EPISODE
The Optimists - Season 1
The Optimists is a Russian spy drama series that brings a 1960's 'Mad Men' aesthetic to the Nikita Khrushchev-era, set during peak Cold War. The show opens during the 1959 American National Exhibition in Sokolniki and continues to unravel the Russian and American acts of espionage and the personal lives affected by the fragile geopolitical picture.
10 December 1981, Alma-Ata, Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]
August 21, 1989 in Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Tatarstan, Russia]
August 8, 2009 in Russia
September 10, 1972 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
March 12, 1941 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
12 May 1965, Frunze, USSR
August 1, 1972 in Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
September 3, 1946 in Abakan, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Khakassia, Russia]
24 July 1964, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
December 7, 1955 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
October 12, 1976 in Khasavyurt, Dagestan ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Dagestan, Russia]

