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.
August 1, 1972 in Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
24 July 1964, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
August 8, 2009 in Russia
19 March 1985, Gorky, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]
September 3, 1946 in Abakan, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Khakassia, Russia]
August 21, 1989 in Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Tatarstan, Russia]
March 12, 1941 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
September 3, 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
December 7, 1955 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]

