Tamara watching a boxing match in Las Vegas
Tamara Jikan (Russian: Тамара Ибларда) was the girlfriend of the Russian billionare Yuri Karpov, and is the lover of his pilot Sasha Hoho. After she began dating Yuri, she formed a relationship with his pilot, Sasha. Yuri found out but kept it secret. Tamara drowns when the gate remains open and the tsunami arrives, flooding the ark. She was played by French actor Beatrice Rosen.
Role in the Plot
Tamara Jikan played a pretty prominent role, although she was an innocent girl but she was considered part of the villanious side, the side where all the characters died.
Tamara we see is first attending a boxing match in Las Vegas, since she is the girlfriend of the Russian billionare Yuri Karpov who was managing that fight. Karpov is or was married, but his wife is presumabely deceased and Karpov treats Tamara in a very lusty manner and barely has any true romnatic feeling for her. Jikan gets plastic boobs, simply because Yuri Karpov wanted her to and because she would look more attractive in his eyes.
When the disasters are ensuing, Karpov is revealed to own an Antanov An-500, a small plane that would carry survivors and keep them safe from the hell taking place on the ground for some time. Tamara and Karpov are later met and encountered in Las Vegas by the group of American survivors from Los Angeles, Jackson Curtis, his ex-wife Kate, their children Noah and Lilly and Kate's boyfriend who were on-board a smaller craft, but needed a bigger one capable to travelling to China, their destination goal which contained Arks, well-built ships that would carry survivors and on the sea and withstand the tsunamis and is only accessible to people with green cards.
The Antanov An-500 is set flying, and a time of bonding occurs between the group of Russian survivors and the group of American survivors. Tamara plays the role of a mother, and takes care of Yuri's kids. Yuri spends time bragging about Russia and Russians. Tamara also falls in love with Yuri's attractive pilot Sasha Hoho. As more bonding between Tamara and Sasha occur, she begins to hate Yuri more and tells Sasha that he is "...one thousand times the man Yuri is". Yuri catches this, but keeps reactions to himself and locked.
As they fly over a frozen wasteland in China, the Antanov An-500 begins breaking down, forcing the group to eject from the shuttle - under the notion that they had to swim, but there was no need since the ground was of solid snow, ice and rock. Sasha tells the group they have to leave, but Tamara does not to leave him but does so anyway saddened by it. Sasha lets go of the cargo, as tons of cars made in Russia come falling out of the shuttle with the survivors in one of them. The shuttle stops at the edge of an icy cliff, but falls down and is destroyed in a fiery explosion, killing Sasha. Tamara was terrified and in a mental state of complete devastation.
The group sees Chinese helicopters carrying animals en route to the Arks. To make matters worse for Tamara, a vengeful Yuri leaves her and the Americans behind and revealed to her that he knew what was going on between him and Sasha pissing her off even more.
Luckily, a Chinese family driving by rescues the group and Nima, the driver urges his brother Tenzin to take the Curtis family, Gordon and Tamara along as they stowaway to Ark 4 and gain access through its chambers. As they stowaway, Tamara notices Yuri and his kids along the angry crowd of people possessing green cards. She flicks him off and ventures into the chamber, which is housing the animals brought in by the Chinese army. In Ark 4, the departure is delayed after Adrian Helmsley, the American geologist who studied this convinces the other commanders to let all of the people in. As they do, an impact driver becomes stuck in one of the ship's hydraulic doors amid the arrival of a huge mega tsunami.
Death
Although Tamara made it this far, she would meet her unfortunate downfall 3/4 of the way safety. Because of the impact driver, the emergency doors around the survivors close seperating everybody, with Jack, Noah and Tenzin's family on one compartment. leaving Tamara and Lilly in the other. As the other door is about to slide shut, she hoists Lilly and her dog, Ceasar to the next compartment leaving her stuck in the middle. As the tsunami arrives, her compartment quickly begins to fill up with water as she struggles in terror, while an animal on top innocently and helplessly watches her drown - and she is no longer seen in the film after that.