Spetsnaz is a 2002 Russian TV miniseries directed by Andrei Malyukov.

Overview

The series is set mostly in Russia and follows the adventures of four members of the GRU

GRU

GRU or Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye is the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation...

 spetsnaz

Spetsnaz

Spetsnaz, Specnaz tr: Voyska specialnogo naznacheniya; ) is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "force of special purpose"...

 (judging by uniforms worn by the characters). The locations also switch frequently and have also included Chechnya

Chechnya

The Chechen Republic , commonly referred to as Chechnya , also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria , is a federal subject of Russia . It is located in the southeastern part of Europe in the Northern Caucasus mountains. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny...

, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

, Dagestan

Dagestan

The Republic of Dagestan is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and the largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea...

, and Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

.

Through the course of the series, the characters have done everything from rescuing shot-down pilots in Chechnya to rescuing the passengers and crew of a hijacked Aeroflot

Aeroflot

OJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines , commonly known as Aeroflot , is the flag carrier and largest airline of the Russian Federation, based on passengers carried per year...

 plane grounded in Afghanistan.

Cast

The following are recurring characters in the show

• Aleksandr Baluyev - Major Platov, the hardened veteran unit commander
• Aleksei Kravchenko
  Aleksei Kravchenko
  Aleksei Yevgenyevich Kravchenko is an actor perhaps best known for his role in the 1985 film Come and See as a young boy in the resistance army. He was 14 when filming started. He applied to the Shchukin Theatre School in 1991 and graduated in 1995...
  
   - Captain 'Doc' Vyazemsky
• Vladislav Galkin
  Vladislav Galkin
  Vladislav Galkin was a Russian actor in theatre and cinema.-Death:Galkin was known to indulge in alcohol for some time before his death, and it definitely played a major role in his demise, thought until recently to be the only role. But, there is a new twist to the case...
  
   - Senior Lieutenant 'Yakut' Urmanov
• Igor Lifanov - Senior Warrant Officer Khrustalyov AKA 'Krust'