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!!Алиса Селезнёва (Alisa/Alice Seleznyova)
* ActionGirl: She is athletic and lithe and has quick reactions, and her adventures involve many high-speed chases, some fights, and even piloting a military plane.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: She keeps her golden blond hair only in ''Animation/TheMysteryOfTheThirdPlanet''. In ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture'' and ''The Rusty Lieutenant's Island'', her hair is dark, ''Animation/AlicesBirthday'' makes her a FieryRedhead, and in ''Film/OneHundredYearsAhead'', her hair is dyed pink.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Though she is often sarcastic, ''Animation/AlicesBirthday'' makes her outright rude. Especially noticeable is her dismissive behavior towards a CanonForeigner kid who offers to help her: in the books, Alice is always nice to younger children.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: She is always quite nice, but ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture'' makes her practically an angel on Earth, removing even the small quarrels she has with other characters.
* BadassAdorable: She looks a sweet, cute child, but don't you mess with her or her friends.
* BoyishShortHair: Wears her hair short in the books, as well as in most of the adaptations.
* ChildProdigy: Downplayed; she is believed to be a supergirl in the 20th century, but in her own time all kids are extremely smart and she stands out less than, say, Arkasha or Masha Belaya. She is more famous for her adventures.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: If she hears somebody's in trouble, she won't rest until she helps out.
* DaddysGirl: She spends much more time with her father than with her mother and plans to follow in his footsteps.
* FamedInStory: In the later books, she is well-known around the galaxy.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: When she goes to another time (most often it's the 20th century or the legend era).
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Easily makes friends with every sentient being and every animal, and sometimes understands animal psychology better than her father, a cosmobiology professor. She plans on doing research on animal mind later in her life.
* ForgetsToEat: If her father and the family robot didn't keep watch, she would be forgetting her breakfast in her zeal for research and/or adventure.
* GenkiGirl: In the early books, such as ''Literature/TheVoyageOfAlice''. Later on, she calms down and becomes the [[RedOniBlueOni Blue Oni]] to Pasha Geraskin's Red Oni.
* GirlinessUpgrade: She is much more gentle and feminine in ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture'' than in the books. For example, she first appears wearing a dress, while in the books she is only mentioned as wearing dresses and skirts when in disguise (for example, posing as a princess in ''Literature/AMillionAdventures'').
* HonoraryPrincess: She's awarded the title of Princess on the planet 5-4.
* KidHero: An embodiment of the trope. So much that Kir Bulychev didn't want to age her up.
* LittleMissBadass: She is quite skilled in surviving ''all'' sorts of adventures, and she is never older than thirteen throughout the series.
* PetBabyWildAnimal: Her favorite pet is Brontya, a brontosaurus from Cosmozo whom she befriends when she is around five and he is a newborn (she figures out what rations he will like). She visits him regularly and is very sad when he is sent to Scotland, to a different establishment called Paleozo specifically for the formerly extinct fauna. She still visits him there, even though she can't do it as often as before.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: A mild and benevolent version. She occasionally uses the fact she's the director's daughter to get close to some of Cosmozo's closely-guarded animals, and she once uses her connections at the Institute of Time to arrange a tour to the Pleistocene for herself and her friends.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Less so than Geraskin, but still. For example, she uses a time machine without permission to save a planet from the space plague.
* SpaceClothes: Often depicted wearing them in the adaptations and illustrations. Less so in the actual books.
* SweetPollyOliver: In ''Dangerous Fairytales'', she disguises herself as Aladdin.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She is mostly tomboyish but doesn't look down on feminine stuff, it's just that it's not high on her priorities.
* TookALevelInDumbass: In ''Twilightsons the Vampire'', she has apparently forgotten the precautions one needs to take if one's enemy is a shapeshifter, even though chronologically (judging by the fact that Brontya is relocated from Cosmozo to Paleozo) the story is clearly set at least after ''Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead'' where Alice's ProperlyParanoid attitude helped her survive the pirates’ plots.
* VagueAge: Thanks to the author forgetting it, and also to messing with time (once she accidentally became two weeks younger, and then another time ''six months'' younger). Chronologically, at her first appearance she's around three (in the first short story collection featuring her), and in the last books she is around twelve or thirteen.
* WillNotTellALie: Especially in the early books. Her later (and more dangerous) adventures taught her to soften that principle a little.

!!Профессор Игорь Селезнёв (Professor Igor Seleznyov)
Alice's father, one of the first cosmozoologists on Earth.
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Sometimes he might not notice important plot points because he's entirely absorbed in some breakthrough in biology.
* CharacterNarrator: He narrates several of the franchise's early stories (most notably, ''Literature/TheVoyageOfAlice'').
* InformedAbility: He is supposed to be a brilliant cosmobiologist, but when he appears, he often makes huge mistakes or is unable to solve some biological problem, leaving Alice to deal with it. Most glaringly, he doesn't realize that [[spoiler:the diamond turtle]] is a robot and that [[spoiler:Shusha and the golden bear cub]] are sapient (at least [[spoiler:the golden bear cub]] is a master of disguise, but [[spoiler:Shusha]] doesn't even feign nonsapience).
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: If you consider that the medicine of the future can heal everything, his glasses are an example.

