Nikita Stolyarov

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. The protagonist, a Siberian hunter Gavriil Sobinov, volunteers for the front after learning that his son Semyon, a young lieutenant, is missing. Gavriil wants to fights the enemy and find his son, but instead of the front lines, he finds himself in a supply platoon. He proves himself a hero in his very first combat and, after training at the sniper school, gets to the front lines. Gavriil is made commander of the sniper group. He continues the search for his son. The story of a German sniper Werner develops in parallel. He also ends up at the front with his son Dietrich fighting alongside him. A clash between the sniper fathers, whom fate is inexorably bringing together, is inevitable...

Post-WWII Russia, industrial city of Sverdlovsk. Former opera singer and mother to four children, Nina Levitskaya knows nothing about the fate of her husband. Communist party functionary Alexander disappeared almost a year ago and is now rumored to be in Moscow. With life becoming increasingly hard for the family, Nina decides to risk it all in hope of a reunion. She hastily sells everything she can, gathers her children, and sets out for the capital.

A hockey player who traded friendships for a career in the United States returns home with an incurable disease. He has little time left to atone for his former friends and find peace of mind before the medication that sustains his fight against death runs out. However, a conflict with local gangsters disrupts his plans.

On the threshold of her sixtieth birthday, Tatyana Sergeevna unexpectedly faces a past that she has always tried to forget. It makes her look back and realize what kind of life she lived.

The Investigative and Analytical Department (ACS) is headed by Colonel Andrei Gromov. Employees of the department are engaged in the search for criminals and forensic examination. They study evidence, build an evidence base, interview witnesses, and conduct face-to-face interviews in a high-tech office equipped with the latest technology. Agents can find at the crime scene not only fingerprints, but also traces of electronic devices that were in the area at the time of the murder. In this, the ACS staff is assisted by a mobile "Scanner" laboratory with access to cell towers.

The story of the formation of Soviet intelligence, told through the prism of the fate of its youngest chief - 31-year-old Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin.