''Investigation Led by ZnaToKi'', or ''Investigation Led by Experts'' (,
translit. ''Sledstvie vedut ZnaToKi'') was a popular
1971-1989
Soviet
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detective
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TV-series with two
Russia
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n series (2002 and 2003) for a total of 24 episodes.
Main characters — investigator Pavel Znamenski, detective Alexandr Tomin and laboratory analyst Zinaida Kibrit — were acting together under a group name ''ZnaToKi'' (translated as "Experts").
The song by
Mark Minkov based on the lyrics ''Invisible Battle'' (Nezrimiy Boi or ''Our mission is both dangerous and difficult, and most invisible at first glance...'') by
Anatoly Gorokhov features in almost all series. It became an unofficial hymn of the
Soviet Militia
''Militsiya'' ( rus, милиция, 3=mʲɪˈlʲitsɨjə, 5=, ) were the police forces in the Soviet Union until 1991, in several Eastern Bloc countries (1945–1992), and in the Non-Aligned Movement, non-aligned Socialist Federal Republic ...
.
Original cast members
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Georgy Martyniuk
Georgy Yakovlevich Martyniuk ( rus, Георгий Яковлевич Мартынюк, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪtɕ mərtɨˈnʲuk; 3 March 1940 – 13 February 2014) was a Russian film and theater actor.
Biography
Born in Orenbu ...
as Pavel Znamenski, Senior investigator
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Leonid Kanevsky as Aleksandr Tomin, Senior Inspector-detective
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Elza Lezhdey as Zinaida Kibrit, laboratory analystOleg Kashin
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Lidia Velezheva as Kitaeva, laboratory analyst (since 2002, after Elza Lezhdey's death)
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Vera Vasilyeva as Margarita Nikolayevna Znamenskaya, Znamenski's mother
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Semen Sokolovskiy as Colonel Skopin, Chief of Investigation department, Znamenski's boss
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Lev Durov
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as Afanasiy Filippov, Senior Inspector of
GAI (traffic police)
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Anatoly Grachyov as Mikhail Tokarev, Senior Inspector of
OBKhSS (financial police)
Occasional cast
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Boris Ivanov
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Leonid Bronevoy
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Valery Nosik
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Stanislav Chekan
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Biograp ...
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Nikolai Karachentsov
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Leonid Markov
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Iya Savvina
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Leonid Kuravlyov
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Early life
Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a working-class family. His father Vyac ...
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Armen Borisi Dzhigarkhanyan (3 October 193514 November 2020) was a Soviet Union, Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor.
Born and raised in Yerevan, Dzhigarkhanyan started acting in the academic and Russian theaters of the city, before moving to Mos ...
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Alexander Kaidanovsky
Alexander Leonidovich Kaidanovsky (; 23 July 1946 — 2 December 1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director.
His best known roles are in films such as ''Stalker'' (1979)'', At Home Among Strangers'' (1974), and '' The Bodyguard'' (1 ...
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Andrey Kharitonov
TV episodes
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #1: Black Broker / Chyornyy makler (1971)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #2: What Is Your True Name / Vashe podlinnoe imya (1971)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #3: Red-handed / S polichnym (1971)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #4:
A Fault Confessed... / Povinnuyu golovu... (1971)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #5: Dinosaur / Dinozavr (1972)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #6: Blackmail / Shantazh (1972)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #7: Accident / Neschastnyy sluchay (1972)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #8: The Escape / Pobeg (1973)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #9: Witness / Svidetel (1974)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #10: Strike Back / Otvetnyy udar (1975)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #11: At Any Price / Lyuboy tsenoy (1977)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #12: 'Bouquet' Is Standing By / 'Buket' na priyome (1977)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #13: Before the Third Gunshot / Do tretyego vystrela (1978)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #14: Herdsboy With a Cucumber / Podpasok s ogurtsom (1979)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #15: Went and Never Returned / Ushyol i ne vernulsya (1980)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #16: From the Life of Fruits / Iz zhizni fruktov (1981)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #17: He's Somewhere Here / On gde-to zdes' (1982)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #18: Midday Thief / Poludennyy vor (1985)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #19: The Fire / Pozhar (1985)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #20: Boomerang / Bumerang (1987)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #21: Without Knife and
Knuckleduster
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/ Bez nozha i kasteta (1988)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #22: Mafia / Mafiya (1989)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #23: Arbitrator / Treteyskiy sudiya (2002)
* Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Case #24:
Pood
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Of Gold / Pud zolota (2003)
See
:ru:Категория:Следствие ведут ЗнаТоКи for Russian Wikipedia articles on individual episodes.
References
External links
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Episode 09Episode 10Episode 11Episode 12Episode 13Episode 14
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