!!Кира Селезнёва (Kira Seleznyova)
Alice's mother, an architect.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The one time she is a major character occurs in ''Alice and the Enchanted King''. Even then, it's mostly to provide Alice with a case of ParentsInDistress.
* MissingMom: She works abroad (meaning on different planets) and very rarely appears in person.

!! Бабушка Лукреция (Granny Lucretia)
Alice's great-aunt, a stage magician.
* DeadpanSnarker: Whenever you want to poke fun at that harmless fussing old lady, she'll poke fun at you instead.
* InSeriesNickname: Called the Simferopol Granny by her relatives.
* GenreSavvy: Not only does she cheerfully and knowingly subvert the GrannyClassic trope, but she is also aware she is in a sci-fi/adventure book series. In ''Literature/TheWarWithLilliputians'', when she and Puccini-2 [[spoiler:rescue Alice from the desert rabbits]], she explains that they did it [[spoiler:at the last moment]] because that’s how it’s done in an adventure novel.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Some of her tricks, like traveling through space without any sort of vessel, are quite inexplicable.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's an expert in fencing, acrobatics, magic tricks, chemistry, technology, and veterinary medicine.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With her friend/colleague/enemy/a mix of all three, a magician with the stage name Puccini-2. At some points, a bystander can easily think the two are engaged in mortal combat.
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[[folder:Friends of Alice]]
!!Громозека (Gromozeka)
An archaeologist from the planet Chumaroz, a close friend of the Seleznyov family. A huge creature with three legs, multiple eyes and arms, and a short trunk.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While not exactly pretty in the adaptations, there isn't one that kept his original, borderline EldritchAbomination form. In particular, he always has two eyes rather than several rows of many small ones, has two legs instead of three and a large nose instead of a trunk.
* AmusingAlien: Provides comic relief in every book he appears in.
* GentleGiant: He's one of the largest and nicest characters of the series.
* RescueIntroduction: He met Professor Seleznyov when the latter saved his life in the jungles of the planet Euridice.
* StarfishAliens: Oh so much. Lots of tentacles, three hearts, enormous size... he's just different in every way you can think of.

!!Рррр (Rrrr)
An archaeologist from the planet Brastak who befriends Alice in ''Alice's Birthday''. Looks like a one-eyed tailless kitten.
* AdaptationalJerkass: In ''Animation/AlicesBirthday'', he is often condescending and sarcastic towards Alice, quite different from his timid and polite self in the books. Somewhat justified, since in the film, their acquaintance starts on an unpleasant note with Alice first [[MistookTheDominantLifeform mistaking him for an actual kitten]], and then accidentally spraying him with foul-smelling vaccine.
* BadassBookworm: Being an archeologist, he participated in a dangerous mission in the past to save the extinct inhabitants of a planet, and lately, participated in the rebellion of his folk against space invaders. But again, he doesn't like it much.
* CatFolk: Kitten folk, to be precise. The brastaks look exactly like the kittens of Earth, except with no tail and one large eye.
* InnocentBlueEyes: In a literal sense. On Brastak, eye color reflects a person's character, and blue and grey mean the best. Rrrr's eye is blue.

!!Павел "Пашка" Гераскин (Pavel "Pashka" Geraskin)
Alice's classmate and best friend who also works with her on the research station.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In ''Literature/AMillionAdventures'', he wants to go to a medieval world and does happen to acquire a passage into one. He barely escapes execution for being too honorable for the local feudals' morals. Subverted, as he is delighted with the entire journey and it does nothing to cool his adventurous nature.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: He regrets that he's born in such a civilized era and not in the golden age of knighthood.
* BrilliantButLazy: He has many amazing ideas, but rarely enough patience to think them through and analyze the possible consequences. Cue, for example, the mosquito/goose hybrid (see below).
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Much like ''Literature/DonQuixote'', he adamantly believes himself to be the hero of a medieval romance.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Only too frequently. For example, in ''Literature/AMillionAdventures'', he decides to make mosquitoes migratory so that they would leave for the polar regions in summer. His solution is to make a mosquito/goose hybrid. He doesn't, however, foresee that the thing will also be the ''size'' of a goose...
* RedOniBlueOni: Even Alice, quite the idealist and rule-breaker, seemed rational and careful compared to him.
* ShipTease: There are hints of it between him and Alice. For example, in ''The War with Liliputians'', Alice gets jealous when Zauri admits she likes Pashka, and Zauri teasingly says that Alice likes him herself.

