Career
He was born in Rossosh. That mark, surpassed by current record-holder Jürgen Schult in July 1986, is still the Russian record. A 1980 Olympian, Dumchev also represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South of Korea, finishing in fourth place (6642 m).
Since 1979, he acted in films (more than 50 films).
Dumchev died in Adler, Sochi on February 10, 2016, aged 57.