Zmey Gorynych

* **Name:** Zmey Zmeivitch Gorynych
* **Position:** Major Stockholder in the EVO Corporation. Professional financier and investor. Import/Export consultant.
* **Citizenship:** Currently a registered citizen of the Front Range Free Zone, Yakut and the EVO Corporation
* **Date of Birth:** *[Probably Faked]* 12/21/2011, Tunguska, Siberia, Russian Federation (now in Yakut)

Zmey Gorynych is, by his own admission, a big deal. And unfortunately for the rest of us, he's right about that. Since at least the First Crash (records get fuzzy before that), he's been throwing around cash of uncertain origin at tech startups and major businesses alike, a name both respected and feared in investing and finance circles. Over the last half-century, he's been right slightly more right than he's been wrong, which is what 'winning' looks like in investing, so over the last few decades he's amassed an outrageous fortune, which he's used to buy power, largely in the form of stock in major AA and AAA corporations, which gives him the ability to arrange things so he makes more wealth, which he uses to... you get the idea. At the moment, he's a major enough player on the board of the AAA Prime EVO Corporation that he's one of the voices that people come to for opinions on the ongoing contest to become the new CEO.

Zmey Gorynych is also known to wield power of a less... indirect sort. That is, he is a well known money launderer and patrone to any number of *organizatsiya* of the Vory v Zakone, the Russian mob. EVO, for all the feel-good inclusivity since its rebranding, has always had ties to organized crime (largely the Vory and the Yakuza) and for much of that time, one of those ties has been through Gorynych. In underworld circles, he's well known for being able to call up Vory bosses like Vory bosses call up anybody else. His vast store of wealth and political connections gives him influence to get all the muscle he needs whenever he needs it. Not that he relies solely on subcontractors when his business dealings require direct action. He also maintains a small, but very elite force of personal legbreakers, usually drawn from ex-military personnel of EVO, the Russian Republic or Yakut, led by the famously 'unkillable' Tugarin, a wall of meat and violence fanatically loyal to his employer.

On a personal level Gorynych is something larger than life, and not just in physical stature, although he is an enormous man in both height and girth (his build has spawned a great deal of debate among both friends and enemies about whether he is Human or Ork, just never where he can hear them), but in lifestyle. He lives exactly the life you'd expect of a modern-day Russian oligarch, replete with bling, houses in Denver, Vladivostok, Moskau, Berlin and a personal island in the Maldives, jewelry, cars, fast computers. He holds massive, legendary parties who have guests like Terri Ann Riberio, Dietrich Sibich and Locryn Day. Especially infamous are his 'Birthday Parties' held each year on the anniversary of the Awakening (which he claims as his own birthday). These parties are epic even by Gorynych's standards, usually with competitive gift giving between Gorynych and his prestigious guests that boggles the minds of less privileged souls. I mean, they have traded spirits, artifacts, lostech, and more than a couple items that have shown up on the Big D's Will, *so ka*?

Nobody knows much about his background and Zmey has paid a lot of nuyen over the years to keep it that way. He claims that his interest is in the present, not the past, which like his many enemies, is mostly dead, but nobody goes to that much trouble just to make a philosophical point...

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