Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year...

The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt...

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s...

In 1913, chance brings together a young high school teacher Yurkevich, his first love Lida, a wealthy landowner Lundyshev and a German watchmaker...

In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an...

A not-so-young man who likes women tries to organize a girl to his son.

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work...

Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD...

Bureaucrats from a chemical plant in a small industrial town allow the lake to be polluted with waste. An enthusiast in the fight for a clean...

A music student is expeled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to...

Forty-year-old researcher Pavel is still single. And not because he likes to be free and unmarried, but because he is very indecisive - he does not...

A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as...

Crimea, 1787. Despite the Manifesto of the Russian Empress Catherine and the Kuchuk-Kainardzhi peace treaty, which forever united Crimea with...

In the last days of the war after the special task group of the major Gorelov returns to his. Soon tankers learn that fascists are going to blow up...

A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell...

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.

The chief of the airline agency gives the command to the special team not to drink, not to stand in the drafts and not to have contact with the...