Vitali Baganov

Vitali Viktorovich Baganov (Виталий Викторович Баганов born September 6, 1952 in Leningrad, Russia, USSR (now Saint Petersburg) is a Russian actor of film and television currently based in the United States who guest starred as Valery the Russian gangster in The Sopranos episode Pine Barrens. He also appeared as Valery in ...To Save Us All from Satans Power. Baganov also voiced Ray Bulgarin in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony.Baganov studied astronomy in Leningrad State University then transferred to the Leningrad State Institute for Theatre, Music and Cinematography. After graduation, he worked at Memorial Lenin Komsomol Theatre and Komissarjevsky Theatre. He was filmed in a number of Soviet films. In 1991 he emigrated to the United States.

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