On July 6, 1918, the White Guards, led by Colonel Alexander Perkhurov, occupied Yaroslavl without a fight. No one came to the defense of the Bolsheviks. The inhabitants of the city were at a loss, they did not know who to rely on and who was worth supporting. The rebels of Yaroslavl did not suspect what a bloody end awaited them. They generally did not understand who they were dealing with. The Bolsheviks immediately divided the world into friends and foes. The Red troops were ordered not only to suppress the uprising in Yaroslavl, but also to destroy the recalcitrant. Thus began the Civil War.

He is called the "King of the Light Genre". His songs are still sung by all of Russia.

Seven people left the small village of Kedrovoe in the Sverdlovsk region for Syria to fight as part of the Wagner PMC. After the battle near Deir ez-Zor on February 7, where the PMC suffered heavy losses, news is expected in Kedrovo.

Eduard Sagalaev flew to London to sit with Makarevich in the back garden of the studio and talk about life. About why beer cannot be mixed with vodka, but with whiskey. About why Makarevich started writing books and almost stopped diving. About how Makarevich gave his first autograph, and about how a samurai should live. About the love of life and the fear of death.

The film tells about the life and work of Yevgeny Khaldei, who was the famous Soviet photojournalist. He was born on March 10, 1917 in Yuzovka, now Donetsk. The real name of the photographer is Yefim Khaldei. He was called Evgeny at the TASS agency, where he began his career as a 19-year-old boy. He went through the entire Great Patriotic War from Murmansk to Berlin with the legendary Leica camera in his hands. He was fired from TASS in 1948 on the grounds of “the fifth paragraph”. He worked in obscurity, so that that time would not be forgotten. And it seems that he forgave the time everything, the murder of his parents, humiliation and indifference.

A film about ordinary teenagers from sleeping areas. By their incomplete sixteen, they have already managed to try a lot. At 11, the first cigarette, at 12, the first intoxication, at 13, the first love with all the ensuing consequences. The main character of the picture, Snezhana, had already quit smoking by the age of 16, because she had given birth to a child. The film is an observation of the life of a young couple who are expecting a baby. The film was filmed for 2 years. One year before birth and one year after birth.

Back in 1942, at the height of the Great Patriotic War, a major plague epidemic broke out in Mongolia. A detachment of Soviet specialists was sent to fight it, who worked selflessly, saving people, burning corpses, testing new methods of administering the vaccine, and also falling in love, getting married and having children. 70 years later, their children, now elderly themselves, set off on a journey to Mongolia, following in the footsteps of their parents.

In September 2022, when mobilization was announced in Russia, residents of the Chukotka village of Egvekinot Maxim Teyunaut and Sergei Nechaev decided to escape so that they would not be sent to war in Ukraine. The closest place where you could escape on a small fishing boat was St. Lawrence Island, which belongs to the state of Alaska. In the USA, Teyunaut and Nechaev asked for political asylum. They spent three months in a migration prison. Baptist church pastor Roman Mitin, who comes from a Ukrainian family of Baptists who were persecuted for their faith in Soviet times, vouched for them. In the nineties they emigrated to the USA.

In each program, the author and presenter Anton Voitsekhovsky reveals to the audience the essence of phenomena and scientific discoveries. He asks leading experts in various fields his questions and, with the help of animation and graphics, simply talks about the most difficult things.

“The most paradoxical, curvilinear Russian poet,” as Nikolai Glazkov was called, lived the same curvilinear life. Colleagues considered him a genius, and his poems remained unknown.

January 1995 Fighting in the center of Grozny is in full swing. The reconnaissance group of the Marine Corps under the command of Senior Lieutenant Dmitry Polkovnikov takes a combat watch. Very soon they will be in the lists of dead heroes. Posthumously they will be presented to military orders.

The doll is perhaps the most important toy in the life of any person. Why is the doll so important and why is the doll world so diverse? Why was the Scientific Research Institute of Toys created in the Soviet Union, by the way, the only one in the world? And why is it abolished now? What have we grown up to be and what will our children be like? Does a lot really depend on toys? On the example of one family, as well as with the help of collectors and artists, psychologists and teachers, documents and chronicles of those years, the film tries to answer these questions.

Siberia stands as Russia's most abundant macroregion in terms of natural resources, yet paradoxically, it grapples with significant disadvantages. Boasting 88% of the nation's natural gas reserves, only 16.8% of households have access to this vital resource—lower than anywhere else in the country. Historically, the state has extracted resources from local residents, and recently, this trend has escalated to include the relocation of residents themselves, sending them to Ukraine. As a compensation for fathers, husbands, and sons being sent to the front lines, their families receive firewood to endure the harsh winter of 2022-2023 without freezing. Correspondents from Novaya Gazeta traverse Siberia, engaging with ordinary residents, local officials, and the families of those mobilized, delving into their perspectives on poverty, the ongoing special operation, and the contentious necessity of sending their loved ones to the front lines. This film is part of the documentary project «The Assignment» made by Novaya Gazeta journalists who remain in Russia and continue to work under war censorship and risks. Film editor – Kirill Sakharnov.

The First World War is the first global conflict in the history of mankind and just one question on a history exam for children. For Belarus, which became an arena of hostilities from the very first days of the war, the events of 1914-18 became fateful. The population of the western part turned out to be forced refugees, their houses were simply burned so as not to be given to the enemy, for two and a half years the front line cut Belarus in half, for two and a half years millions of soldiers of both warring parties waged an exhausting war, until now their graves are both “known and unknown." The filmmakers tried to figure out what it was.

A turning point for Russia in 1991. Exiled writer, dissident and human rights activist Georgy Vladimov in Niederhausen. Finding himself in a forced, joyless emigration, he “envyed this crowd and felt as one of the biggest losses” the impossibility of being with her in Russia. The film was based on Vladimov's unfinished novel "Long Way to Gipperary". The film is voiced by Valentin Gaft.

In the first series of the cycle, we are talking about the first wave of emigration, which brought almost two million refugees to foreign shores.

How to find a right way out of a difficult situation, when you’re a lonely teenager? Ksyusha lives in her closed off world, and the only person she’s had a trusting relationship with is now serving time in a prison. In 2017 her boyfriend went to a school with a weapon, for which he was given a sentence of 7 years and 3 months. Soon he’s going to be released, so the heroine of the movie has to reflect on this relationship and decide, whether she really wants to be with this person.

This Soviet general was in a special account with Stalin and was known as his favorite. In December 1941, together with Zhukov and Rokossovsky, he was called the "savior of Moscow." In 1942, the Leader entrusted him with a new, responsible mission. No one could have imagined that very soon the name of this general would become as common as the name of Judas.

The first series of the "Liberation" cycle tells about the peasant, who is the same in all countries, the difference is only in the conditions in which the authorities put him.

An artistic study of why people make moonshine and how this hobby is built into their everyday life. Sergey is not so much an outstanding bootlegger as a collective portrait of the generation that went through Perestroika and Chechnya.