General Ourumov (Gottfried John)

Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov
Character information
Title/rank	General
Died	1995 St. Petersburg, Russia
Hair	Gray
Eyes	Green
Height	6'2"
Weight	--
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Commander of Russian Space Division
Affiliation	Janus Syndicate, Russia, Alec Trevelyan
Status	Deceased, shot by James Bond
Behind the scenes
Role	Main Villain, Henchman
Portrayed by	Gottfried John

General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov (Аркадий Григорович Ourumov) is commander of the Russian Space Division, a member of the Janus Syndicate and one of the primary villains in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. He was portrayed by Gottfried John.

Film biography

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In 1968, he graduated from Moscow Military Academy. In 1970, he graduated from the School of Applied Military Science in Kiev. Later that year, he was promoted to Captain and was posted to an advanced Army Missile Test Range from 1970 to 1975. In 1975, he was promoted to Major and was assigned to the Soviet Space Division from 1975 to 1981. Ourumov then served in the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan where he survived the explosion of a nearby tank, giving him a phobia of them as a result. Some time later, he was promoted to Colonel and assigned to a Chemical Weapons Facility in Arkhangelsk. 

Years later, he appeared trying to stop James Bond from planting explosives in a Russian chemical weapons factory. Due to the explosion of the tanks, he could not kill Bond, and used Alec Trevelyan as a way of getting Bond to come out. When Bond did, Ourumov apparently killed Alec (this is not so). The Russians began to shoot, but Ourumov ordered them to hold their fire, otherwise they would "blow the gas tanks". About to give one last chance to surrender, Ourumov spots Bond escaping via hiding behind a tank. One tense Russian opened fire by accident. Ourumov punished this by shooting him. Bond managed to escape the dam, as did Ourumov.

Some years later, Ourumov, who is now a General, increasingly disheartened with Russia's decline following the Cold War, betrays Russia by helping the Janus Crime Syndicate - led by Alec Trevelyan - steal the GoldenEye weapons system, destroying one satellite to cover their tracks and using his 'failure' as an excuse to resign his official position. When Bond and Natalya Simonova are being interrogated by Defence Minister Dimitri Mishkin in the Military Intelligence Archives of St. Petersburg, Ourumov appears and shoots Mishkin with Bond's gun to try and frame him. Bond knocks Ourumov out before escaping with Natalya, but Ourumov soon captures her and escapes in his car.

Bond pursues him in a tank and tracks them to Trevelyan's converted armoured train. Bond uses the tank to stop the train and boards it before holding Trevelyan at gunpoint. Bond reveals to Ourumov that Trevelyan is a Lienz Cossack and will eventually betray him, leaving Ourumov shocked. Bond is then forced to shoot Ourumov with his Kalashnikov to save Natalya, who was being held hostage, but this then allows Trevelyan and Xenia to escape.

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