Mikhail Zharkovsky

Leaving the seaside town at the end of the Great Patriotic War, the SS men hid lists of secret agents. A few years later, Sam Page, a former fascist mercenary Semyon Paygin, and two other agents come to the USSR in order to search for the archive. After all, the crimes of SS agents have no statute of limitations.

The trial of political prisoners is taking place in the Kutaisi prison. They face hanging or life imprisonment. In order to release them from prison, a party figure, nicknamed "Chagara" and a revolutionary woman, "Vardo", aka Nato Nakashidze-Volfisa, come to the city. She rents a house near the prison, supposedly to open a knitting workshop. Will they be able to escape?

Scientist creates a machine that is able to clone human beings. Soon the Government wants to take hold of it for military purposes.

In one small provincial town lives Savva Kulikov. In ordinary life, he is an exemplary Soviet citizen and an up-and-coming economist, but Kulikov has an unusual hobby — he trains his own pets, teaching them many amusing stunts. Among the "pupils" Savva already have a dog, a cat and even a parrot. One day the chimpanzee gets into Savva's hands. The animal was easy to train, with dexterity performing all the tricks of Kulikov, and he decided that his hobby should go to a new, more serious stage - performance in public. Circus friends help Savva break into the circus arena. The main character performs with his monkey in a local circus and the show was an incredible success, breaking a storm of applause from a grateful public.

Maxim Isaev, un espion soviétique opérant en Allemagne nazie sous le nom de Max Otto von Stierlitz, infiltré depuis les années 30 au sein du SD, le service de renseignement allemand, reçoit une mission au cours du printemps 1945 : découvrir qui, au sein du personnel politique de l'Allemagne hitlérienne, cherche des contacts côté Alliés dans le but de signer une paix séparée avec ces derniers, et ainsi continuer la lutte à l'Est.