Illya Kuryakin

Illya Kuryakin's History

Illya Kuryakin is a Russian KGB spy who teams up with Napoleon Solo and Gaby Teller to stop a possible nuclear war. He is an extremely strong gentleman.

Biography

Illya Kuryakin was born in Moscow on July 25, 1931. His father was a high-ranking member of the Communist Party, until he was caught embezzling Party funds around 1941 or 1942 and was sentenced to the gulag in Siberia. After that, it is stated that Illya's mother "became very popular with [his] father's former friends" which implies either that she was sleeping around or became as a de-facto prostitute.

Some time after that, Illya was the youngest man to ever join the KGB and became their best agent within three years.

On June 10, 1963, Illya tried and failed to prevent Napoleon Solo from taking Gaby Teller out of East Berlin. This more or less resulted in the two of them being assigned as partners for a mission in Rome.

After their mission in Rome, Illya followed U.N.C.L.E. and his team to Istanbul, where they presumably remained until at least the first of September.