Radzhabali Khuseynov

On the edge of Dushanbe, in the Republic of Tajikistan, a quiet border checkpoint under Russian control is attacked by Afghans and Tajiks who want it under their control.

1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.

Based on real events that took place during the construction of the Nurek hydroelectric power station, where a new form of socialist competition, “Workers' Relay Race,” was born.

Mira returns home to Dushanbe from Russia to visit her father, a wastrel who is completely addicted to a game called "odds and evens," or Kosh ba Kosh. When another player comes to collect on gambling debts and finds nothing of value, he sets his sights on Mira.

About how Soviet border guards managed to detect and neutralize foreign intelligence agents.

In the besieged town of Khojent, famine begins. The leaders of the revolutionary committee, Kozyrev, Sattar, and Alim, with the help of the chief mullah of the mosque, Abdulrahman-khan, win over the local residents, defeat a group of bandits, and bring back bread to the starving people.

Four swindlers - Kamol-aka, Gafur, Gafar, and Murodi - set up a marriage bureau at a photo studio. The first grooms appear, and soon a well-known horseman, Saidbek, becomes a client of the bureau. He wants to marry Malika, but she rejects him. The swindlers kidnap the girl.

The end of the thirteenth century. The envoy of the Golden Horde - Mengu-Temir, a handsome and connoisseur of female beauty arrives in the capital of Russia. He came to steal thousands of Russian soldiers into the Horde, but he is ready to be content with only a part if Grand Duke Yaroslav returns the princess Ustinia, the wife of his brother Boris. Yaroslav is not ready to violate the laws of Faith and Honor, but Boris himself is taking this step, hoping that this sacrifice will ensure him a princely throne. Ustinya with a caravan goes to a foreign land. Mengu leaves Yaroslav a "gift" from the Great Khan - young Nargiz, who awakens the prince to life and puts him before a fateful choice. On one side of the scales - love and passion, on the other - the throne and the life of Nargiz herself, which neither the people nor the lawful wife of Yaroslav accepts.

A girl comes from Uzbekistan to Volgograd to enter medical school. Due to her inexperience, she hastily arranges an internship in Afghanistan and goes there to a military unit.