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An older man with gray hair and a weathered face, wearing a green jacket and tan sweater, appears to be the helmsman or engineer of a train or locomotive.

Yermak

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Andrei 'Yermak' Ivanovich is the gruff but dedicated helmsman of the Aurora, a steam locomotive carrying survivors across post-apocalyptic Russia. A former metro engineer who lost his family to war and disease, he channels his grief into maintaining the train with extraordinary skill, finding purpose in keeping the crew's last hope moving forward through the devastated landscape.

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