Ivan Tikhonov

Ivan Fedorovich Tikhonov is the head of the computer department of the FES. He is an expert in computers and any other technology, a programmer, a hacker. He is a biologist by education. He rightly calls himself a "computer genius".

Tikhonov has served in the FES since the day the service was formed solely at the insistence and thanks to the patronage of G.N. Rogozina. She knows Ivan personally, since she investigated a criminal case against him for committing fraud.

The fact is that when Ivan's sister died of a drug overdose, he began hacking bank payment systems and transferring funds to accounts of drug treatment clinics so that drug addicts would have a chance to recover without pocketing a penny. He was sentenced to imprisonment. With the assistance of the FES curator, police major general R.S. Sultanov, the banks dropped their claims against the "noble hacker", the money transferred to the clinics was declared charitable donations, the criminal case against Tikhonov was liquidated, and his conviction was effectively reset.

However, Tikhonov's employment at the FES is not without surprises on his part. So, on the first day of his release from the colony, he runs away from Rogozina's car, taking her pass. Then he independently studies the "Organist" case online (the first case of the expert service) and a day later shows up at the FES building with a fake pass created on the basis of the one borrowed from Rogozina; with apologies, he returns the original to Galina Nikolaevna. It should be noted that he arbitrarily appropriates the rank of police captain. Ivan, according to Rogozina, "a little child", frail, always disheveled, with a dumbfounded look, a detached gaze, dressed in T-shirts with pictures, jeans and sneakers, with the invariable headphones on his neck - looks a little naive and comical. But this is at first glance.

He can track any electronic gadget, enter any system of any level of protection. Passwords for mailboxes and cloud storage do not exist for him. He creates unique programs that make crime solving easier. He has a phenomenal memory. He works around the clock, spending the night in the office if the case requires it. And he is not drawn home - after all, his best friend - the computer - is always at hand; and he can quickly gobble up a bun in the FES buffet.

Tikhonov appears as a sad clown. He jokes a lot, teases his colleagues, but rarely laughs himself. His manner alone irritates everyone, from the operatives to the management. Ivan begins his report on the results of his investigation like this: "I spent the whole night using my program (pause, thoughtfully), checking Mr. N's personal mail, by the way, I entered his mail through my password selection program (pause), read his correspondence with many women (pause), who ... (fell silent, paused)." Then the reaction of his colleagues: Rogozina: "Ivan, I'll fire you", Amelina: "Tikhonov, I'll kill you", Maisky: "Vanya, maybe we can go outside and talk?" However, Ivan calmly continues: "... who all turned out to be prostitutes! We urgently need to find a brothel and allocate money to Lisitsyn for a whore ...!"

Nevertheless, relations with colleagues are friendly, despite Ivan's tediousness. At first, relations with Major Kruglov did not work out (see "Kruglov Nikolai Petrovich"). With the arrival of Andrey Kholodov in the department, the laboratory turns into a championship of "teen geniuses", in which there are two levels: the first - on work (to conduct examinations faster, to do analysis, etc.), the second - on childishness (shooting gloves, throwing papers into a basket, launching paper airplanes, etc.). In a word, a strong tandem, thanks to which many lives were saved, and criminals were detained.

Ivan Tikhonov has not started a family. He is probably in love with Oksana Amelina - his nagging and jibes at her clearly indicate this. from this world, but his spontaneity is sometimes disarming. "Morandi, Cutugno, Celentano, you probably don't even know their names" - Tikhonov: "Galin Nikolaevna, you know - I don't like football ..."; "I will not say that you need a psychiatrist!" - "Right! How many times can you tell me this ..."; Vlasova: "The management decided to give you a bonus!" - replies "After they failed to cremate me, they decided to give me a bonus ..." (the "Antidote" case); Rogozina: "Are you spending the night at work again? You are not a robot!" - in response "Why not? The latest generation robot is ready to work around the clock! Now I'll just wipe the photocells and I'm ready...". That's what Ivan Tikhonov is like - a botanist and a romantic, a skeptic and a pragmatist, smart as an academic and naive as a child... More people like him, "your polymerase chain reaction" (quote)! He's docile and jokes a lot with sadness in his eyes, there's no cruelty in him, he's gentle and calm.