Valeriy Barinov

Thirty years ago Bolshoi Orchestra conductor Andreï Filipov was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a lowly janitor, an opportunity arises to gather his old musicians to go and pose as the official Bolshoi orchestra in Paris.

Wounded as a tank driver in 1941 during World War II, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts making improvements and in 1947 ends up creating the AK-47 assault...

Soccer hooligans form an exclusive violent group "firm" comprised of fans from various backgrounds like students, bankers, musicians, car mechanics united by their aggressive soccer fandom, regardless of their everyday lives.

A boy from a remote village overcomes wartime hardships and post-war devastation to establish the Group A anti-terrorist unit, later known as Alpha Group, tracing his journey from a fatherless childhood to founding an elite force.