The Best Episodes Directed By Pavel Kostomarov

Discovering someone missing, the caravan doubles back and comes upon a good samaritan ... and some horrifying children. The disease reaches the group.

Marriage vows make new beginnings. Ira exposes damning secrets from Anna's diary. Pavel grapples with hard choices. A happy reunion is short-lived.

Strangers, both kind and cruel, change the journey's course, and romance blooms in unexpected places. An angry mob causes chaos and a tragic mistake.

After Boris prays, a blessing arrives — along with more heartbreak. Ira and Sergey struggle with their secret. Safe havens prove anything but.

As a contagious illness, panic and looting ravage Moscow, a thrown-together band of families and neighbors forms a shaky alliance for survival.

Sparks fly between Polina and Misha. A brutal attack puts a life at risk. Some shelter in the storm is shaken by a horrifying discovery next door.

The group's frantic escape is disrupted by a costly mistake and human threats. Karma acts quickly after a betrayal, and a final destination is chosen.

An infection leads to a house divided, and a line is crossed by Ira and Sergey. Flashbacks reveal pain in Sergey, Polina and Marina's pasts.

Nine days before the group's death, the hikers pass through a small village where they learn about the region's Indigenous Mansi people, who have named the mountain they're headed toward the Dead Mountain.

The hikers search for a strange figure in the woods and take him back to camp; Zolotarev is suspicious of the new guy.

As the hikers prepare for ascension, an ominous wind engulfs them, followed by an astonishing sight in the sky; perplexed, the group begins to remember the words of the Mansi locals before receiving one more warning.

The group reaches the pass and sets up camp. As the night progresses, the conditions worsen and their struggle becomes unthinkable. Each harrowing detail fills in the puzzle pieces of what really happened to the Dyatlov hikers.