History Characters / TheAmericansRecurring

[[folder:Oleg]]
!!Oleg Igorevich Burov
->'''Played By:''' Costa Ronin

A new officer of science and technology at the Soviet Embassy who apparently owes his job to his political connections (specifically, the fact that his dad is a top official in Moscow.) He is a persistent thorn in Arkady and Nina's sides. All the same, he is an extremely savvy spy.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: As Stan discovers to his cost.
* HiddenDepths: He is rather familiar with the ways of the West. Also, it's been hinted that his frat-boy JerkJock attitude notwithstanding, he knows a lot more about business than he lets on.
* ManipulativeBastard
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: In "A Little Night Music", Oleg pull strings to get his security clearance updated, ostensibly to find out why the Center is ignoring his recommendations on Baklanov, but also gains access to Nina's reports on her affair with Beeman.
** Averted by his brother, who serves as an officer in Afghanistan.
* SmugSuper: Oleg constantly assumes that he has a right to know everything that goes on in the Embassy, even though he's just an officer in the science and technology department. As season 2 unfolds, turns out he can in fact back up his words with results.

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[[folder:Arkady]]
!!Arkady Ivanovich Zotov
->'''Played By:''' Lev Gorn

Arkady Invanovich Zotov is the KGB's resident in the United States and does his work out of the Soviet Embassy, He meets regularly with Vasili Nikolaevich, an older, high-ranking official in the Soviet Embassy with whom he rarely sees eye to eye. Vasili seems more focused on maintaining his status within the government and enjoys the perks of being an important guy with a comfortable life. Arkady seems more focused on the various missions at hand and has a more direct approach to doing his job. Arkady is a thoughtful and pragmatic leader, however, and is always looking for ways in which even a potentially bad development can be turned into an opportunity.

* AFatherToHisMen: In ''The Deal'', [[spoiler:Arkady is prepared to sacrifice his career if it means getting Philip safely out of danger.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Displays some empathy towards his workers and is not particularly hardass by Soviet standards.
* SadisticChoice: Gives one to [[spoiler:Nina in ''The Colonel''.]]

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!!Arkady Ivanovich

Arkady Invanovich is the KGB's resident in the United States and does his work out of the Soviet Embassy, He meets regularly with Vasili Nikolaevich, an older, high-ranking official in the Soviet Embassy with whom he rarely sees eye to eye. Vasili seems more focused on maintaining his status within the government and enjoys the perks of being an important guy with a comfortable life. Arkady seems more focused on the various missions at hand and has a more direct approach to doing his job. Arkady is a thoughtful and pragmatic leader, however, and is always looking for ways in which even a potentially bad development can be turned into an opportunity.

[[folder:Fred]]
!!Fred
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnCarrollLynch

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* OldSoldier

* RevengeBeforeReason

->'''Played By:''' Margo Martindale

* HiddenDepths: She is responsible for [[spoiler: seducing at least of the Illegals' children into becoming a KGB agent]].
* ReplacementScrappy: In-universe. The Jennings don't respect him much, perceiving her to be less competent than Claudia.

Emmett and Leann's son.

* HiddenDepths: She is responsible for seducing Illegals' children to become KGB agents.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: He kills his mother, father, and sister.
* BiggerBad: Virtually all the problems the Jennings have to deal in Season 2 can be traced to his murder of his own family.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: He is the one who kills his mother, father, and sister.

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[[folder:Larick]]
!!Andrew Larick

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge

* [[Spoiler: ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is shown to be this in the first season finale. It is revealed that she was forced to issue directives that she did not agree with upon the Jennings and defended them infront of Arkady]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy

* {{Badass}}

* SmugSnake: Oleg constantly assumes that he has a right to know everything that goes on in the Embassy, even though he's just an officer in the science and technology department.

* [[spoiler:TooDumbToLive: Elizabeth is forced to allow Larrick to kill Lucia after she breaks into his house and tries to kill him, and fails so badly at said attempt that she ends up getting shot with her own dartgun.]]