NTV will start airing the miniseries Pervyi Otdel (First Division) on November 16, a show based on real events that looks at the daily life of Russia’s Investigative Committee, giving audiences a peek behind the headlines of the crimes it investigates.
Yuri Bragin (Ivan Kolesnikov), an investigator of the most important cases at the First Division of St. Petersburg’s Investigative Committee, returns to the city after a year-long assignment and finds that his current boss is retiring. Bragin will likely be the one to replace him, but he prefers fieldwork and is fully immersed in investigating the brutal murder of two young women. The head of the city department where he is reassigned is Bragin’s longtime enemy, pushing back against him by any means.