December 20th

1982
About the show

Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.

First airedMay 18, 1982
StatusEnded
Episodes1 season · 4 episodes
CastKirill LavrovMikhail KozakovAndrei TolubeyevEmmanuil VitorganAnatoliy RudakovOleg PalmovSergey PizhelIgor Komarov+2 more
NetworksCentral Television USSR
GenresDrama
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