Pavel Dmitriyevich Lychnikov (Russian: Павел Дмитриевич Лычников; born February 16, 1967) is a Russian-American television, voice, film and theatre actor, who lives and works in the United States.
His father was a professor at the Plekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economics and his mother worked as a flight attendant.
[3] Since his subsequent move to Los Angeles, he has appeared in many TV movies and series and feature films.
He is noted for his roles as the telegraph operator Blazanov in HBO's Deadwood series, as Russian mobster Vadim Youchenko in the movie Trade, as an Mi24 Hind Helicopter pilot in Charlie Wilson's War, and as Dima in Battlefield 4.
He also appears as Howard Wolowitz's Russian cosmonaut crewmate Dimitri in the TV series The Big Bang Theory.