Cornelius Ivanovich Udalov

Corneliy Ivanovich Udalov is a literary character, one of the main characters in the series of short stories by Kira Bulychev “The Great Guslyar ”. First appeared in the very first story of the series “Personal Relationships” The name was borrowed from the address book of the city of Vologda for 1913. The head of construction contractors and, in recent stories, a pensioner. In the story "Udalov’s Exaltation" he is even mistaken for an alien. He is close friends with Professor Mintz and inventor Grubin .

Cornelius Udalov is a kind of favorite character Bulychev. This is a thick middle peasant. Quite bold: it doesn’t cost him anything to drink an unknown potion, climb into a flying saucer, a crack in the earth, settle an alien, travel to alternative worlds with a visionary, penetrate a perpendicular world to fulfill an important task. He is the protagonist in the independent story “Need a free planet”, where he provides all possible assistance to five civilizations at once, suffering from overpopulation, war, the consequences of nuclear war, ecological all-planet catastrophe and the visit of a famous actress. He is rustic and slightly bureaucratic. The image migrated to Bulychev’s script “ Tears were falling ” (Pavel Ivanovich Vasin), where it was brilliantly played by Evgeny Leonov .