The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

Synopsis

After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...

First Air Date: 1979-11-11

Last Air Date: 1979-11-16

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 5

Created By: Stanislav Govorukhin

Networks: Central Television USSR

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Top Cast

Vladlen Paulus as эксперт-криминалист Родионов
Vladimir Konkin as Vladimir Sharapov
Vladimir Vysotsky as Gleb Zheglov
Sergei Yursky as Груздев
Viktor Pavlov as Левченко
Natalya Fateyeva as Ира Соболевская
Leonid Kuravlyov as «Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)
Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Надя Колесова
Aleksandr Belyavskiy as Евгений Фокс
Evgeniy Evstigneev as Пётр Ручников (вор «Ручечник»)

Seasons

Miniseries (1979)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (1979-11-11)

A young front-line soldier Vladimir Sharapov, sent to serve in the criminal investigation department, gets acquainted with the head of the department - Gleb Zheglov and other members of the Moscow Criminal Investigations Department.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (1979-11-13)

No overview for this episode.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (1979-11-14)

The capture of Fox is one of the tasks that the Mourovians must solve. Part of the events take place in the house where Fox brings to storage stolen things. This "transit point" becomes the place of an ambush. However, a carefully thought out plan is thwarted.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (1979-11-15)

Sharapov begins an autonomous investigation of the Larisa Gruzdeva murder. Meanwhile, the Mourovians are developing a plan to capture Fox at the Astoria restaurant.
Ep. 5: Episode 5 (1979-11-16)

Events develop in the lair of the "Black Cat", where Sharapov gets, trying to get in touch with the bandits. Meanwhile, Zheglov, realizing that "the meeting place can not be changed", prepares the store for a special operation.