Best Russian fantasy series

Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.

A grim drama that unfolds against the backdrop of a global catastrophe. An unknown new virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. Money loses its value and those not yet infected struggle desperately for food and survival.

The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.

Grandpa Slava is the oldest of the Midland vampire family. They live quietly. They live by the law. They live the unremarkable life of an ordinary Russian family and they never kill humans – ever. Although, of course, everyone knows they drink blood. And when some lifeless corpses are found in a birch grove near Smolensk... their peaceful life falls under threat.

5 youths give chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them. The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chornobyl. With every kilometer the journey of the heroes becomes more dangerous and confusing.

In the near future, life on earth is destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe. Russian military fights off hoards of remaining humans controlled by aliens and work to prevent a successful invasion by an alien force set on conquering the plant.

Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and determined to go all the way for the right reasons, main hero Valerka, arrives at summer camp ‘Thunderbird’ for 3 weeks of carefree recreation. Little brave boy secretly aim to discover the reason behind his brother death. Harmless and eternal journey begins to turn around when he soon discovers that one of his roommates is actually sucking the blood. Now, the independent hero must team up to find out how the vampires ended up in a Soviet summer camp, how to destroy them, and who actually killed his brother. Upon the way, Valerka learn how to trust, meet friends and sacrifice himself to the one he truly fell in love. The cost of everyone`s freedoms turned him into a vampire. Has he turned into a monster forever?

A fantasy drama infused with music and horror fables based on the real story of the 'King and Jester', a cult Russian punk-rock band, enormously popular in the 1990-2000s. The show goes along the band's rocky road to success and tells the story of its polarizing-natured frontman Michael Gorshenev and his tragic death in 2013. Tricksters, evil spirits, noblemen, and other characters of the 'King and Jester' song verse make their way into the lives of Gorshenev and his bandmates.

Farmer Nikolay has long ago settled on Mars with his family. He leads a peaceful life and tends to his robot-aided farmstead until the Head of a large corporation comes to Mars to get rid of the village and launch a new production line.

For the last three years police Lieutenant Mikhail Solovyev has been chasing a maniac. The capital is petrified by this scourge of society who is leaving dead bodies in his wake. At the moment of his capture and arrest, a maniac crashes into Mikhail, causing the lieutenant`s death...Soloviev comes back to life after the accident and discovers that he has moved back in time and ended up in 1979 in his father`s body. Understanding nothing about this acci- dent, the lieutenant is trying to adapt to his new life. Coincidently, he works as a soviet police officer at the same time he is discover- ing his chances to get back...

Russian scientists have created an android policeman. Perfect in all respects, Captain Anna Nikolaevna Korolkevich goes to serve in a provincial city to see real life and become a human. Colleagues think that Anna Nikolaevna is the daughter of the deputy minister, and nothing portends trouble until humanization goes too far.

Lyokha, a former police sniper with post-traumatic stress disorder, in the midst of an alcoholic binge learns about the fatal illness of his sister Katya. Katya does not want her daughter to be sent to an orphanage after death, and asks Lyokha to take up her head so that he becomes a guardian for an eight-year-old girl. Lyokha has already lost many close people in his life, so he does everything to help his sister: he picks up old connections and gets a job at the police station. The area turns out to be difficult. The criminals that Lyokha must catch are fairy-tale characters: the Serpent Gorynych, Baba Yaga and other evil spirits. And if the former sniper does not have problems with the capture of villains, then attempts to become a good guardian become a real test for Lyokha.

A drug company, attempting to create a perfect human race, releases a virus which proves to be deadly. People are dying by the thousands, but eleven strangers, who wake up in a bunker with no memory of how they got there, find themselves responsible for determining the future of all mankind.

The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.

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.

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.

In Ancient Russia, where there are modern technologies — from cybernetic implants and plasma weapons to exoskeletons and giant robots — a half-breed hero named Cyberslav is trying to unravel a brutal crime in order to find out who was prevented by the princely family — angry people or evil spirits that infested the local forests.

Andrey drives a cab, but he’s no ordinary Taxi driver. All his passengers are dead. His job is to deliver them to the Afterlife, but it’s never straightforward. Andrey’s passengers come from all walks of life and each has a story, they can’t reach their destined afterlife until they face-up to and atone for something from their past. But it’s a rare soul who wants to hold a mirror up to their faults, they need a guide, some encouragement, and so they turn to the only other presence in the taxi, Andrey. Andrey himself is an enigma, a taciturn driver who exists only in the present, and a reluctant guide for lost souls. Each time Andrey successfully delivers a lost soul from limbo, a mysterious number on the taxi-meter counts down one by one. And with each soul’s story a little bit more of Andrey’s past is revealed. Are the Passengers the only souls seeking redemption?

Terminally ill surgeon Kirill finds a job in a clinic where doctors struggle with supernatural phenomena. The only way to survive is to show his best side and convince the new management that the hospital needs him. Kirill plunges into the intricacies of the relationships of people, witches and demons, increasingly doubting that he is able to correctly determine who exactly represents good and who is evil here. The diagnosis is imperfect, and the enemy may be someone who initially did not seem to them. To avoid such mistakes, Kirill and his colleagues will have to spend a lot of time studying the circumstances of patients' illnesses.

