Pasha D. Lychnikoff

Pasha D. Lychnikov (Russian: Павел Дмитриевич Лычников) is a Russian-American television, voice, film and theatre actor, who lives and works in the United States.

In the early 1990s, Lychnikoff moved to the United States. Since his subsequent move to Los Angeles, he has appeared in many TV movies and series and feature films. He is noted for his roles as the telegraph operator Blazanov in HBO’s Deadwood series, as Russian mobster Vadim Youchenko in the movie Trade and as Dima in Battlefield 4. He also appears as Howard Wolowitz’s Russian cosmonaut crewmate Dimitri in the TV series The Big Bang Theory.

Lychnikoff has also made several stage appearances in Russia and the U.S. His self-written play The Shelter, which he also directed, was nominated for the Californian Ovation Award in five categories, and Lychnikoff’s performance in it received positive reviews from a number of critics