Tanks Are Running on Taganka
After a serious injury, the hero loses his memory, but gains the gift of suggestion. On his walks around Moscow he is accompanied by the demon-tempter Brockhaus...


"Ygrek", aka Kostya

John Vasilyevich Brockhaus, former theater actor

nurse Galya

Professor, head physician of a mental hospital

old doctor

KGB chief

Chirik, a squeaky alcoholic

orderly

Nurse Barbara

Zabelin, a man with "voices in his head"

"Miklukho-Maclay", schizophrenic

saleswoman in a grocery store
Gennady Stepanovich, director of a grocery store

plainclothes policeman
Ygrek's former colleague

a general attacked by a hypnotized policeman
Tamara, the brunette in the restaurant

blonde in a restaurant

military

bald cook, moonlighting as a nurse and a welder

prostitute

fat man in a diner, "racketeer"