Doctor Pavlysh

Doctor Pavlysh (Russian: Павлыш) is a character in a series of science fiction works of Russian writer Kir Bulychev. Doctor Vladislav Pavlysh is a ship's doctor of the space fleet. In some stories he is the main protagonist, while in others he is a secondary character. He also appears in a number of Bulychev's fanfics.

The prototype of doctor Pavlysh was ship's doctor on the bulk carrier ship Segezha on which Bulychev travelled as a journalist in 1967. Doctor Pavlysh and the spaceship Segezha appear in the first novel of the cycle, The Last War (1970).