Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov is a character in the James Bond film GoldenEye, played by Gottfried John.

Gottfried John as General Ourumov in ‘Goldeneye’.

Biography: By the time the main story from GoldenEye takes place, Ourumov is a General and the Russian head of the space division.

Previously, he was a former Soviet Colonel in charge of a Russian chemical weapons factory in the pre-title sequence. It is there that he interrupts Bond and Alec Trevelyan in the middle of a mission, shoots Trevelyan in the head and nearly captures Bond, who nurtures a grudge against the Colonel for years later, believing that he killed his partner and friend.

The shooting is staged though; Trevelyan lives and becomes an international terrorist and thief called “Janus.” He employs the now-General Ourumov, who is in charge of the Severnaya Space Facility in Siberia, to help him steal the GoldenEye satellite. Ourumov accompanies Xenia Onatopp to Severnaya, where she murders all the staff she can find. Ourumov later reports to Dmitri Mishkin, who informs him that the Severnaya incident is the work of Siberian separatists and that only one computer technician, Boris Grishenko, is missing. Mishkin criticises Ourumov for coming to such a fast conclusion when unknown to Ourumov, Natalya Simonova also survives the incident.

Later, upon hearing that Mishkin has Bond and Natalya in custody, Ourumov storms into the cell where Mishkin is interrogating the pair. Ourumov shoots Mishkin using Bond’s gun to make it look like 007 shot Mishkin, and then attempts to kill him and Natalya to make it seem they were killed while trying to escape. Although they both escape, Natalya is captured by Ouromov’s men.

Bond then drives a Russian tank through the streets of St Petersburg following Ouromov’s car, leaving behind a path of destruction. Ourumov boards Trevelyan’s armoured train, taking Natalya with him. Bond parks his tank in the path of the train and brings the train to a halt. Bond boards the train, and after holding Trevelyan and Onatopp at gunpoint, he demands Natalya’s release. Ourumov is killed when Trevelyan and Onatopp make the General into a sacrificial lamb, throwing him in the path of Bond’s AKS-74U so they can escape.

See also:

• Bond henchmen