Yuriy Nifontov

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before—and no man imagined what would happen next.

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.

A long time ago, Nightingale the Robber managed to defeat Ilya Muromets by cunning. He rewrote history, appropriating to himself all the exploits and glory of the hero. Thanks to the elixir of immortality, the Nightingale has survived to this day. And now he wants to revive the dark god Veles, to whom he then sold his soul. Today only the family of our heroes knows this secret. The father of the heroes, Professor Kiselyov, manages to find Muromets in the north, in the ice of an underwater cave, where the last battle between the hero and the robber took place. Thanks to Kiselyov's development - the heart of steel - Muromets returns to our world. However, this feat costs the professor his life. Now his sons, Maksim and Egor, will have to not only stop the Nightingale, but also restore the honorable name of Ilya Muromets - in fights between giant robot warriors at the RoboArena.

Detective story set up in the time and place of young Pushkin, at Tsarskosel'sky Liceum.

Oleg learns the intricacies of working in a bank, and here he meets the manager Veta. They begin a romance that will change the lives of both. Veta dreams of being close to Oleg, but for this he needs to divorce Katya...

A man reconnects with the people he grew up with in a Soviet orphanage.

Young survivor of the siege Yura Tyukalov came to sports after the war, when it seemed he had no strength to live, let alone to conduct grueling training in academic rowing. But after meeting coaches Mikhail and Vera Savrimovich, Yura gets a second wind and starts life anew. Fates, burned by the war, unite in a team where everyone supports and inspires each other. Victories are not easy, but Yura has love, talent and a native team that is unstoppable: their goal is the Olympics in Helsinki.

A half-empty village far from the regional center has been inhabited by characters from Ostrovsky's "Snegurochka," only adjusted to our times. Bobyl and Bobylikha are stationmasters, Berendey is no longer a tsar but a watchman, Lel is a trendy DJ returning from Moscow for the holidays, and his classmate Mizgir is a successful businessman from the regional center. Only Snegurochka seems the same as before. Incapable of emotion, she is doomed to make those around her fall in love with her.