During his brief partnership with Hopper, Joyce and Murray, he was shown to enjoy Slurpee's and cartoons (such as Woody Woodpecker and Looney Tunes) and longed to join in the festivities at the Hawkins 4th of July Fun Fair. He was later killed by Grigori, a Russian hitman, after he attempted to defect to the United States and was briefly left unattended by Bauman.Īlexei had a very childlike personality. Alexei later won one of the carnival games, and he got a Giant, Stuffed Woody Woodpecker. Murray said he didn’t have to be American to go in, and they both entered the Fun Fair. Later Alexei, Murray, Jim and Joyce went to the Fun Fair to search for the kids, Alexei thought he couldn’t go in the Fun Fair because he wasn’t American.
Upon this being translated, Hopper, Joyce, and Murray then proceeded to return to Hawkins with Alexei with the intent to close the Russians’ Gate. The “Key” was able to unlock a “doorway between worlds”, Alexei’s way of articulating the concept of a Portal to Murray.
Alexei later explained the reason for the secret Soviet presence in Hawkins was because of a device known as the “Key” that he and his colleagues were trying to construct, which they had failed to do Russia on numerous occasions. He then went on the run with him, Joyce Byers, and later Murray Bauman.Īlexei communicates with the other characters with the help of Murray, who is fluent in Russian. Alexei and a fellow scientist were then given one year to get the Key to work properly.Īlexei stopped work on the Key after he was arrested by Jim Hopper. Alexei had no fluency in English and could only speak Russian.Īfter Alexei’s supervisor failed to get the Key to work properly, despite claiming to be close to finishing, he was then executed by Grigori, as Alexei watched him suffocate. He was a Russian scientist who was forced into working on the Key beneath the Starcourt Mall. Alexei was born sometime during the early 1950s and was raised in the Soviet Union.