Maxim Rashkovsky

Background

Professor Maxim Rashkovsky is a Russian scientist who once led research for the army. He holds three doctorates and has worked in genetics, weapons development and engineering, and he is an avid car enthusiast. Together with Dima Popov he owned the pharmaceutical company behind the Humane Labs and Research facility. Agent 14 describes him as brilliant but vain, controlling and "definitely not a people person." He is voiced by William Popp and was added with the Heists update (1.21) in March 2015.

Role in GTA Online

By 2013 Rashkovsky is locked up in Bolingbroke Penitentiary on espionage charges. Agent 14 admits the professor is guilty but says he is needed for a later operation. In The Prison Break setups the crew recovers his red Casco from the Port of Los Santos and eliminates his former business partner and two lawyers working against him. In the finale the crew breaks him out of Bolingbroke and he flees the country by plane, using a Velum as the getaway aircraft.

His value becomes clear in The Humane Labs Raid: the schematics he supplied for the facility let Agent 14 and the crew plan their infiltration.

Trivia

• His look is often compared to Walter White of Breaking Bad, though it more likely draws on Cyrus from the film Con Air.
• On PS3 and Xbox 360 he appears bloodied and wearing broken glasses during the breakout; on later versions he is clean and glasses-free.
• Agent 14 hints that he may be headed for Central America after the escape.