The investigation was conducted
Season 2
The documentary series investigates the USSR's most sensational criminal cases. Host Leonid Kanevskiy guides viewers through the intricate details of each investigation. Beyond the crimes themselves, the series provides a unique glimpse into Soviet society through narratives of daily life during that period. The series covers the entire Soviet era, from 1917 to 1991.
Where to Watch The investigation was conducted • Season 2
36 Episodes
- Episode 34
E2Episode 34On November 14, 1986, the Molodyozhnyy department store was robbed in Moscow. The largest amount in the history of the police was stolen - 330,000 rubles. Boris Yeltsin personally came to the crime scene. Soon the bandits, who had fled in the car of collectors, were caught up. A shootout ensued, as a result of which one of the raiders died, the second shot himself, and the third, Senior Lieutenant Subachyov, was arrested. - Episode 35
E3Episode 35In 1975, sorters of the State Bank more and more often began to find counterfeit banknotes with a face value of 25 rubles. Banknotes were confiscated throughout the country, in the end, the driver Viktor Baranov was detained, who admitted that it was he who organized the production of counterfeit money in a typographical way in his own barn. - Episode 36
E4Episode 36October 30, 1973. In one of the military units near Leningrad, a sentry was killed, his Kalashnikov assault rifle was stolen. On May 8, 1974, another murder took place in Leningrad using a machine gun. During the investigation of this case, a gang of two people was established - Yuriy Balanovskiy and Andrey Zelenkov. A militia officer was introduced into this gang and his actions made it possible to detain the criminals. - Episode 37
E5Episode 37December 11, 1991. In St. Petersburg, a girl was murdered. The maniac put a red rose into her hand, and scattered the petals from the second such rose around. Two more similar murders were soon committed. The path of the maniac turned out to be short-lived (after 10 days he was arrested), he turned out to be a television master from Moscow, Yuriy Semyonov. - Episode 38
E6Episode 38In 1943, Hitler and Stalin organized assassination attempts on each other. The Soviet intelligence officer Igor Miklashevskiy was sent to Germany, and the converted criminal Pyotr Shilo (Tavrin) was sent to the USSR. Neither one nor the other succeeded in eliminating their goals. - Episode 42
E10Episode 42In the spring of 1991, the body of a girl was found in the courtyard of one of the Moscow houses, which was surprisingly similar to one of the soloists of the Combination group. As it turned out, she and several other girls were a fake group that fraudulently pretended to be the "Combination" group. - Episode 43
E11Episode 43In 1947, a brutal gang appeared in Kazan, robbing and killing their victims. It took years to catch the bandits, the innocent suffered. A gang consisting of some Babaev, Peterin and the Karmakovs was arrested. Three bandits were sentenced to death, and Karmakova received 25 years in prison. - Episode 44
E12Episode 44October 12, 1990, Podolsk. A robbery was committed at the warehouse of the cooperative, the leader of the gang was a girl. During the attack, a security guard was killed. Director of the cooperative Kireev, fearing checks, did not go to the militia, after some time he was sentenced to 2 years for concealing a crime. The thieves were soon arrested. - Episode 45
E13Episode 45In 1924, a bugbear appeared in Petrograd, which easily opened even the most reliable safes. Zhorzhik Chyornenkiy (in the world - Georgiy Aleksandrov) was the leader of a gang that at the beginning of the last century specialized in robbery. It took him a maximum of 35 minutes to crack any safe.
