The Mechanik (released under the alternative title known as The Russian Specialist) is a 2005 German-American vigilante action film starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Bryan Edward Hill.

His wife, Alina and son, Vanya are killed by Russian mob boss Aleksandr "Sasha" Popov when he and his gang start a shootout after a bad drug deal.

Wealthy widow Mary Abramoff tracks him down and pleads with him to go to Russia and retrieve her daughter Julia, who has been kidnapped and forced into the sex trade.

Finally he is convinced when Mary reveals that the man who killed her husband and took her daughter is Sasha, still alive, and Nick sets off to St. Petersburg, Russia.

The following night, Natalia lets Nick, Burton and a group of Russian mercenaries (Yuri, Sergei, Alexi, and Pavel) into the club.

The group stop at a farm house to tend to Sergei then proceed to the border which has closed for the night; they stay with their contact, Misha, one of Nick's former Spetsnaz soldiers.