Fast train N34 went exactly on schedule. The passengers were quietly getting ready for bed when the empty compartment from the outstanding cigarette lit up the curtain. Soon the wagon caught fire. Disaster is imminent. Railwaymen and passengers are working together to prevent misfortune and save hundreds of people…

There's a guy sitting behind bars in prison. Through the bars, he keeps yelling: "Hey, somebody!" A girl appears at his shouting... She tells him that a bunch of people from the neighboring town are going to kill him for raping a woman. The guy tells the girl about himself: he's a vagrant because he's bored living in one place. He's very lonely. But the girl is essentially just as lonely. This brings the young people together and creates sympathy between them. The boy sends the girl away for a revolver, but when she leaves, the armed husband of the allegedly raped woman appears. The guy explains to him how it happened: the woman called him herself, but when he didn't give her money, she made a fuss. The husband believes the guy, but out of cowardice in front of his friends shoots and kills him.

The recidivist Vorobyov planned the robbery of the jewelry department of a department store, while he himself went to serve time in a penal colony to provide himself with an alibi. The accomplices hid a suitcase with gold jewelry worth more than 300,000 rubles (at that time). However, later it was not there, and the accomplices of the robbery began to die one by one.

A young philologist works in his teacher's archive, and he manages to decipher Pushkin's priceless autograph. The discoverer, inspired by success, forgets about everything in the world. And the incredible happens: under mysterious circumstances, the archive disappears. Now the scientist needs to defend his good name - and not only among colleagues.

The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.

Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.

In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.