Moscow, year 1982. Scientist Matvey Pyotrovsky creates a time machine and conducts a scientific experiment, which divides the apartment in two parts. It's first part is left in the 80-s with the professor, while the second one is transported to year 2020 to a modern family: businessman Sergey, his wife Svetlana and daughter Kristina. This kind of coliving creates a lot of trouble for everybody, since layering of two times means each of the families has lost access to the other part of the apartment. But problems don't end there: inventor's grandson Pavel, after waiting for 38 years, tries to prevent one tragic incident.

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.

"My student spirit" is a story about a student and a little afterlife. The series tells about the ghost of a student and his living friend, who are forced to help each other in order to achieve a common goal — to leave the institute.

Former priest Sergius, removed from the ministry in the church, became a hunter for evil spirits. In the course of the hunt, he encounters investigator Catherine, who is just about to get acquainted with the world of the supernatural. Sergius and Katya become a team and together they begin to fight against folklore villains - Koshchei, Bayun and others.

The messenger of death appears on Earth and under the name of Pavel they come to people with a warning. Death makes no exceptions for anyone, and thanks to Pasha, they can correct the mistakes of life before their last breath. Of course, if they believe that death is near. With each new mission, the herald grows more sympathetic to these strange people, and appreciates his work less and less. He doesn't know what love is, but he falls in love. He does not know what humor is, but he laughs more and more often. He does not know what life is, but every time he delays the moment of departure of his wards.

The terrible secret of the Guardians is open. The sinkhole of the earth in an abandoned mountain monastery has released a force that threatens all life on Earth. A power struggle has unfolded in parallel worlds, everyone is playing their own deadly game, and it is impossible to understand who is the enemy and who is the friend. There is only one chance for salvation. But for the last Hope, you need strong Faith and passionate Love.

The series takes place in a small Russian town where a deadly virus appears. Most of the inhabitants die, only a few people remain alive, who are affected by sleeping sickness: people cannot wake up on their own, and after two hours of sleep they fall into a coma.

Fyodor is an ordinary guy who discovers a mysterious gift. He is being followed by people in desperate need to find closure from their past. One little inconvenience- they are ghosts. And the only way to get rid of them is for Fyodor to help them find what is holding them off on Earth and help them make a final departure. Things get even more complicated when Fyodor's own father appears on his doorstep. He was only nineteen when he died, and his closure is the fact that he left behind a son that he didn't really get to know.

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.

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.

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.

The October Revolution hadn't happened, and the Bolsheviks had never risen to power. The year is 2023, and the rule over the Russian Empire is divided between tzar Nikolai III and a forward-thinking PM, Dmitry Orlov. Erast Fandorin, a 20-year-old police servant, has just been hired in the criminal investigations unit at the Petrograd Metro. His job is not that exciting, but the latest news is: right at the heart of the capital, a young and wealthy oil company tycoon has just shot himself in front of dozens of men. His suicide was captured on the patrol robot cameras. Fandorin can't help but suspect that this case is far more complicated than it looks and takes on his very first major investigation

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.

Alisa Selezneva is a 12-years-old schoolgirl living on the Earth in 2093. Together with her friends, she explores the world of the future, traveling in space and having incredible adventures.

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.

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.

An experienced virologist, Anya Markova, gives up her personal and professional life in Moscow and moves to work at a research center in Novosibirsk. She is clearly trying to escape from some personal pain, but in a new place fate throws the heroine another test - an outbreak of an unknown disease is recorded at the site of an illegal dump of a large meat processing plant in a remote village.

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.

Their abilities can give the world a chance - or destroy it. Historical fantasy about the power of love and destruction

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.

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"

The story is about the adventures of an ordinary schoolboy Petya and his friend Wolf, who connects the world of people with the world of fairy tales. Petya helps the magical heroes solve their magical problems that require a non-standard approach.

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 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

They are neither adults nor kids - somewhere in between, living in their separate boys and girls cozy dorms and doing whatever they love to do - inventors, artists, poets, mechanists, scientists and....just dreamers! These enthusiastic and creative folks enjoy their half-adult, half-childish lifestyles and entertain each other with the different tricks and practical jokes. The main hero stands out of the crowd - while the others try to live the normal life socializing as they can, he can never be rested, always coming up with the different unpredictable and unexpected moves, which always make viewers burst with laugh....

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.

After celebrating his 35th birthday, time for Andrey begins to go in the opposite direction: every new day is the previous one for him. In order to return to the real flow of time, Andrey needs to correct the mistakes he made in the past.

One of the main states of Curtiana is Talig, whose throne was seized by the Ollar dynasty. The legitimate heir takes refuge in the city-state of Agaris, where the head of the local church rules. He dreams of overthrowing the Ollars one day and reclaiming the throne that rightfully belongs to him.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Cookie, Pudding and Candy are kitten siblings whose favorite things are sweet treats and letting their curiosity lead them on adventures in learning.

A group of treasure hunters are looking for a galleon Gloria and find it... And not only it...