Katran. Major Cherkasov's new case - Russian detective series from 2020 by Sergei Korotayev
All series about Major Cherkasov Ivan Petrovich - chief of criminal one of the district departments of Moscow are based on real events. Many of these high-profile crimes were classified because of their incompatibility with the image of the USSR as a country of victorious socialism. After all, as we know, under socialism, crime is steadily decreasing and tends to zero. But this is only in theory. And in practice it was not so rosy. Crime in the Soviet Union was, and as we can now see from open sources is not weak. But as the hero of the cult movie Soviet soap opera Gleb Zheglov: "Law and order in a country is determined not by the number of thieves, but by the ability of the authorities to neutralize them. And with this in the country of victorious socialism was in good order. Soviet detectives were characterized by high professionalism and often worked for the idea of cleaning society from crime. Major Cherkasov is a collective image of a real operative. He is not chasing positions and ranks, and honestly fulfills his duty. He has his own opinion and knows how to defend it, which is not very much like the leadership. Therefore, at his serious age, he is still a major and head of the threat of the district department. While his other classmates are already colonels and even generals. But Cherkasov is not interested in office and administrative work. He is an operative, and his place on earth....
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