Высшая мера: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Yaroslavl, 1974. Two high-profile cases are taking place in the city: first, a recidivist thief Lukin, nicknamed Burelom, is killed with an awl in the ear, and then a mentally ill physicist Kalenov cuts off the head of a neighbor and brings it to the police. Egor Tabolin, an investigator for particularly important cases, is taking over the investigation of the case. He is convinced that twice Hero of the Soviet Union pilot Timofey Kretov, who previously confessed to the murder of Lukin, is innocent, and the woman was obviously killed for a reason. Tabolin realizes that both crimes are connected by an invisible thread that leads to a local psychiatric hospital run by the head physician Mikhail Nagornykh and his deputy Viktor Vaganov. Now the main task of the investigator is not only to sort out these complicated cases and understand what the hospital management has to do with the crimes, but also to catch the elusive killer and achieve capital punishment for the perpetrators.

Series details

• Title: Высшая мера
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Russian
• Genres: Crime, Thriller, History
• Premiere date: 2024-06-24
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: НТВ
• Network country: Russian Federation
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 77926

Cast and credited roles

• Александр Бухаров — Егор Таболин
• Никита Тезин — Долгов
• Игорь Ливанов — Михаил Нагорных
• Светлана Антонова — Татьяна, бывшая жена Таболина
• Юрий Шлыков — Андрей Николаевич Воронец, полковник КГБ
• Валентин Смирнитский — Виктор Ваганов
• Александр Коршунов — Тимофей Кретов
• Владимир Новиков — Степан Григорьевич Шульга, первый секретарь обкома
• Владимир Гусев — Святослав Петрович Гусельников, сотрудник московского архива МВД
• Александр Андриенко — Игнат Савельевич Вересов
• Юрий Круглов — Антон Сергеевич Кнорин
• Игорь Хрипунов — Игорь Хрипунов, Кастет

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2024-06-24; final listed air date 2024-06-29.
• Season 2: premiered 2026-04-20; final listed air date 2026-04-24.

Source and licence

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