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On assignment from the editorial office a reporter from Yekaterinburg goes to a village lost in taiga, where he hears an ancient legend about the lord of the forest. Upon his return home all of a sudden he starts seeing and hearing the ancient spirit who begs him to save the endangered fantastic creatures. The reporter agrees and in the company of his 12-year-old daughter, who has come from Moscow to spend the vacation with him, he sets off for the lands virtually untouched by civilization. The trip filled with unexpected adventures, will bring the father and daughter closer together because it’s only together that they will be able to solve the mystery of the ancient legends from the past.
Government official Victor Letayev oversees road construction in the Perm region. He is a cynical kind, accustomed to always getting things done, and getting them done his way. He loves his job, he is good at it, and he has zero interest in anything else. His motto is, “I used to chop firewood for a living. Everyone needs firewood; you can’t heat a home with art or culture.” Victor’s attitude changes when art and culture become areas of priority for his region’s development. Now, in order to keep his job, Victor has to study Perm region’s cultural heritage. Hoping to make things easier for himself, he takes lessons from art historian Marina. Will she succeed in imposing cultural awareness on a pragmatic government functionary?
Vera deceives a family from Perm to the Arkhangelsk region in the illusory hope of finding her youngest daughter, who disappeared without a trace a year and a half ago. She does not suspect that this deception can lead to an even greater tragedy.
The Myagkov family is forced to sell their house and move into an old apartment. But it turned out that it already has an owner - a ginger cat who is not at all happy with his new neighbors and does not hide it. Attempts to catch and evict the furry pest fail one after another. The head of the family, Mikhail, is ready to take a decisive step to get rid of the cat, but he accidentally steps on a damaged extension cord, and they receive a powerful electric shock. Having come to his senses, the head of the family acquires the superpower to hear and understand the red-haired prankster. Under new circumstances, the Myagkovs decide to leave the cat in the house, and from that moment on, the life of an ordinary Moscow family changes.
Summer of 1942. A fierce battle begins near Stalingrad, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the whole world... Twenty-year-old sergeant Lubomir Zukh, who has not yet smelled gunpowder, left his unit in the frontline zone to say goodbye to his girlfriend. He was out of the unit for only three hours! But according to the laws of wartime, he is a deserter. And the punishment for this is one thing — execution. The sentence is too harsh, and everyone understands that. Will the flywheel of the military machine stop, will there be an order for pardon?
In search of sensational material, the capital's journalist Tatyana Blok finds herself in the village. The reason for the shooting is large-scale: one morning in the village of Verkhnyye Brody (across the river from the Lower Ones), all the people disappeared. Twenty people at once. Money, documents, and all the livestock were left in place. Tatiana takes over the investigation. For her, this is a chance to prove that she was fired from television for nothing, and she is able to shoot high-quality investigative reports. But for this, Tatiana will have to learn how to live in the village, or rather, to survive in it.
A simple man Ivan Rostok, having reached the limit in his fall, repents and is spiritually reborn. He gains faith after the appearance of St. George to him and sets himself the task of restoring the village church destroyed in Soviet times.
In the Chertanovo area, known for periodic invasions and attractions, the Prince of Darkness himself suddenly appears. He has grandiose plans, but to implement them, he needs the help of his son, a supermarket cashier, who has a lot of questions for his father from hell. The all-powerful Prince of Darkness will have to build relationships with earthly relatives in order to carry out his plans and teach humanity a lesson.
On August 24, 1981, the newlyweds Larisa and Vladimir Savitsky stepped on board the plane following the flight Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Blagoveshchensk. 30 minutes before landing, the civilian aircraft AN-24 collided with another aircraft and broke into pieces at an altitude of more than 5 kilometers above the ground. No one was supposed to survive ... but a miracle happened. Larisa Savitskaya woke up in the middle of the wreckage of the plane in the impenetrable taiga. Now she herself had to create a real miracle, which only a strong-minded person is capable of.
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.