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.
September 10, 1972 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
September 3, 1946 in Abakan, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Khakassia, Russia]
August 1, 1972 in Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
13 July 1980, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
12 May 1965, Frunze, USSR
10 December 1981, Alma-Ata, Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]
24 July 1964, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
March 12, 1941 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
August 8, 2009 in Russia
October 12, 1976 in Khasavyurt, Dagestan ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Dagestan, Russia]
13 August 1971, Gusev, Gusevskiy rayon, Kaliningradskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
August 21, 1989 in Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Tatarstan, Russia]
September 3, 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
19 March 1985, Gorky, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]
December 7, 1955 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]

