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Dmitry Sechenov (Russian: Дмитрий Сеченов) is the secondary antagonist of the 2023 first person shooter video game Atomic Heart. He is the director of enterprise 3826 and one of the most outstanding scientific minds of our time, not only in the USSR, but all over the world.

He was portrayed by Dmitry Romashin and voiced by Nikita Prozorovsky.

Atomic Heart[]

Victor Petrov activated the combat mode of robots, which caused mass deaths of employees in the 3826 Enterprise. Upon learning this, Sechenov sends P-3 in search of the traitor.

Nechaev unsuccessfully tries to catch Petrov, but he always turns out to be one step ahead thanks to robots and Larisa Filatova. The hunt for Petrov leads Nechaev to the theater. Mai Plisetskaya, where Petrov tells Nechaev that the combat mode was introduced by Sechenov into robots from the very beginning, and Petrov only activated it, and then Petrov commits suicide, but before that he gives the gold rings and asks to give them to Larisa Filatova.

After that, Larisa contacts P-3 and invites him to the Academy of Consequences, where she tells him that all this time Sechenov was planning to use robots to capture unfriendly countries, and Petrov was only trying to prevent this, and also shows recordings of a conversation between Sechenov and his subjects. All this makes Nechaev doubt Sechenov's innocence.

After Larisa's death, P-3 wakes up next to Baba Zina's house. Baba Zina and Charles ask Nechaev to stop Dmitry Sechenov and then the player must choose the ending.

If the player agrees, Nechaev breaks into Sechenov's office and confronts his Twin bodyguard robots, and then wounds Sechenov himself. But it turns out that all this time HRAZ has been using P-3 to destroy this world. Next, Charles sends Nechaev to limbo and kills Sechenov.

If the player chooses a good ending, then Nechaev refuses to kill Sechenov and snatches Khariton out of the glove, realizing that Charles was only manipulating him.

Annihilation Instinct[]

Sechenov's role in the plot of the supplement is small. Lebedev connects P-3 with Sechenov, who tells Nechaev about Ekaterina Nechaeva, and then allows him to take an indefinite vacation.

After that, Sechenov appears with Nechaev and asks why he did not wait for help. Sechenov says that the Twins will block Eleanor's wave vortex, and will not be able to help in any way, and asks Nechaev to complete the recombination.

Trivia[]

  • He has similarities with Wallace Breen from Half Life 2. Both were scientists who held a high position in the organization and both were voiced by Nikita Prozorovsky.
  • He looks like Gary Oldman.
  • His role in the game is identical to Andrew Ryan's role in Bioshock.
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