Nikolay Vladimirovich Fomenko (, born 30 April 1962) is a Russian musician, comic actor, professional motor racer, former president of Marussia Motors and former engineering director of Marussia F1.
Biography Born in Leningrad on April 30, 1962.
Father - Vladimir Ivanovich Fomenko, physicist-metrologist, who worked for many years at VNIIM. Vladimir Fomenko was one of the developers of homing missiles.
Mother - Galina Nikolaevna Fomenko (nee Fedorova), after her grandmother from the nobility of the Skrypitsins, a ballerina, G. S. Ulanova identified her at the Vaganovsk Choreographic School. Due to a meniscus injury, she was forced to change her profession and became a civil engineer.
He studied at school No. 222, which at that time was re-qualified as the School of the Olympic Reserve. Simultaneously with his studies at school, he studied at the Theater of Youth Creativity (TYuT), played in the symphony orchestra of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers on the first violin.
In 1983 he graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography (LGITMiK). While studying at the institute, he organized the Secret group, a member of the Komsomol. After graduating from the institute, he worked for distribution at the Alexandrinsky Theater.
Since January 1993, he began to live and work in Moscow.
Music career Fomenko started his career as vocalist and guitarist in the band Secret, who were very popular in Russia in the mid-1980s.
Acting career Fomenko first started his acting career as a theater actor in the Theater of Youth Creativity (1974-1976).
Filmography {| class="wikitable" !Year!!Film!!Role |- |1983 |Speed (Skorost''') |Student |- |1997 |Sympathy Seeker (Sirota Kazanskaya) |Kolya |- |1999 |Luna Papa (Lunny Papa) |Yassir |- |1999 |The Sky with Diamonds (Nebo v Almazakh) |Anton Chekhov |- |2000 |Check (Chek) |Brunet |- |2000 |Old Hags (Starye Klyachi) |businessman Vassily Khomenko |- |2003 |The Suit (Shik) |Botya |- |2003 |Bedroom Key (Klyuch ot Spal'ni) |Vakhlakov |- |2007 |Model (Naturshchitsa)
|2007 |Gloss (Глянец)
|2008 |Radio Day (Den' Radio) |As himself |- |2017 |You All Infuriate Me|Boris Dmitrievich |- |2017 |Rock Dog|Angus Scattergood |- |2024 |Others|Leonid Vasilyevich Petrov |- |2024 |Fedya. Narodnyy futbolist|Konstantin Beskov
TV career Fomenko performed in the popular Russian music collection series Staryye Pesni o Glavnom (Old songs about the important).
1997—1998 Empire of Passion (NTV, reruns — TNT, MUZ-TV) — author and host.
He hosted two seasons of a TV show The Interception and a season of the game-show The Weakest Link on Russia's Channel 5.
In 2009, he began hosting Top Gear Russia, the REN-TV spin-off of the BBC series Top Gear''.
Car racing career In 1994, Fomenko was invited by Vladislav Listyev to participate in a car racing show as a celebrity guest. Later he started to train as a professional racer and took his first victory in 1996.
FIA GT
YearTeamCar№ClassCo-driversPointsPos.2000Freisinger MotorsportPorsche 996 GT3-R58N-GT Alexey Vasilyev0—2001Freisinger RacingPorsche 996 GT3-R59N-GT Alexey Vasilyev Richard Kaye0—2002RWS MotorsportPorsche 996 GT3-R77N-GT Alexey Vasilyev Antonio García Jesus Diez Villaroel1262003RWS Yukos MotorsportPorsche 996 GT3-R77N-GT Alexey Vasilyev Adam Jones Stephane Daoudi17142004Freisinger Yukos MotorsportPorsche 996 GT3-RSR77N-GT Alexey Vasilyev267Cirtek MotorsportPorsche 996 GT3-RS73 Adam Jones John Grant Vic Rice2005Russian Age RacingFerrari 550 Maranello17; 18GT1 Alexey Vasilyev Christophe Bouchut Jamie Campbell-Walter Nicolas Minassian519
Endurance races
YearRaceTeamCarClassCo-driversPos.200324 Hours of DaytonaRWS MotorsportPorsche 996GTS Alexey Vasilyev, Patrick Bourdais Walter Lechner Jr., Tetsuya Tanaka28 (9)200424 Hours of Le MansFreisinger MotorsportPorsche 911 GT3-RSRLMGT Alexey Vasilyev, Patrick BourdaisDNF200524 Hours of Le MansCirtek Motorsport/Russian Age Racing/Convers TeamFerrari 550-GTS MaranelloLMGT1 Alexey Vasilyev, Christophe Bouchut17 (5)
Car manufacturer Fomenko is involved in the development and launching of the Marussia sports car.
Formula One In 2010 Marussia became a sponsor of Virgin Racing Formula One team. On 11 November 2010, Marussia acquired a controlling stake in the team.
On 2 February 2011 Fomenko was announced as Engineering Director of the Marussia Virgin Racing Formula One team.
Personal life He was married to Andrei Mironov's stepdaughter, actress Maria Golubkina, and has three children: daughters Anastasia and Ekaterina, and a son, Ivan.
References
External links Official site
Nikolai Fomenko at http://www.fiagt.com