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

