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The Investigation Led By

Summary The most high-profile crimes committed in the USSR. View more details

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The Investigation Led By

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Andrey Da! Leonid Kanevskiy Marina Khlebnikova Nataliya Gulkina

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Genres : Crime Documentary Reality-TV

Release date : Jan 19, 2006

Countries of origin : Russia

Language : Russian

Production companies : Vserossiyskaya Gosudarstvennaya Televizionnaya i Radioveshchatelnaya Kompaniya (VGTRK) Versiya

Summary The most high-profile crimes committed in the USSR. View more details

Details

Genres : Crime Documentary Reality-TV

Release date : Jan 19, 2006

Countries of origin : Russia

Language : Russian

Production companies : Vserossiyskaya Gosudarstvennaya Televizionnaya i Radioveshchatelnaya Kompaniya (VGTRK) Versiya

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Episodes

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Sledstvie veli... v Novyy god!
Episode 1 • Jan 19, 2006
Kremlyovskiy gambit
In the summer of 1982, Yuriy Andropov raised the issue of poor food supplies to Moscow in the CPSU Central Committee. A big purge began, which was eventually targeted at the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU, Viktor Grishin. Many leaders of Soviet trade were detained on charges of embezzling socialist property, including the former head of Glavtorg Tregubov and the director of the Eliseevskiy grocery store, Yuriy Sokolov.
Episode 2 • Jan 26, 2006
Lyonka Panteleev. Nalyotchik No. 1
In the early 1920s, a raider named Leonid Pantyolkin, nicknamed "Lyonka Panteleev", appeared in Petrograd. He was engaged in robberies and murders. Militia managed to neutralize the bandit, but he soon escaped from the Kresty prison, but the militia established his whereabouts. During the second detention, Pantyolkin put up armed resistance to the militia and was killed.
Episode 3 • Feb 02, 2006
Ugrozysk protiv fantomasov
In 1968, a gang of the Tolstopyatov brothers appeared in Rostov-on-Don, which was engaged in armed robberies and robberies using camouflage and homemade firearms. The gang operated with impunity for 5 years. In 1971, during another attack, the bandits got into a car accident, but at the last moment they managed to escape.
Episode 4 • Feb 09, 2006
Ugrozysk protiv fantomasov. Vtoraya seriya
In 1971-1973, the gang of the Tolstopyatov brothers continued to commit robbery attacks. But in 1973 the bandits were surrounded. One of them (Sergey Samosyuk) was killed, three more (brothers Vyacheslav and Vladimir Tolstopyatov and Vladimir Gorshkov) were detained.
Episode 5 • Feb 16, 2006
Vozdushnyye piraty
On March 8, 1988, the Ovechkin family of musicians hijacked an Irkutsk-Kurgan-Leningrad flight in order to hijack it abroad. By deception, the plane was landed at the Veshchevo airfield in the Leningrad Region. The assault was unsuccessful, but seeing that they would not last long, most of the Ovechkins committed suicide.
Episode 6 • Mar 02, 2006
Igor Talkov: Pulya dlya kumira
On October 6, 1991, the famous singer Igor Talkov was killed in the Yubileynyy Sports Palace in Leningrad. The first suspect in the murder was the bodyguard of singer Aziza Igor Malakhov. However, the examination established that Talkov was shot by his director Valeriy Shlyafman. Shlyafman fled abroad, where he still lives.
Episode 7 • Mar 16, 2006
Bunt otverzhennykh
On August 31, 1978, a group of guys ran through the Tatarskaya Sloboda micro-district of Kazan, beating anyone they met to death. Several people died. Soon there were several more similar actions. These runs were organized by the Tyap-Lyap (Teplokontrol) organized criminal group.
Episode 8 • Mar 23, 2006
Ogrableniye veka
On August 5, 1977, 1,500,000 Soviet rubles were stolen from the State Bank in Yerevan. As it turned out, the robbery was committed by the brothers Nikolay and Feliks Kalachyan. They were sentenced to death. The gunner of the brothers was sentenced to 11 years.
Episode 9 • Mar 30, 2006
Kapkan dlya inturista
On July 20, 1980, the day after the start of the Moscow Olympics, a foreigner was killed in a rest house near Moscow. As it turned out, the murder was committed by a prostitute Maria Lunina. Her young man, Aleksey Nepomnyashchiy, and the underground millionaire Matulis were also involved in the crime.
Episode 10 • Apr 06, 2006
Chyornaya koshka
October 1945. Moscow is terrified by the ominous name "Black Cat". A gang of defense plant workers led by Ivan Mitin committed 28 robbery attacks on shops, savings banks and collectors and 11 murders. Ivan Mitin and two other gang members were sentenced to death.
Episode 11 • Apr 13, 2006
Znamya Adolfa Gitlera
