"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"