Arthur Beschastny

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

An erotic island retreat plays host to an exclusive couple’s retreat designed to rekindle the flames of passion. When Stacy and her boyfriend arrive, the sexy fun is quickly interrupted by a malevolent entity that feeds on their pain.

Mara, an ancient pagan spirit, hunts a group of teenagers, taking their body parts to be reborn. A disillusioned and desperate investigator has to face his deepest fears to save the teenagers.

Thoracic surgeon Evgenia Belyaeva has one month to prepare for a flight to the International Space Station, where she must operate on a crew member. Will she be up for the challenge? Can she overcome her fears and insecurities? Will she be able to perform the complicated surgery in zero gravity, and give the cosmonaut a chance to return to Earth alive?

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.

The protagonist is invited to take part in a video flash mob featuring a hundred famous actors. However, he begins to look for a deeper meaning behind it.

The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.

While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.

Brother and sister, teenagers Savva and Aglaya, live in the city and do what they like most. Savva is a fan of computer games and an eternal fidget. Aglaya is a young genius of science who dreams of making an important discovery. Each has plans for the summer holidays: Savva is going to a games festival, and Aglaya is working on a project at a science camp. But one day, their plans fall apart. Since the guys are always teasing each other, arguing about everything and can't agree on anything, one day a disaster occurs, as a result of which their apartment is simultaneously flooded with water and engulfed in fire. As punishment, the parents send the children to the village to their grandparents. For Savva and Aglaya, this is a nightmare: they are used to food delivery, entertainment, games and the Internet, and in the village they have to get up early, work in the garden, feed for slaughter, go to the bathhouse and a bunch of other village "delights".

Every day, they steal your strength, your emotions, your love. We call them the Shadow. Work like us - to deliver them back to the Dark World. Impending disaster, and humanity can be at the mercy of darkness ... And only we can keep the balance

By miracle he avoided death and returns to the house where he was born. In the house now lives the love of his life. But the hope for happiness turns sour with a terrible discovery: his beloved is the daughter of his enemy.

100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?

The legitimate heir to the throne in exile and the son of a murdered rebel — what do they have in common? Everyone has their own goal: one dreams of taking the throne and restoring his family to its former glory, the other - to take revenge on the murderer of his father, who serves the usurpers. Young men enter into a large-scale struggle for power and honor, in which those who seemed to be friends can betray, and former enemies can turn into allies. In order to achieve the goal, both the prince and the rebel's son will have to risk the most valuable and make the main choice in their lives — to go the preordained way or to oppose fate itself.

After a chance meeting with a girl, a nameless boy becomes her lover and guardian angel. Together they avenge the girl’s rape, fleeing into the woods in an attempt to escape the modern world and civilization. They commit more crimes, killing encountered people at random, until the third character comes into the story, changing the dynamic of the lovers’ relationship. It’s an emotional story of passion, violence and the impossibility of running away from oneself.

The crazy comedy "City Day" tells about one day in the life of the inhabitants of the provincial Lyubyakino. Celebrating the City Day, people did not notice that the president himself had planned the working trip through the town. Sudden news plunges everyone into shock and creates chaos: the mayor, the district police officer, the priest and other heroes from this place, lost in the outback, forgotten by God and progress, must, in the shortest possible time, bring the city, actively celebrating, as the last time, into a decent look, in a hurry to mask the problems from the view from the guarded cortege and to depict that this is a place of high culture of everyday life.

The main character is an Opel Astra car. The car has become an integral part of every person's life. In the short stories the characters work and rest together with the Opel Astra, meet, get to know each other and fall in love, quarrel and make peace.

Kesha, a young magician assistant, is desperately in love with a young journalist Alisa. He is ready to do everything possible to conquer her.

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.

Rita, a fragile-looking chemistry teacher, remains out of work for having connections with a student. But thanks to her skills, she manages to earn easy money by cleaning the cottage. However, this cottage turns out to be a crime scene, and Rita herself finds herself in the epicenter of criminal showdowns by local bandits. However, Rita is not so simple — all this time she has been living undercover on someone else's passport. A few years ago, she already had to flee from her native St. Petersburg to a seaside town to save her life. After all, Rita is the only living carrier of the formula that her pursuers really need.

Every day of Roma and Zhenya's teenage brothers goes the same way, on the machine: alarm clock, study, cigarette behind the garage, a warehouse with weapons ... wait, what? The guys decide that this is a chance to quickly cut down easy money, because all you have to do is sell the machines on the darknet. But where there are weapons, there are dangerous people — that's where the fun begins. Very soon, all the residents of the town are involved in the story: single mother Svetlana, pawnshop owner Albert, tattoo artist Lelya, policeman Basov, his blogger daughter Milena, as well as the capital's bandits.

