49 minSeason 3 • Episode 1
Latest1986. Teenagers are killed one by one in the area of the government dachas on Rublevskoye Shosse. Intelligent investigator Valery Kozyrev, his audacious partner from Rostov Evgeny Bokov and very young investigator Natalia Dobrovolskaya begin the investigation, not even knowing how much it will change the fate of each of them. The only witness capable of identifying the maniac - schoolboy Igor, whose parents are not at all happy about his son's contact with the police.
Acting
Yatsenko's exhausted humanity as Kozyrev anchors every scene.
Production
Painstaking 1986 recreation—dachas, cars, institutional decay feel lived-in.
Writing
Case-of-week structure slowly erodes into systemic rot revelation.
Creators
Lyubov Lvova, Sergey Taramaev, Olga Frenkel, Aleksandr Tsoy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rublevskoye Shosse dachas historically housed Soviet elite—setting crimes among privilege critiques hidden inequality. Real 1980s cases inform procedural details.
Creator Taramaev cited Zodiac and Memories of Murder as influences, but the Soviet bureaucracy's specific lethargy—paperwork, phone tag, institutional rivalry—makes this distinctively Russian.
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