EPISODE
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.
December 7, 1955 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
August 1, 1972 in Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
19 March 1985, Gorky, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]
24 July 1964, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
10 December 1981, Alma-Ata, Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]
13 August 1971, Gusev, Gusevskiy rayon, Kaliningradskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
12 May 1965, Frunze, USSR
October 12, 1976 in Khasavyurt, Dagestan ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Dagestan, Russia]
August 21, 1989 in Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Tatarstan, Russia]
March 12, 1941 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
13 July 1980, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
September 3, 1946 in Abakan, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Khakassia, Russia]
August 8, 2009 in Russia
September 10, 1972 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
September 3, 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