Beginning on October 18, 1941, in besieged Leningrad, attacks on trucks with bread, vital for the city, began. The bandits killed the car drivers. As it turned out, the murders and robberies on the instructions of the Abwehr were committed by a gang of 12 former criminals led by a certain Kasharniy.
Episode 12 • Apr 20, 2006
Gaulyayter Leningrada
After the liquidation of the gang of criminals, the Leningrad department of the NKVD received a message that an important Nazi agent, nicknamed "Prince", had arrived in the city, who was to create a Nazi underground in the blockaded city. Some time later, a German agent, Sergey Kruglov, was arrested, and he was predicted to be a Gauleiter in Leningrad.
Episode 13 • May 18, 2006
Okhotniki za brilliantami. Chast 1
November 14, 1980 in Moscow, the apartment of the widow of the famous writer Aleksey Tolstoy was robbed. The richest collection of diamonds left after his death was stolen. The robber turned out to be the famous Odessa raider Anatoliy Bets. He was arrested, but managed to escape during an investigative experiment.
Episode 14 • May 25, 2006
Okhotniki za brilliantami. Chast 2
After the escape of Anatoliy Bets, the entire militia of the USSR set about looking for him. On December 11, 1981, the famous actress Zoya Fedorova was killed in her apartment on Kutuzovskiy Prospekt. According to some reports, this crime was also the work of Bets. Then Irina Bugrimova lost her diamonds. After some time, Bets was killed in Georgia by the traffic police.
Episode 15 • Jun 01, 2006
Odnazhdy v SSSR
1989 Cooperator Sergey Simakov received a videotape showing his missing son voicing the demands of the bandits who kidnapped him. Previously, the bandits had already killed Sergey's wife. The militiamen managed to rescue Simakov's son. Sergey Bityukov, who abducted him, died in a cell in a pre-trial detention center.
Episode 16 • Jun 08, 2006
Vladyka Kubanskiy
1978. After the death of the Secretary of the Central Committee for Agriculture Fyodor Kulakov, two people were possible candidates for the vacant post - the first secretaries of the Krasnodar Regional Committee of the CPSU Sergey Medunov and the Stavropol Regional Committee of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev. It was beneficial for the chairman of the KGB of the USSR, Yuriy Andropov, that Gorbachev took this place, so a development began against Medunov, which revealed a lot of his abuses of power.
Episode 17 • Jun 22, 2006
Kapkan dlya gastrolerov
On October 27, 1971, collectors of the Kazan State Bank were robbed. The driver of the taxi carrying the collectors was killed. A large amount of money was stolen - 60,000 rubles. Soon, a wave of similar crimes swept through different cities of the USSR. After some time, the bandits were arrested.
Episode 18 • Jun 29, 2006
Velikiy Mongol
1972. Information was received by the KGB of the USSR: Moscow thieves in law are offering the KGB to hold a meeting. They stated that they were concerned about the appearance in Moscow of a gang of a certain Gennadiy Karkov, nicknamed "Mongol". But soon the gang was arrested. However, only the leader was punished (he received 14 years in prison), and another member of the criminal group was declared mentally ill and sent for treatment to a psychiatric hospital.
Episode 19 • Sep 14, 2006
Shchipach
July 28, 1981. An unprecedented incident occurred in the Arkhangelskoye estate near Moscow - a diamond necklace was stolen from Galina Brezhneva, daughter of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev, and after a while, the corpse of a famous thief in law was found near the estate.
Episode 20 • Sep 21, 2006
Devushka-palach
From the very end of the Great Patriotic War, the Ministry of State Security of the USSR began the search for and destruction of war criminals - traitors, defectors and policemen. A special department of the KGB of the USSR for 30 years led the search for the only woman - the Nazi executioner. Antonina Makarova-Ginzburg was arrested in 1978. More than 1,500 people died as a result of her activities. She was sentenced to death, one of only three executions of women in the USSR in the post-Stalin era.
Episode 21 • Sep 28, 2006
Lyubov' pod kremlyovskimi zvyozdami
May 23, 1952. There was an arrest of General Nikolay Vlasik, the head of Stalin's security service. Many believe that it was due to Valentina Istomina, Stalin's housekeeper. The episode also talks about the wives and women of many party leaders.
Episode 22 • Oct 05, 2006
Otkroite, Mosgaz!
December 1963. One of the first serial killers in the history of Soviet Union appeared in Moscow. After a short search, the killer of five people was arrested. It turned out to be a theater worker Vladimir Ionesyan. He was sentenced to death.
Episode 23 • Oct 12, 2006
Krasnaya brigada
In 1980, a gang appeared in Kazan, engaged in robberies and murders. Its leader, Vladimir Pustovit, hid his accomplices under the guise of the anti-Soviet Red Brigade organization. Vladimir Pustovit and the chief executioner of the gang, Viktor Osipov, were sentenced to death.
