EPISODE
The Optimists - Season 1
The Optimists is a Russian spy drama series that brings a 1960's 'Mad Men' aesthetic to the Nikita Khrushchev-era, set during peak Cold War. The show opens during the 1959 American National Exhibition in Sokolniki and continues to unravel the Russian and American acts of espionage and the personal lives affected by the fragile geopolitical picture.
September 10, 1972 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
October 12, 1976 in Khasavyurt, Dagestan ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Dagestan, Russia]
September 3, 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
August 8, 2009 in Russia
24 July 1964, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
September 3, 1946 in Abakan, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Khakassia, Russia]
December 7, 1955 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
13 July 1980, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

