Balalaika [Black Lagoon.]

Due to Balalaika's leadership during the hellish fighting in Afghanistan, her men look up to her as their superior and will do just about anything upon her orders, with Boris being her right-hand man. She always refers to Boris by the title of "Sergeant" and often refers to her other men by their military rank.

Name Balalaika (nickname) Sofia Pavlovna Irinovskaya (real name) V.V. Vladilena (pseudonym) Gender Female Height 180 centimeters Affiliates Pyotr Slevinin (boss) Boris Polanski Menshov Sakharov Jodorowsky Eugene Zamyatin Lazar Daniil Rabochek Feodora Sogor Maskaev David Koslov Tiganov Affiliation Hotel Moscow Vysotniki Former Affiliation Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) Former Affiliates Unnamed uncle Stanislav Kandinsky Weapon Stechkin APS pistol Dragunov sniper rifle (SVD; wartime) Race/Nationality Russian As a combat officer, she is a skilled strategist and well-rounded fighter, capable of taking care of herself despite the fact that all of her troopers, including Boris, often worry for her. Although she has shown herself to be rather cynical on occasion, she is also a pragmatic, opportunistic, and professional businesswoman. She frequently employs Dutch and the Lagoon Company because they share a mutual respect and Balalaika trusts Dutch as a discreet man of integrity. She is also downright ruthless, willing to utilize whatever means to achieve what she wants. As a mafia leader, she has claimed that trust and profit are her concerns, also remarking once that her motivation is to maximize her group's profits and eliminate anyone in the way by any means necessary. On one occasion, Balalaika even admitted that she only lives to bring destruction and dance as long as she can "on the bottom of hell's cauldron." She has no qualms about killing children, although she used to be hesitant to do so during the Soviet-Afghan War because of Afghan children whom she and her men fought in Panjshir. Balalaika regards herself and her men as soldiers who missed their chance to die in Afghanistan.