Eight seasons of Soviet border guards staring intensely at empty forests. Somehow addictive.
Season 8 • Episode 2
LatestFrom 1917 to the end of the 1980s, Soviet border guards are stationed on the territory of the USSR from the Far East to the western borders.
Production
Massive scope spanning decades and thousands of kilometers of USSR border.
Costume
Authentic Soviet military uniforms that scream 'I have paperwork to file.'
Andrei Alyoshin
Valeriy Belov
Natalya Lapina
Tatyana Goronova
Igor Slobodskoy
Aziz
Sergey Martynov
Aleksandr Lobadyuk
Viktor Koreshkov
Gordeev
Aleksandr Mikhaylichenko
Shipov
Mircea Soțchi-Voinicescu
Tagir
Sergei Desnitsky
Bleyk
Viktor Kostromin
Sapozhnikov
Aleksei Kolesnik
Tereschenko
Aleksandr Khachatryan
Dzhavad
Leonid Yevtifyev
Lukonin
Taras Kirejko
Orlov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was peak Soviet television—a state-funded love letter to border guards that ran from 1980 to 1988, literally as the USSR was crumbling.
The show was so popular that actual Soviet border guards reportedly complained their real service wasn't nearly as dramatic.
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