Best Russian fantasy series
A curated collection of popular fantasy series from Russia.

Librarian (2023)
Librarian (2023)
Unsuccessful actor Alexey Vyazintsev learns that his father was killed under mysterious circumstances. Alexey travels to Shironino, his father's hometown, to sell his apartment, but instead finds himself embroiled in a series of dangerous events. Locals believe that the books of the long-forgotten Soviet writer Gromov have magical properties. Each of these books gives a specific effect: Rage, Patience, Power, Joy, Strength or Memory. The secret world of readers of Gromov's books is divided into Libraries that hunt for books all over the country and are ready to kill competitors for the sake of their strength. Vyazintsev will have to become a part of one of the Libraries, reveal the secrets of his own family and go in search of the rarest of magical books — the book of Meaning.

Project "Prometheus" (2024)
Project "Prometheus" (2024)
Former military pilot Shaposhnikov is investigating the case of the disappearance of a passenger plane in 1998. The case unexpectedly develops in the present, when one of the passengers of the disappeared flight gets through to his family. Anna, a journalist, is involved in the case, who knows this mysterious story firsthand.

Охотники за призраком (2025)
Охотники за призраком (2025)

The Last Warrior. Heritage (2024)
The Last Warrior. Heritage (2024)
Ivan, who just turned 50, has two daughters: the eldest, the heroic Mary, and the youngest, the novice sorceress Sophia. Everything in Belogorie goes on as usual, but the visit of the sorcerer Severin, who dreamed of a terrible disaster, brings confusion to the measured life of wizards. To save both Belogorie and her own father's life, Sofia will have to go to Moscow of the past, where a young and unsuspecting Ivan still lives, and Marya will have to fight evil in the city itself.

Dark World: Equilibrium (2014)
Dark World: Equilibrium (2014)
Shadows lurk from the World of Darkness to the human world. This force is the gateway between the two worlds and only the force of true love will be enough to restore balance.

Наследники. Дар крови (2024)
Наследники. Дар крови (2024)

Awakening (2021)
Awakening (2021)
Investigator Pavel Frolov gets into a car accident. After that, his life is torn into two parallel realities — in one of them his son Kirill survived the disaster, in the other his wife Svetlana. Every morning, when Pavel wakes up, he finds himself alternately, in reality with his son, then with his wife. In each of these lives, he tries to find out who or what is behind the accident in order to try to connect the two realities together. And at the same time, to return the respect of his son and the love of his wife, to whom he often preferred work before.

Молот ведьм (2024)
Молот ведьм (2024)

Hypnosis (2025)
Hypnosis (2025)
The story of three friends: a private detective with the ability to read minds, a lawyer with the gift of seeing the future of a person and a priest with the gift of seeing the past. All of them, thanks to their abilities, have settled into life quite well. But at some point, someone appears on the horizon who wants to take revenge on them for what they did in the distant past.

While the Fern Flowers (2012)
While the Fern Flowers (2012)
Kirill Andreyev lives in Moscow with his sister and works for a tabloid newspaper "Secret Truth". His life changes one day when a colleague gifts him a magic amulet. The amulet transports Kirill to Altai mountains where folklore and magic are real.

Olivier and the Robots (2022)
Olivier and the Robots (2022)
Six stories about life in Russia in the near future and the problems of human interaction with advanced technologies: a girl decides to have a serious conversation with her boyfriend, but encounters his clones; a literature teacher finds an unusual way to interest students in Russian classics; Vsevolod pretends to be a domestic robot; a guy makes confusion in the relationship of his girlfriend's digitized parents; a lawyer is forced to defend the accusedabout the murder of an artificial intelligence coffee machine; after losing his job, a former courier hunts for food delivery robots.

