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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Played by Simon Scardifield

Fact title Fact data
Date of birth
1 February 1884
Place of birth
Lebedyan
Age at outbreak of WW1
29
Occupation
Engineer and writer
Address
Sanderson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne

Based on the naval engineer and later renowned dissident writer, Yevgeny Zamyatin is a Russian émigré who finds himself in the shipyards of the Tyne. Well-travelled and sardonic, he is sceptical of Johnnie's socialism, though happy to trade dialectics for a drink.