Sergeant Savely Govorkov (nicknamed Furious, also called Sergei (Rex) Govorkov in films) is a

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featuring in novels by Victor Dotsenko and others in the

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. A breakout character, Govorkov was created by Victor Dotsenko in the 1980s and by 1995 had featured in a number of novels by Dotsenko, making Dotsenko the most published and highest paid Russian writer. He appeared in more than twenty novels, all of them became a

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s. Other writers who have prominently featured the character in their works include Yuri Nikitin,

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, Valery Roschin, Kirill Vorobyev. In the films portraying the character, his name was changed from the unusual Russian name "Savely" to the more common and catchy "Sergie". In the 1992 Soviet action/ adventure film '' Terminate the Thirtieth!'', based on the book by the same name, the character is played by

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Savely Govorkov is a fictional character who squares off against the mafia, criminals, corrupt politicians, Chechen terrorists, and foreign enemies, saving President Yeltsin and receiving a

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from US authorities. A veteran of the

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, he is almost superheroic in his approach, often compared to Rambo.

'' "Overkill: sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture". Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008 - 265 p. , * ''Michael L. Bressler'' "Understanding contemporary Russia". Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009 - 423 p. , (Page 371) * ''Anna Brodsky, Mark Naumovich Lipovetskiĭ, Marina Kanevskaya, Sven Spieker'' "The imprints of terror: the rhetoric of violence and the violence of rhetoric in modern Russian culture". Gesellschaft zur Förderung slawistischer Studien, 2006 - 290 p. , (Page 121) * ''Anthony Olcott'' "Russian pulp: the detektiv and the Russian way of crime". Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 - 207 p. , (Pages 33,145,191,202) * "Russian studies in literature", vol. 36. Periodical. Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2000. * "The Soviet and post-Soviet review", vol. 29. Periodical. Salt Lake City, UT : College of Humanities,

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, 2002.

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