Heritage (2022)
Heritage (2022)
When genetic diversity became minimal and humanity was on the verge of extinction, the Heritage program was launched, designed to replenish the population. It was headed by bioengineers Alexander and Elizabeth Gordeev and geneticist Peter Sergeevich. A group of scientists spent a hundred years in cryogenic sleep in order to thaw healthy embryos in the future. However, scientists could not imagine what the first generation of new people and the last hope of mankind would turn out to be.

Border of Worlds (2025)
Border of Worlds (2025)
After meeting a vampire, the Shilov brothers discover superpowers in themselves. Sergey and Lyokha learn that in the city building of the research institute there is a portal between the worlds of people and evil spirits, which periodically drop in to visit. Werewolves, witches, mermaids and other "tourists" from the dark world are looked after by employees of the secret organization "Border of Worlds"

Through My Eyes (2013)
Through My Eyes (2013)
Graduation in an ordinary high school turns into a tragedy when, under strange circumstances, an eleventh-grader Katya Chunina dies. Shortly before that, her boyfriend Maxim Volkov goes missing. He was last seen in the morning at the hospital, from which he escaped by walking out of the window and remained unharmed. It seems that all these events are connected.

The 13th Clinical Hospital. Beginning (2024)
The 13th Clinical Hospital. Beginning (2024)
The 13th Clinical Hospital as we know it does not yet exist, and humanity is just beginning to come into contact with supernatural phenomena. To be ahead, the USSR is beginning to look for doctors who are ready to go beyond conventional medicine. One of these doctors is Yana, a neuropsychiatrist who is going through a family drama.

The Counted (2018)
The Counted (2018)
The remote area of Karelia in Russia has always been surrounded by myths and legends, but when some fatal cases of Western Nile Fever inexplicably appear there, an epidemiological expedition is sent to take a closer look. Led by ex-lovers Nikolai and Vera who have unfinished business, the expedition becomes fraught with events that can’t be explained through science. The Counted is a one-hour drama series with elements of paranormal and sci-fi genres intertwined in the unique geographical, tribal, and social setting of Karelia, Russia.

Dark World - Equilibrium (2014)
Dark World - Equilibrium (2014)
Dark World - Equilibrium

Margosha (2009)
Margosha (2009)
In the life of the editor-in-chief of the glossy magazine Gosha, a shock occurs after meeting a girl named Karina. Once among the victims, the girl comes up with a rather sophisticated revenge plan and goes to the witch. The next morning, Gosha wakes up and discovers that he has become a woman himself.

Penultimate Instance (2021)
Penultimate Instance (2021)
Maxim and Valentina work in the Department for the Distribution of Souls — 24 hours before the death of a person, they must determine where he will go — to hell or heaven. And since both are guaranteed paradise under an employment contract, Maxim is trying to earn extra money and sell a place in paradise to oligarchs, and Valentina dreams of returning her husband from hell.

Alice's Dreams (2023)
Alice's Dreams (2023)
A small northern town with a secret military facility nearby. There is an ordinary school, hospital and shop here, but any visitor will feel something strange. A girl named Alice lives in this city. She has problems with her mother and at school, and she also has terrible dreams that predict the future. Alice dreams of running away from home with her only friend. But is it possible to get out of a city that has never let anyone go?

Headshot (2023)
Headshot (2023)
High school student Denis is an amateur gamer and an ordinary teenager who communicates with network users much better than with his peers at school. When the situation becomes critical, his own video game avatar comes to the rescue. IIIRAM helps the hero gain self-confidence, even if his methods are questionable and his advice is often unethical. Denis aka IIIRAM receives an offer from the world of professional eSports, and his life changes dramatically: the first money, new acquaintances and a chance to get the attention of a girl that he had never even dreamed of before.

Darknet (2022)
Darknet (2022)
Future. People have the opportunity to choose in which of the worlds to live — in the real or in the virtual. In an alternate reality called the Darknet, there is everything — drugs, sex, arms and human trafficking, and even death. However, even in this world, people remain themselves, with their values and weaknesses.

Ангел или демон (2013)
Ангел или демон (2013)
