

Season 11 • Episode 8
LatestA crime series about MosGaz - Valdimir Ionesyan, one of a firsts Russian serial killers caught in 1962 in Moscow.
Production
Exquisite 1960s Moscow period detail.
Writing
KGB interference as meta-narrative tension.
Acting
Ionesyan's terrifying ordinariness.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
MosGaz broke Russian TV taboos by depicting Soviet authorities as incompetent villains, not heroes — a radical act in 2012 Putin-era media.
The real Ionesyan case was classified until 1988; even his neighbors didn't know why he was arrested. The show recreated his actual apartment from KGB photographs.