Vitali Viktorovich Baganov, born September 6, 1952 in Leningrad, Russia, USSR, 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 Satan's Power. Baganov also voiced Ray Bulgarin in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto IV: 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 USA. 

September 6th, 1952 in Saint Petersburg (Age 71)