Episode 24 • Oct 19, 2006
Chyornyy kapitan
May 1978. In the south of the RSFSR, the disappearance of drivers with their personal vehicles began. Immediately 5 cars with bullet holes were found at the bottom of the Nevinnomysskiy Canal. After a long time, a gang of 4 was established. The bandits were brothers Dmitriy, Yuriy and Valeriy Samoylenko and Sergey Lezhennikov.
Episode 25 • Oct 26, 2006
Sukhoy zakon
August 20, 1987. In Vladimir, in protest against Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign, a glass factory stopped. To pacify the protesters, an unscheduled batch of vodka was sent, but the convoy of trucks did not reach Vladimir - it disappeared. Some time later, the body of the shot forwarder of the convoy was found in the forest, and then the trucks with drivers. One of them died.
Episode 26 • Nov 02, 2006
Vozvrashcheniye Svyatogo Luki. Sovremennaya versiya
March 1965. A painting by Frans Hals "Saint Luke" has disappeared from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. However, the general public was not informed about the loss of the masterpiece. The picture was found a few years later, its thief (an employee of the Museum named Volkov) was arrested and convicted.
Episode 27 • Nov 16, 2006
Ubit' reformatora!
October 4, 1980. Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Belorussian SSR, died in a car accident on the Moscow-Brest highway. The car he was in collided with a truck at high speed. The truck driver, Nikolay Pustovit, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but was later amnestied.
Episode 28 • Nov 23, 2006
Vor i aktrisa
In September 1983, a young actress Viktoriya Shestopalova was found murdered at the Belokamennaya station. Later, her beloved Nikolay Sokol, who was a speculator, was killed. During the investigation, it turned out that the murders were ordered by the criminal Vladimir Sivushkin, the shadowy boss Georgiy Gagabiridze, because of the disruption in the supply of illegal goods, for which Nikolay was responsible.
Episode 29 • Dec 07, 2006
Delo Alena Delona
In the late 1960s, a marriage swindler appeared in the Soviet Union. Across the country, he left dozens of robbed women, and killed one. After some time, the swindler was arrested. It turned out to be Yuriy Ladzhun. He was sentenced to death.
Episode 30 • Dec 14, 2006
Koronovannyye vory
In 1992, riots swept through the colonies and prisons of Russia. This is how the underworld reacted to the death in the White Swan colony of the legendary thief in law Vasiliy Babushkin, nicknamed Vasya Brilliant. He was the last of the founders of the clan of thieves in law, along with Mishka Yaponchik and Naftaly Frenkel.
Episode 31 • Dec 21, 2006
Kurskaya anomaliya
On September 27, 1968, in Kursk, two conscript soldiers Viktor Korshunov and Yuriy Surovtsev staged a shooting on the Railway Station Square. 13 people were killed and 11 others were injured. Korshunov was soon killed by his accomplice. Surovtsev was arrested and sentenced to death.
Episode 32 • Dec 28, 2006
Igra na milliony
In the 1970s, the body of a design engineer - gunsmith Stanislav Kupriyanov was found in one of the trains. As the investigation found out, Kupriyanov lost all his money to the hustlers who were traveling with him on the train, and was killed during an attempt to recapture them. One of the hustlers was a woman.
Episode 33 • Jan 18, 2007
Vitebskiy dushitel'
Since 1971, a series of brutal murders of girls and women began in the Vitebsk region. For these crimes, 14 innocent people were convicted, one of them was shot. In 1985, the real killer was nevertheless arrested, he turned out to be a state farm machine operator Gennadiy Mikhasevich. He was sentenced to death.
Episode 34 • Jan 25, 2007
Beshenyy kush
On November 14, 1986, the Molodyozhnyy department store was robbed in Moscow. The largest amount in the history of the police was stolen - 330,000 rubles. Boris Yeltsin personally came to the crime scene. Soon the bandits, who had fled in the car of collectors, were caught up. A shootout ensued, as a result of which one of the raiders died, the second shot himself, and the third, Senior Lieutenant Subachyov, was arrested.
Episode 35 • Feb 01, 2007
Korol' poddelki
In 1975, sorters of the State Bank more and more often began to find counterfeit banknotes with a face value of 25 rubles. Banknotes were confiscated throughout the country, in the end, the driver Viktor Baranov was detained, who admitted that it was he who organized the production of counterfeit money in a typographical way in his own barn.
Episode 36 • Feb 08, 2007
Delo avtomatchikov
