The "Kolchak" in question is actually reporter Carl Kolchak, first introduced in the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker as a down-on-his-luck newspaper man in Las Vegas who stumbles upon the story ...

Aleksandr Kolchak is best known as the man who led the White Russian government that opposed the Communists in the revolution and who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1920. But explorers and ...