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Banditskiy Peterburg
''Bandit Petersburg'' (or ''Gangster Petersburg'', russian: Бандитский Петербург) is a Russian detective television series. It was one of the most successful Russian series of the early 2000s. The series is loosely based on the eight works of . The first two parts premiered in May 2000 on the NTV channel. In total, ten seasons were produced, the last of which was broadcast in 2007. The only character who appears in 9 seasons (except the film ''The Operative''), is Lieutenant Colonel Kudasov by Yevgeny Sidikhin. Music The series' theme song is ''The City that isn't there'', by singer and composer Igor Kornelyuk, and lyricist . Part I of the series also features ''You're a Stranger To Me'' by Tatiana Bulanova as a secondary theme. Anachronism Although the events of the series are portrayed as taking place in the late 1980s to early 1990s, anachronistic objects such as car models, mobile phones, personal computers, signage and media appear in the series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NTV (Russia)
NTV (Cyrillic: НТВ) is a Russian free-to-air television channel that was launched as a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company . Since 14 April 2001 Gazprom Media controls the network. NTV has no official meaning according to Igor Malashenko, the author of the name and co-founder of the company, but in the 1990s unofficial transcripts of the acronym include "New" (''Novoje''), "Independent" (''Nezavisimoje''), "Non-governmental" (''Negosudarstvennoje''), "Our" (''Nashe''). History Vladimir Gusinsky founded NTV broadcasting in October 1993 on channel 4 moving to channel 5 in January 1994. He attracted talented journalists and news anchors of the time such as Tatiana Mitkova, Leonid Parfyonov, Mikhail Osokin, Yevgeniy Kiselyov, Vladimir A. Kara-Murza, Victor Shenderovich and others. The channel set high professional standards in Russian television, broadcasting live coverage and sharp analysis of current events. Starting before the dissolution of Soviet Union as Fourt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Samokhina
Anna Vladlenovna Samokhina (russian: Анна Владленовна Самохина; 14 January 1963 – 8 February 2010) was a Russian actress. Samokhina started her film career in the 1980s and quickly became popular due to her talent, beauty and charm. She is best known as the leading actress in Yuri Kara's ''Barons of Crime'' (rus. ''Воры в законе''), a most outlandish, brutal and controversial Soviet film, about mafia and corruption in the late USSR. At the end of the 1990s, Samokhina stopped working in cinema, focusing primarily on her private life and restaurant business. In 2008, she returned to cinema and participated in several pictures. The actress was married twice. From her first marriage, she had a daughter, Alexandra, who later became an actress too. In November 2009, Anna Samokhina was diagnosed with stomach cancer at a late stage. Until 1 February 2010, Russian press and many actors in country did not know that her illness was very serious. She die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Crime Television Series
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2007 Russian Television Series Endings
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2000s Russian Television Series
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Russian Police Procedural Television Series
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity *Russophone, Russian-speaking person (, ''russkogovoryashchy'', ''russkoyazychny'') *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *Russian alphabet *Russian cuisine *Russian culture *Russian studies Russian may also refer to: *Russian dressing *''The Russians'', a book by Hedrick Smith *Russian (comics), fictional Marvel Comics supervillain from ''The Punisher'' series *Russian (solitaire), a card game * "Russians" (song), from the album ''The Dream of the Blue Turtles'' by Sting *"Russian", from the album ''Tubular Bells 2003'' by Mike Oldfield *"Russian", from the album '' '' by Caravan Palace *Nik Russian, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002 *The South African name for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NTV (Russia) Original Programming
NTV may refer to: Television * NTV (Bangladesh), a Bengali-language satellite television channel in Bangladesh * NTV (India), Telugu regional channel * NTV (Kenya) * NTV (Mongolia), a television channel based in Mongolia * NTV (Newport Television), University of Wales, Newport, UK * NTV (Portugal), renamed to RTPN * NTV (Russia), russian: НТВ, links=no, a Russian television channel ** NTV Plus, the brand name for the Russian digital satellite television service ** NTV Plus Sport, Russia's first dedicated sports channel * NTV (Sri Lanka), a state-owned, English-language television channel * NTV (Turkish TV channel), a nationwide television news channel * NTV7, a Malaysian television network * NTV Canada, Canadian Russian language channel * NTV Montena, a regional broadcaster in Montenegro * NTV PLUS, a city channel owned by the Government of Nepal * NTV Uganda, TV station in Uganda * NTV Variety, a satellite cable channel operated by Next TV in Taiwan * NASA TV, US * Nauru Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copyright
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Evgeniya Kryukova
Evgeniya Vladislavovna Kryukova (russian: Евге́ния Владисла́вовна Крю́кова) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actress. Biography and career Evgeniya Kryukova was born in 1971 into a family of engineers. After high school she entered the Moscow Architectural Institute, out of which she dropped out; she left the institute from the first course. In 1988 Kryukova got a job as an artist at the Moscow Youth Theatre of Vyacheslav Spesivtsev. Then she married for the first time, to the actor Mikhail Zhukov, with whom she began to appear on stage as an actress. She began working as an extra, but even then she was liked by the public for her unique appearance and expressive eyes. Her husband assisted her with her acting career. She entered to study at an extramural department of GITIS in 1990. Spesivtsev's troupe mainly consisted of students and graduates of Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School. One day when she was in the audience of a student perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirill Lavrov
Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov (russian: link=no, Кирилл Юрьевич Лавров; 15 September 1925 – 27 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and director. Biography Childhood Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was born on 15 September 1925, in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). He was baptized by the Russian Orthodox Church of St. John the Divine in Lavrushinskoe Podvorie Monastery in Leningrad. Young Kirill Lavrov was brought up in Leningrad, in a family with deep roots in St. Petersburg society. He was fond of literature and theater from a young age, and was exposed to a highly stimulating intellectual environment in his family. He was also a good sportsman: he took gymnastics, fencing, and was a member of the youth football (soccer) team at "Spartak" sports club in Leningrad. War During World War II Kirill Lavrov was evacuated to Kirov, then to Novosibirsk in Siberia. There he worked as a metal worker at a military-industrial plant. In the beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Drozdova
Olga Borisovna Drozdova (russian: Ольга Борисовна Дроздова; born 1 April 1965, Nakhodka) is a Russian theater and film actress, director. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2015). Selected filmography * Queen Margo (1996) as Charlotte de Sauve * Bandit Petersburg (1998) as Katya * Popsa (2005) as crazy singer * The First Circle ''In the First Circle'' (russian: link=no, italics=yes, В круге первом, V kruge pervom; also published as ''The First Circle'') is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, released in 1968. A more complete version of the boo ... (2006) as Dotnara, Volodin’s Wife * Furious (2017) as Princess Agrafena, Prince Yuri's wife References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Drozdova, Olga 1965 births Living people People from Nakhodka Soviet actresses People's Artists of Russia 20th-century Russian actresses 21st-century Russian actresses Honored Artists of the Russian Federation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