!! Аркадий "Аркаша" Сапожков (Arkadiy "Arkasha" Sapozhkov)
Alice's classmate and good friend, also works on the research station. The most bookish one of the company.
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Absorbed in his research, he tends to get pretty forgetful.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: He is insanely protective of nature, on Earth or any other planet.
* HypocriticalHumor: One day, he decides it's barbarous to pick mushrooms because they feel the pain, and tries to talk his friends out of it. His friends reply that they'll stop picking mushrooms on the day he stops eating bread (because wheat is sensitive too, right?) and wolfing down tomatoes and pineapples.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He has a brother called Boris, eight years younger than him, who shares his interest in science. [[Creator/StrugatskyBrothers Sounds familiar]]?

!!Ирия Гай (Iria Gai)
A beautiful ActionGirl from the planet Vester, now living in Poland with her husband and daughter.
* ActionMom: She's an expert in martial arts and shooting. Also she's a doting wife and mother and TeamMom if necessary.
* ExtraDigits: Has six toes on both feet, a sign of her Vesterian origins..
* HappilyMarried: With Tadeusz Sokol.
* LazilyGenderFlippedName: Iria Gai is a daughter of an inventor who wanted a son as an assistant. He wanted to name him Iriy.
* WantedASonInstead: Raised as a boy because her father wanted one.

!! Гай-до (Gai-do)
Iria's little sentient spaceship. Considers himself her brother (his name means "The Brother of Gai").
* CoolUncle: Towards Iria's little daughter, whom he adores. Not officially related, since he is a spaceship, but he thinks of her as his niece.
* InsufferableGenius: He is really skilled in many fields, but believes himself a super-expert who never makes mistakes.

!! Робот Поля (Polya the Robot)
The housekeeper robot that belongs to the Seleznyov family.
* ContinuitySnarl: In some of the early books, he is called Grisha.
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[[folder:Enemies of Alice]]
!!Космические пираты Крыс и Весельчак У (Space pirates Krys (Rat) and Jolly U)
* ArchEnemy: They might not be Alice's most dangerous enemies overall, but they certainly are the most famous ones.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In ''The Planet For Tyrants'' Rat states that he can't kill Alice, because if he does, "about whom would Kir Bulychev write his books?"
* CutLexLuthorACheck: One of the books has the two in mid-20th century. Rat works as an "universal actor double" due to his shape-shifting powers. He even contemplated quitting the life of crime and starting an honest actor career in the past.
* EnemyMine: Used to be enemies before the police busted most of their operations. Their current alliance is built on nothing but convenience, and they state openly they'll betray each other without hesitation.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Increasingly in the later books.
** In ''The War with Lilliputians'', both show disdain toward Panchenga's criminal family (slave trade is just the beginning of the list of the latter's crimes).
** In ''The Planet for Tyrants'', Rat says they aren't mad enough to actually set the tyrants free. The tyrants go furious, but the pirates have guns.
* FatAndSkinny: Jolly U is enormously obese. Rat is rather skinny (and he isn't a human at all). Rat is also usually the mastermind in their operations (in the retellings for younger readers, it gets [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] to the point that Jolly U is a DumbMuscle idiot who can hardly add two and two together).
* FriendlyEnemy: Increasingly in the later books, where they are both retired from actual piracy and become "pensioners" (as they put it) on the Pirate Planet. They consider their long conflict with Alice as some point of pride, and even help her on some occasions. But they're still pretty ready to do mischief in the galaxy, albeit generally less cruel than before.
* InsectoidAliens: Rat's true form. Four limbs, two insect wings, and a stinger tail.
* JokerImmunity: They are too fixed in the plot as Alice's old enemies to get killed off. It's practically spelled out in ''The Dinosaurs' Kids'', where Alice saves Jolly U's life (without him realizing it) and later concludes she will never cease to fight them.
* LastOfHisKind: Rat is from a race that all but destroyed itself in constant warfare with each other. Subverted later when his mother appears or gets mentioned in several books, and some other members of his race are still rumored to have survived, hiding from each other in underground shelters.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Rat’s default human form is that of a short, thin man with a plain and easily forgettable face. The "forgettable" part, of course, is the key point.
* TermsOfEndangerment: They sometimes use pet names when addressing Alice. It leans towards actual AffectionateNickname in later books.
* SpacePirates: Probably the TropeCodifier in Russian media.
* VillainDecay: In the first books they shown as rather ruthless, cold-blooded murderers, perfectly willing to use torture and destroying the population of entire planets just to protect their secrets. The second appearance states them to be just as bad, but they get relatively little opportunity to demonstrate. These villainous traits quickly got downplayed in later books, turning them mostly into ineffectual sympathetic villains. And in even later books they are portrayed as FriendlyEnemy, albeit still with some old habits.
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Rat. Well, in some stories. Others have him simply using disguise. And others attribute the shape-shifting powers to special drugs, so basically anyone could shapeshift using them.
* StarfishLanguage: All consonants.
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See also the lists of non-recurring characters for separate books:
** ''[[Characters/TheVoyageOfAlice The Voyage Of Alice]]''
** ''[[Characters/TheCityWithoutMemory The City Without Memory]]''