Semjon Persunov

A young man trapped in an endless time loop at the Sovenok pioneer camp. Aware of the artificiality of his world and the futility of his existence, he passes the time by alternating between fits of philosophical apathy and acts of incredible, inventive, and often absurdly comical cruelty towards the camp's inhabitants. He is intelligent, observant, and possesses encyclopedic knowledge gleaned from the local library, but his sanity has long been eroded by eternal loneliness.