Season 5 • Episode 20
LatestYuri Bragin, after a year-long business trip, where he, as part of an investigation team, was investigating a high-profile case, returns to St. Petersburg. When he returns, he learns that the current head of the First Investigation Department of the First Directorate of the State Investigation Department, Vadim Maltsev, is retiring. With a high degree of probability, it is Bragin who will be offered his place. But Yuri is not a careerist and the position of the boss is not the goal of his life. A talented investigator likes to do "live work" more. And now he is again sent on a business trip. This time in one of the cities of the Leningrad region, where two girls were killed with a difference of a week. Here, in a small town, everyone knows each other, and this complicates the search for the criminal.
Acting
Kolesnikov's Bragin: exhausted integrity you can practically smell
Writing
Cases where the town itself is the real suspect
Production
Leningrad region locations that breathe post-Soviet decay
Ivan Kolesnikov
Юрий Брагин
Sergey Zharkov
Михаил Шибанов
Elena Vozhakina
Вера Брагина
Aleksander Dudenkov
Игорь Муравьёв
Sergey Komarov
Андрей Каверин
Vladimir Litvinov
Сергей Колесников
Evgeniy Bakalov
Игорь Шайтанов
Evgeniia Shakhnovich
Ракитина
Aleksandr Razbash
Андрей Ухватов
Mikhail Luchko
Иван Рубайло
Vitaliy Biserov
Женя Комаров
Nikolay Gorshkov
Владимир Бобров
Danil Slutsky
Максим
Ксения Погожева
Ксюха
Valentina Muravskaya
Татьяна Злобина
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'First Department' structure mirrors actual Russian investigative hierarchy, making Bragin's refusal of advancement almost politically illegible to Western audiences.
Ivan Kolesnikov reportedly insisted on wearing his own father's vintage watches to ground Bragin in a specific generational weariness.
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