Anatoliy Kotenyov

Trying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.

A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War II and sent to a labor camp in Eastern Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel.

A boy from a remote village overcomes wartime hardships and post-war devastation to establish the Group A anti-terrorist unit, later known as Alpha Group, tracing his journey from a fatherless childhood to founding an elite force.

A young girl falls in love with an experienced soldier.