Russian TV series about the USSR

List of the best Russian TV series about the USSR, selected by visitors of our site: Intercessors, За час до рассвета, Russian Beauty, Fartsa, Невский, Beryozka, Оттепель, 80's, Великая война, Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes.

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Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryRussia

1966. Nina Metlitskaya, a young lawyer, is moving from a small-scale legal consultation in the far Moscow region to Branch No. 1 — the strongest law office of the Soviet Union. Now she has to prove that she was not here by chance.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama
CountryRussia
Duration09:00

The beauty of a simple country girl Katerina Panova conquered the world. She became the face of Soviet fashion of the 60s and the first fashion model recognized in the West. Paris and Prague applauded the Russian beauty, the press called it "the national treasure of the USSR", and at home Soviet reality, envy, intrigue, jealousy and tragic love awaited her.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration02:46

An epic saga which takes place over a long time span from 1961 to 1991. From the midpoint of the story we view the friendship of four boys. In season main heroes are in their 20's, they are childhood friends, and for the sake of their friendship they are ready to sacrifice anything. Everyone has their own dreams, but their circumstances will take them on a difficult path and they will be forced into all kinds of underground economic dealings in the early 60s. And, worst of all - they are successful in this business. And the more successful they are, the further they get from their real dreams.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genremelodrama
CountryRussia
Duration00:37

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryRussia
Duration00:55

The series is set in 1961. Cameraman Viktor Khrustalyov is in a difficult situation; he is suspected of being involved in the death of his friend, talented screenwriter Kostya Parshin, who committed suicide during a drinking-bout. The authorities try to put Khrustalyov in prison by any means. Viktor needs to shoot the comedy "The Girl and the Brigadier" in order to get permission to make the film "Shards" after the wonderful scenario left from his deceased screenwriter friend. Young director Yegor Myachin wants to adаpt this screenplay. Khrustalyov arranges him as a trainee to the venerable director Krivitsky for a comedy. In the same film act Khrustalev's ex-wife Inga and his young sweetheart Maryana, with whom Yegor Myachin is also in love.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia
Duration00:25

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Markimdb: 8.6
Genredocumentary, military, history
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 5
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryRussia

The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. As she gradually settles into a routine, Zuleikha starts to get to know her companions. The eclectic group includes a rather dotty doctor, an artist who paints on the sly, and Ignatov, Zuleikha's husband's killer. A screen version of the best-selling novel by Guzel Yakhina.

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Genredetective
CountryRussia
Duration00:49

Shorty after the 1917 Russian Revolution, during the New Economic Policy era, a criminal becomes a police officer through a case of mistaken identity and uses his knowledge to solve cases previously out of reach of the force.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration17:20

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, drama, detective
CountryUSA

In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

Markimdb: 8.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:00

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

For decades, childhood best friends Kate and Tully have weathered life's storms together -- until a betrayal threatens to break them apart for good.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, thriller
CountryRussia

While the whole country is watching the 1980 Olympics, strange things are happening at one summer camp on the Volga river. Children mysteriously disappear at night, and then return - but not at all the same as before. Carried away by summer freedom and each other, the counselors do not notice how scary urban myths come to life, and the camp leadership pretends that everything is in order. Two boys take it upon themselves to figure out the mysteries. To begin with, they have to figure out if there is at least someone left in the camp who can be trusted.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryRussia
Duration12:48

Children of the Arbat is a 16-part television serial based on the Children of the Arbat trilogy by Anatoly Rybakov. It aired on the Channel One network in Russia in 2004. The series closely follows the plot of Rybakov's trilogy. Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov, a student and loyal Komsomol member from the Arbat neighborhood of Moscow who is unfairly exiled to Siberia. As his family and friends, including his love interest Varya Ivanova, grapple with Sasha's sudden detention and departure, the series shows the growing fear and paranoia that gripped Moscow in the years before the murder of Sergey Kirov and the start of Stalin's Great Purge.

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Genredrama, military
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 4.6
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryRussia

1940. Three little boys find mysterious package from another dimension including the potion allowing the human beings live much longer they do. One of them suddenly dies in the river while others drank the potion. Now they are able to live million more years but still they will never forget what happened with their friend.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryRussia
Duration02:01

Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryRussia
Duration13:20

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Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryRussia

The year is 1993. 14-year-old Alex Ryabinin lives a normal teenage life - looking for adventure, trying to protect himself from hooligans, does not want learn music, does not know how to meet girls and which adults to follow as an example. On the one hand - an honest but poor family with a saleswoman mother and a father who is a docent, on the other - the dangerous world of an Afghan veteran Uncle Alik. And there's also the girl Zhenya, whose encounter triggers a series of irreversible events that will forever change the life of Alex. Running away from hooligans, Alex steals a car of local criminal authority, and in an instant everything changes. Will he be able to cope with all the problems, being in the heart of events? Will he be able to save his family and finally understand who he is? Only one thing is clear - life will never be the same again. Not for Alex himself, nor for the whole of Russia.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:00

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, detective, military, history
CountryRussia

Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. The more he learns, the more it becomes clear: the reason the students died will never see the light of day.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, history
CountryRussia
Duration02:33

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:08

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Genrethriller, fantasy
CountryRussia

The picture unfolds in an alternative history at the beginning of the 20th century. The monarchy of Europe and the higher nobility consist of those who hide their true origin and secretly rule the world. The young anarchist Karamora, who lost her beloved in a fight with representatives of a secret organization, decides to challenge the centuries-old rule of the nobility, avenge lost love and try to change the world. Gathering like-minded people, he declares war.

Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRussia

A witty drama about growing up and self-actualization that makes you want to not only laugh out loud, but also shazam every track.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrebiography
CountryRussia

Investigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in the 1990s were not found. Or didn’t you want to? Or found, but silent? Rodion decided to conduct his investigation. He wants to know the name of the customer. Six months of work, dozens of interviews with colleagues, friends and relatives of Listyev, investigators who conducted the case. And everyone answers the main question: who killed Vlad Listyev?

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Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration00:50

Tourist police officer Lera wants to investigate serious cases and dangerous crimes. But in her department, they are as rare as the good mood of the boss and the intelligence of her colleagues. Despite this, Lera essentially refuses the “cushy little town”, carefully prepared by her admiral father, and does not give up work in the special division for the protection of public order in Sochi. But just how to continue the service and protect the peace of guests of the city, contacting a thief and a swindler?

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:40

High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their problems. Their school friends also decide to do the same with their parents to solve their respective problems

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, detective, military, history
CountryRussia
Duration02:16

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Genrethriller
CountryRussia
Duration01:26

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRussia
Duration00:55

History of residents of one of the streets of the sleeping area of a big city. Schoolchildren and students, housewives and sellers, oligarchs and simple workers - more than 30 characters of different age and social status will meet here, each of them has its own story. There are no main and secondary heroes in the “Universe” of the Street. This is a story about all of us and our neighbors.




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