The Best TV Shows on Zvezda

The year is 1979. The apartment of a famous ballerina has been robbed in Moscow. The housekeeper was killed, the intruders fled. Investigator Anokhin offers his friend, journalist Yeltsov, to help in the search for criminals. At the same time, a high-profile bank robbery is taking place in Yerevan, which is being carried out by a specially released bear swallowtail. At first glance, the two cases seem completely unrelated. Plunging deeper into the investigation, special correspondent Yeltsov realizes that he has found a conspiracy, the bloody threads of which stretch to the highest echelons of power.

MURA operative Konstantin Troshin returns from the front after the victory in the Great Patriotic War and finds out that he no longer works in the police. The reason is a conflict with an influential general of the NKGB of the USSR. But Troshin cannot imagine his life without the police. He manages to get a job as a precinct officer in the most disadvantaged area of Moscow — Maryina Grove.

The year is 1949. Former front-line soldier and former investigator Sergei Gastev departs from investigative activities, faced with an unexpected problem of official mutual assistance. Attempts to restore justice almost end up in prison for himself. Gastev decides to limit his activities to teaching Roman law at the university of a small regional town. In Sergei's personal life, too, everything is not easy: the affair with the city Komsomol leader Lyudmila Mishina has to be carefully hidden...

The operational search group of the Front Counterintelligence Directorate under the leadership of Captain Alyokhin is looking for a sabotage group codenamed "Neman". The group of saboteurs is headed by a German agent Mishchenko, who is well known to Alekhine, whose task is to collect intelligence necessary for the German command to determine the direction of the main attack of the Soviet army. Alekhine and his group, in the course of a wide search, work out one version after another, but each time Mishchenko manages to get away.

During World War II the Red Army sends a special unit named "Zvezda" ("The Star") on a mission to conduct Guerilla warfare against the Germans in the Soviet Union.

1941. Georgy Volkov, Captain of the State Security Service, is delivering to the Soviet Union a consignment of emeralds under a trade agreement between the USSR and Germany.