Pasha Vershinin and Vitaly Sorokin

Appearance, personality: light-blond, short, curly hair, gray eyes. He was 33 when he died, but now he's past that age and lives with the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Because Sorokin spent so much time alone, unable to leave the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, he's become less emotional and can mostly express anger, sadness, and melancholy. He's angry at his current existence, his fate, what happened to his beloved Pripyat after the explosion, and also at the fact that he'll never see his wonderful wife and sweet daughter again. He misses the old Pripyat that was before the explosion, the people who walked the streets, the cheerful laughter of children, and he deeply misses his wife and daughter, who he had before the ill-fated explosion.

History and abilities: Before this, he lived as an ordinary person. He had a family, a daughter, and a wife. Sorokin lived in Pripyat and worked as an engineer for the main circulation pumps in workshop number 2. He died on April 26, 1986, after the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, buried alive under the rubble of reactor compartment number 4. However, he did not die completely; he became the Mind of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Now he cannot leave the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, but he can control and alter the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, create mutants, anomalies, and artifacts, possess telekinesis, and can also control and subjugate people, summon the spirits of the dead, and make deals. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, or more precisely, reactor number 4, is the heart of the Chernobyl Zone. The more radiation in the center of the Zone, and in the Zone in general, the stronger Vitaly becomes. Vitaly Sorokin, using his powers, now took control of Pavel Vershinin, who had previously harbored a piece of the Zone due to his adventures. Sorokin altered part of Pasha's memories, causing Pasha to believe his friends were dead. Pavel became the head of the company GlobalKintek and is now overseeing the creation of a new time machine on the territory of Unit 4, which Sorokin needed to return his mind to 1986, alter the past, and avoid becoming the Zone.

He travels to Chernobyl to find 8 million rubles stolen from his parents' apartment. Pasha and his friends find themselves in 1986, the day before the Chernobyl disaster. After their journey, they try to warn people about the impending disaster. But no one believes them, and KGB Captain Kostenko even believes they are plotting sabotage. When they return to 2013, Kostenko kills everyone except Pasha during a brawl. Together, they travel to 1986, where they prevent the Chernobyl disaster, but Kostenko inadvertently kills his past self, thereby dying. Pasha is thrown back to 2013, where he learns that the USSR never collapsed, the Chernobyl accident never happened, and the tragedy occurred in the United States. After a series of reality changes caused by time travel, Pavel desperately tried to reclaim his former life. To do so, he reunited with his transformed friends from the Soviet era, and gradually they became a team again, preventing an accident at the American nuclear power plant that occurred instead of Chernobyl. Eventually, finding themselves back in 2013, the guys end up at the police station, where they meet Kostenko. But it turns out he doesn't know them, questioning them about why they used the names of children on a hit list who died in 1995. Investigating this, the friends realize that their murder was ordered by the head of the company "Global Kintech" Dmitry Kinyaev. They all go together to the Zone, where Kinyaev summoned them. In the final scene, Pasha kills Kinyaev and points the gun at Anya, but is unable to shoot due to his love for her. He throws the gun down and walks toward the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, finally merging with the Zone, becoming part of it.