Present Characters
Just a boy from School 20.
Nikolai "Kolya" Gerasimov (Alexei Fomkin)
- Adaptation Rename: Surname changed from Naumov to Gerasimov to not confuse with Ilya Naumov (Fima).
Fima Korolev (Ilya Naumov)
- Conspiracy Theorist: Fima suspects that the Time Police will be after Kolya.
- Fat Best Friend: Fima is type A, in fact he leads to Kolya finding the time Machine in the first place.
- The Lancer: To Kolya.
- Snooping Little Kid: He is stalking the woman in the beginning of the series.
- Temporal Paradox: Fima is worried about such occurrences.
Like a sister to Alisa.
Yulia Gribkova (Marianna Ionesyan)
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Explains that in the future, when scientists invent technology to travel in space and time, they will name the technology as it was named in Science Fiction works.
- Moe Couplet: With Alisa.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: With Alisa, and the girlier of the pair.
Marta Erastovna the physical education teacher (Natalia Varley)
- Badass Teacher: Throws Jolly U out a second-story window.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: A Lighter and Softer version.
Yulia's grandmother (Ludmila Arinina)
- Agent Scully: Does not believe in space pirates and time travel, but does accept that Alisa is in danger.
Doctor Alik Borisovich (Georgi Burkov)
Alla Sergeevna the English teacher (Yekaterina Vasilieva)
Shurochka the nurse (Maria Sternikova)
The other schoolchildren
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Dawson Casting: Averted Trope. All the child actors are around 12 or 13. - Huge Schoolgirl: Albina Fetisova is distinctly taller than the other girls.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: Albina Fetisova.
- Mouthy Kid: Kolya Sadovsky butts into Alisa and Yulia's conversation with Kolya Gerasimov, and boasts that if he met space pirates, he'd shoot them with a laser.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. Three Kolyas: Kolya Sulima, Kolya Sadovsky, and Kolya Gerasimov.
The eyewitness
Future Characters
The guest from the future.
Alisa Seleznyova (Natalia Guseva)
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Alisa is blonde in the books, but Natalia Guseva is a brunette.
- Always Someone Better: Better in class than any of the other students.
- Fake Shemp: When she speaks English, the camera quickly cuts away from her face to the rest of her class. Her voice was dubbed over by the daughter of an English diplomat at the British Embassy in Moscow.
- Friend to All Living Things: Is first seen petting a crocodile at the Kosmozoo.
- Kid from the Future: Discussed Trope. She tells Yulia "Maybe I'm your granddaughter," but is probably joking.
- Omniglot: "I'm not an expert. I only know eight languages." (Russian plus English, French, Spanish, Czech, Finnish, Hindi, Chinese, and Japanese.)
- Spell My Name With An S: Alice or Alisa?
The Pirates, Jolly U (Vyacheslav Nevinny) and Rat (Mikhail Kononov)
- Fat and Skinny: Jolly U and Rat, respectively
- Fat Bastard: Jolly U. Vyacheslav Neviny would eventually die from diabetes.
- Hugh Mann: Their movements are stiff and their voices may randomly become deep or scratchy.
- Sealed Evil In A Cargo Container
- Shapeshifting: They can appear as anyone whom they have seen.
A romantic at heart.
Werther the robot (Yevgeny Gerasimov)
- Berserk Button: Being called a tin can. "I am a biorobot, and nobody has ever insulted me like that!"
- Composite Character: Fulfills the role of several aliens from the book.
- Space Clothes: A silver jumpsuit.
- Spell My Name With An S: Verter or Werther?
- Super-Strength: Lifts the pirates and throws them with ease.
Polina (Yelena Metyolkina)
- Book Ends: She appears at the beginning and end of the Mini Series.
- Force Field: Protects her from the pirates' weapons.
- Space Clothes: At the end, she wears a silver jumpsuit.
Professor Seleznyov (Yuri Grigoryev)
Grandfather Pavel (Vladimir Nosik)
The Time Institute scientists, Ivan Sergeevich (Boris Shcherbakov), Gogi (Ruben Simonov), Maria (Yelena Tsyplakova)
- Fur Bikini: On the woman in Stone Age costume.
- Wig, Dress, Accent: One in a toga went to Alexandria, one dressed as a marquis, and one dressed in furs with a club.
The future schoolchildren
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Values Dissonance: By our standards, schoolchildren making and launching their own satellite would be ludicrous. By 2084 standards, it is normal.