The series is about how an American spy infiltrated the largest gas producing company in Russia.

Natasha went to Moscow a few years ago to achieve success. Her parents stayed in Yekaterinburg and divorced, and her sister got married and moved to a small town in the Sverdlovsk region. Natasha feels guilty for abandoning her family, and constantly tries to solve all their problems from a distance. She lives with a man much older than herself, which she is afraid to admit to her parents, and she is not completely sure whether she should connect her life with this particular man. Despite all the difficulties, the members of this family try to maintain good relationships on a regular basis, even when they are far from each other.

Shadows lurk from the World of Darkness to the human world. This force is the gateway between the two worlds and only the force of true love will be enough to restore balance.

Sometimes we make a request to the Universe, not even assuming that only two ministries answer all people's requests: The Ministry of All Good Things has kind—hearted and goofy people, but the Ministry of All Bad Things, as you can see, has super-efficient managers.

The characters have fictitious names, but they can easily be guessed by real people whom everyone knows perfectly well: Robert Rozhdestvensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky, Bulat Okudzhava, Bella Akhmadulina, Vladimir Vysotsky, Ernst Neizvestny, Vasily Aksenov himself and others.

Students of the Sevastopol Nakhimov School dream of finding treasures that were hidden at the command of Admiral Nakhimov during the Crimean War. The treasure hunt involves smugglers, black archaeologists and even ghosts. Having gone through a series of exciting adventures, sometimes getting into mystical stories, the boys will learn the value of true friendship and mutual assistance.

In the past, Soviet prima ballerina and now world-renowned choreographer Ruta Myers returns to the country after almost 40 years to stage a performance at the country's main ballet theater. Ruta is forced to rebuild relationships with friends and enemies, who have become key people in the Russian ballet over the past time, but most importantly — with the artistic director of the theater Andrei Pronin and his family. They were once a couple, and now old feelings and old resentments flare up with renewed vigor. A lot of money, ambitions, and a career are at stake — Ruta, despite all her efforts, finds herself in the epicenter of passions and intrigues very far from the world of art.

A young couple, Misha and Anya, are spending their vacation in Vietnam. On the penultimate day of rest, on the eve of departure, Anya disappears after meeting her ex-boyfriend Sugar, whom she thought was dead. Faced with the indifference of the local police, Misha begins an independent search and very soon discovers that the reason for Anya's disappearance lies in her past, which she deliberately hid from him. Having started searching for Anya, Misha meets Captain Tao of the People's Army of Vietnam, who has returned to her hometown to investigate the circumstances of her younger sister's death. Together they go from casual acquaintances to real friends, saving each other from mortal danger.

Anya works as an assistant in an expensive event agency for a nominal salary, supplemented by access to the city's high society. There she meets a representative of a noble Ottoman family, who came to St. Petersburg in search of a Russian wife. Anya, too, is not all simple with her roots - her swindler father is in prison, from where he can be pulled out for a lot of money. The girl decides to commit a crime: she steals a precious necklace from Serkan's collection, but very quickly finds out that the necklace is a fake, like the title of the Sultan. Serkan is a swindler who, Anya is forced to admit, cannot be denied extraordinary charm. The Turk, caught on a forgery, is forced to take Anya as a share in order to further "breed" the St. Petersburg and not only the rich already for a couple with an energetic girl and her freed dad.

Anna, a plastic surgeon leading a perfect life, sees her world crumble when her husband's affair is exposed. Seeking revenge, she goes down a dark path with unforeseen consequences.

Rita, a fragile-looking chemistry teacher, is out of work for having a relationship with a student. But thanks to her skills, she manages to earn easy money by cleaning the cottage. However, this cottage turns out to be a crime scene, and Rita herself finds herself in the epicenter of the criminal squabbles of local bandits. However, Rita is not so simple — all this time she has been living undercover on someone else's passport. A few years ago, she had to flee from her native St. Petersburg to a seaside town to save her life. After all, Rita is the only living carrier of the formula that her pursuers really need.

Bandit Dino was once considered a man capable of ruthlessly knocking out debts from anyone. The 90s are long over, and now he lives as a hermit in a remote province. However, due to circumstances, Dino is forced to return to the big city to his old "profession", but now he has to pay off his debts.

Stories about strange, annoying and even scary moments in our lives: domestic violence, the madness of tick-tockers and their audience, the demands of society on girls and much more.