Russian
The film proceeds in chronological order, apart from the scene at the beginning of the first episode before the opening credits, which was taken from Winter 1997.The film begins in 1989 when Sergeant Alexander Sasha Belov, nicknamed Bely, or white has finished his national service in the Soviet Border Troops, and returns to his home in Moscow. He is greeted there by his three childhood friends, Kosmos Kholmogorov or Kosmos KosSpace, Viktor Pchyolkin PchyolaBee, and Valery Filatov FilPhil. His return, however, shows that perestroika has deeply transformed the Soviet Union life and both Kosmos and Pchyola have turned to criminal racket on Moscows markets. They try to lure Sasha to join them, but Belov abruptly refuses and instead has ambitions to attain higher education in vulcanology. ........
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