Khina Sabiri

Khina Sabiri is the lover of Boris Rubabenko. Growing up in the city of Mashhad, in northeastern Iran, Khina lived the life of a street-rat. She stole food to survive and slept with police officers to bribe them. However, once she was abducted into Boris's harem at the Altair base,

Name
"Khina" is a given name that means "song" in Persian. "Sabiri" is a Persian family name. It was chosen because it sounds similar to "Siberia", hence making another connection to her lover, Boris.