Season 4 • Episode 60
LatestFormer Special Forces soldier Leonid Zubov works as a forester in the taiga. Together with his associates, he solves crimes related to poaching, illegal entrepreneurship, crime in the territory entrusted to him, and also helps residents of the local village of Olkhovka to deal with emergencies and solve personal problems. Vera Bolshaeva, a rural paramedic, is in love with Zubov, which puts him in front of a difficult question - is he capable of falling in love with another woman after the tragic death of his wife.
Acting
Oleg Stefan's 'sad widowed forester' energy is weirdly compelling.
Production
Actual Russian taiga locations beat any studio backlot.
Writing
Crime-of-the-week structure with serialized will-they-won't-they.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian 'taiga detective' shows exploded post-Soviet era, blending Soviet rural nostalgia with crime procedural formats. Zubov is basically a woodland Columbo with trauma.
Aleksei Buldakov, who played Zubov's associate, was already famous as the drunken general from 'Peculiarities of National Fishing' — Russia's beloved comic franchise.
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