Vadim Spiridonov

The young, talented scientist Konstantin Popov begins a serious romance with the daughter of his academic supervisor. Soon, rumors begin to spread around the department that Popov has made the right choice: the calculation is accurate. Konstantin, a principled and uncompromising man, is used to achieving everything in life on his own. Unable to bear the ridicule of his colleagues, he breaks off the relationship with the woman who loves him...

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.

Far East. Military unit. The days of the border guards are filled with ordinary human concerns and joys. But the habitual rhythm of life is often disturbed, because near the border and the ocean, concealing the danger of a tsunami ...

About the commissioning of a new rolling mill at the steel plant. The plot is based on the relationship between two fellow students at the institute - a senior official of the Ministry, who came to the start-up of the mill, and the director of the plant.

During the formative years of Soviet power, the first commune was organized in a remote Siberian village. The task of the counter-revolutionaries becomes its destruction…

Moscow mid-XIX century. Middle-aged provincial businessman Savva Gennadievich Vasilkov falls in love with local beauty Lidiya Yuryevna Cheboksarova. Wanting to meet her, he asks his new acquaintance Telyatev to introduce himself as Cheboksarov. Telyatev and his friend Glumov decide to play the mother of Lidiya, Nadezhda Antonovna, who wants to get a rich son-in-law, and recommend Vasilkov as a gold mining millionaire from Siberia. Savva Gennadievich begins to visit the Cheboksarovs house, but his provincialism and Lydiya’s intention to create a brilliant party due to their beauty prevent them from finding a common language.

On their way to a Black Sea resort, a Siberian tractor driver and his wife make new friends and take a detour to Moscow.

About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.