Yankov

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Yankov
Alias	No information
Origin	Rambo III
Occupation	Soviet Army pilot
Powers / Skills	Military training Piloting
Goals	Kill Rambo and Trautman and take down the Mujahideen (failed).
Crimes	Mass murder
Type of Villain	Military Supremacist

Yankov is a supporting antagonist of the 1988 film Rambo III. He is a Soviet army pilot who is in league with Colonel Alexei Zaysen.

Role

Along with many of the Soviet men deployed in Afghanistan, Yankov assisted Colonel Zaysen as his co-pilot in slaughtering many of the Mujahideen and their families to keep the region in check, even before Zaysen captured Colonel Trautman due to the latter's assistance with the Mujahideen.

Zaysen was later informed by a Pakistani shop assistant that his former employer Mousa Ghani (a Mujahideen arms dealer) and the other Mujahideen are conspiring with a ex-soldier named John Rambo (a protege of Trautman) to rescue Trautman from captivity. With this information, Yankov assisted Zaysen in laying down a helicopter attack on the village where Rambo and Mousa are residing, resulting numerous casualties. Despite this setback, Rambo was able to rescue Trautman and the remaining captured Afghan villagers from Zaysen's military base before killing Sergeant Kourov and Tomask. As such, Zaysen angrily ordered Yankov and his other men to track down Rambo and Trautman at all costs, telling them that they shouldn't reach the border.

Eventually, Zaysen and his troops succeeded in tracking down Rambo and Trautman before they could cross the border, but the Mujahideen arrived with numerous forces, overwhelming the Soviet soldiers to their deaths. This allows Rambo to commandeer a Soviet tank, which he uses the tank's machine guns to fire onto Zaysen's helicopter. As the bullets pierce into the chopper, Yankov ends up being hit by several of them just as Rambo fires a tank shell onto the chopper, killing Zaysen, Yankov and their crew in the process.

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