The filming of the second season of the series Epidemiya (To The Lake) started on April 6 near Ivanteevka, Moscow region. The series is made by 1-2-3 Production with Valeriy Fedorovich, Evgeny Nikishov and Sergey Kornikhin acting as its producers. Dmitry Tyurin (Trigger, Magomaev) directed the series. The new season will first be released on PREMIER video service.
Live videos from the start of the filming were featured on media facades in Russia’s largest cities. This marked the first time in the history of film and series production that a live stream from a film set was featured on the largest media facades of the MAER media holding across the country. Several thousand pedestrians, public transport passengers and drivers in Moscow, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Perm, Ufa and Chelyabinsk got a look at the first footage from the start of the filming. The minute-long broadcast featured the main tradition of the film industry - the director breaking a plate signed by all members of the film crew on the first day of filming.