordid past that the man called Nicholai Ginovaef has come to exist.

His skills as a warrior are unsurpassed, a fact recognized by those high in the Umbrella organization. On the other hand, there's growing criticism among his own unit with regard to his survival rate, and he's not very well liked by his own people.

During the private rescue operations in Raccoon City, Nicholai was entrusted with a number of secret duties. Umbrella's true aim was to recover the battle data and the medical data for the B.O.W. then under development, and Nicholai was the first of many who were ordered to retrieve it for them.

Experienced in both urban and deep-woods combat, Nicholai was gradually approaching a successful completion of his duties. Accomplished at setting booby traps and the art of assassination, capturing his comrades in a trap was not a difficult task. Even when put in a hopeless situation, he would always find a way to gain the upper hand. His skills as a stealth agent truly bordered on mythical.

By the time Jill learned of his identity, he had already accomplished his objective. Everything had gone exactly as Nicholai had planned. Later, when he managed to steal a helicopter to make his own escape, he showed the extent of his ruthlessness by leaving Jill and her companion, Carlos Oliveira, to die. Nicholai intended for them to be burned to ashes in the U.S. military's sterilization strategy for Raccoon City.