Alexander Kovalev

Alexander "Sasha" Kovalev is a Russian cosmonaut aboard, who serves as a Communications officer in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two and the 1984 film adaption. He is played by Jan Tríska.

2010 odyssey
Dr. Kovalev performs Engineering and Communications duties on the Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov during the joint Soviet/USA Jupiter Mission. Its mission is to investigate Discovery and the Jovian Monolith by 2010.