October 30, 1973. In one of the military units near Leningrad, a sentry was killed, his Kalashnikov assault rifle was stolen. On May 8, 1974, another murder took place in Leningrad using a machine gun. During the investigation of this case, a gang of two people was established - Yuriy Balanovskiy and Andrey Zelenkov. A militia officer was introduced into this gang and his actions made it possible to detain the criminals.
Episode 37 • Feb 15, 2007
Besy
December 11, 1991. In St. Petersburg, a girl was murdered. The maniac put a red rose into her hand, and scattered the petals from the second such rose around. Two more similar murders were soon committed. The path of the maniac turned out to be short-lived (after 10 days he was arrested), he turned out to be a television master from Moscow, Yuriy Semyonov.
Episode 38 • Feb 22, 2007
Likvidatory
In 1943, Hitler and Stalin organized assassination attempts on each other. The Soviet intelligence officer Igor Miklashevskiy was sent to Germany, and the converted criminal Pyotr Shilo (Tavrin) was sent to the USSR. Neither one nor the other succeeded in eliminating their goals.
Episode 39 • Mar 01, 2007
Zhestokiy maskarad
On January 9, 1974, a robbery and murder of collectors took place in the capital of Latvian SSR, Riga. It took just 3 days for militia officers to catch and arrest the killers - Nikolay Krasovskiy and Vladimir Mezis. They were sentenced to death.
Episode 40 • Mar 15, 2007
Shalnoe zoloto
In 1971, a certain Magomed Tsoloev was detained at the airport in the city of Magadan, who was trying to take out a gold nugget, weighing more than 12 kilograms. As a result of the special operation, numerous dealers in gold sphere were arrested.
Episode 41 • Mar 22, 2007
Viktor Tsoy: smertelnyy povorot
Viktor Tsoy died in a car accident on August 15, 1990 on the 35th kilometer of the R-126 highway in the Tukums region of Latvia, a few tens of kilometers from the capital Riga. While on vacation in Latvia (the village of Plienciems) after the tour, Tsoy at 6 o'clock in the morning went fishing on a small lake in the forest. Fishing took 5 hours, and at about 11 o'clock in the morning the musician went home in his car model "Moskvich-2141". At the same time, the Ikarus-250 bus was driving along the same highway at a speed of 60-70 kilometers per hour. The exact time of the collision of the bus with Tsoy's car is 11:38.
Episode 42 • Mar 29, 2007
Dvoynaya kombinatsiya
In the spring of 1991, the body of a girl was found in the courtyard of one of the Moscow houses, which was surprisingly similar to one of the soloists of the Combination group. As it turned out, she and several other girls were a fake group that fraudulently pretended to be the "Combination" group.
Episode 43 • Apr 05, 2007
Banditskaya koroleva
In 1947, a brutal gang appeared in Kazan, robbing and killing their victims. It took years to catch the bandits, the innocent suffered. A gang consisting of some Babaev, Peterin and the Karmakovs was arrested. Three bandits were sentenced to death, and Karmakova received 25 years in prison.
Episode 44 • Apr 12, 2007
Ishchite zhenshinu!
October 12, 1990, Podolsk. A robbery was committed at the warehouse of the cooperative, the leader of the gang was a girl. During the attack, a security guard was killed. Director of the cooperative Kireev, fearing checks, did not go to the militia, after some time he was sentenced to 2 years for concealing a crime. The thieves were soon arrested.
Episode 45 • Apr 19, 2007
Korol' medvezhatnikov
In 1924, a bugbear appeared in Petrograd, which easily opened even the most reliable safes. Zhorzhik Chyornenkiy (in the world - Georgiy Aleksandrov) was the leader of a gang that at the beginning of the last century specialized in robbery. It took him a maximum of 35 minutes to crack any safe.
Episode 46 • Apr 26, 2007
Pashka-Amerika: banditskiy korol'
In the second half of the 1940s, a raider appeared in Moscow, robbing banks and without hesitation killing everyone who tried to resist. A few years later, Pavel Andreev, nicknamed "Pashka-America", was arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Episode 47 • May 17, 2007
Kak ukrast' million?
In 1990, on the way from Sheremetyevo airport, $ 1,000,000 taken by the state on credit from the United States disappeared without a trace. Airport employee Nikolay Nekrasov was convicted of theft and sentenced to 9 years in prison, but the money was never found.
Episode 48 • May 24, 2007
Talgat Nigmatulin: gibel' superzvezdy
On the night of February 10-11, 1985, in the center of Vilnius, in the house number 49 on Lenin Street, in the apartment of the artist Kalinauskas, five sectarians beat Talgat, who did not resist, with extreme cruelty. Abay Borubaev, Grigoriy Bushmakin, Mirza Kymbatbaev, Vladimir Pestretsov and Igor Sedov took part in the beating, which lasted about 8 hours. By noon on February 11, 1985, Nigmatulin died from life-threatening injuries to internal organs.
Episode 49 • May 31, 2007
Krasavitcy' i chudovishche
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