What do you call a person, who needs to stay active in order to feel comfortable? [duplicate]

I guess the English equivalent of your Russian "awl in the anus" is "ants in your pants". It's almost the same thing, given that in British the primary meaning of 'pants' is not trousers but the things underneath.

However, the British idiom to me suggests impatience rather than permanent hyperactivity.

Which brings us to "hyperactive", which is what we called people back in the days before everybody had a medical condition requiring Big Pharma.

People also used to be called "live wires". Dangerous things as well as beneficial, if you dwell on the metaphor!

Restless:

• (of a person or animal) unable to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom.
• offering no physical or emotional rest; involving constant activity or motion.

Synonyms: uneasy, ill at ease, restive, fidgety, edgy, on edge, tense, worked up, nervous, agitated, anxious, on tenterhooks, keyed up; jumpy, jittery, twitchy, uptight, antsy; sleepless, wakeful; fitful, broken, disturbed, troubled, unsettled

We do use the adjective "driven" for such people: Having a compulsive or urgent quality; a driven sense of obligation - Merriam Webster.

To extend David Pugh's suggestion a little, it's quite common to use "hyper" by itself, which may be less clinical than "hyperactive."

Perhaps there's also "control freak", which is someone who has to keep personal control over events and people around them, much in the way you suggest.

I can't think of an idiom, though, other than David's "live wire", which I like, but perhaps it's not quite as meddlesome as you want.

Perhaps "fidgety" or "a fidget".

Restless.

Less likely: On edge, ill at ease.

One who does it when they are sleeping, is a somnambulist :-).