Age: 52
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Yevgeniy Kartashov (also credited as Evgeniy Kartashov) is a Russian actor and stunt professional known for his rugged screen presence and his specialization in high-stakes action and crime dramas. He achieved significant international visibility for his role as a Prison Guard in the fourth season of the Netflix global hit Stranger Things (2022), where he contributed to the authentic, gritty atmosphere of the Kamchatka prison storyline. Kartashov's career is defined by his versatility in portraying authoritative, often formidable characters, a skill he has honed across a variety of Eastern European and international productions. His credits include roles in the intense drama The Road to Calvary (2017) and the crime series The Method, where he established himself as a reliable performer capable of delivering both physical intensity and understated dramatic depth.
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
