Kamenskaya (TV series)
The television series follows the work of an operative officer Anastasiya Kamenskaya [ru] (played by Elena Yakovleva) at the Criminal Investigations Department in Moscow.
Crime has spiraled out of control for law enforcement, and Police Major Anastasiya Kamenskaya conducts investigations into criminal activities.
Frequently, the crimes she investigates involve or are even linked to influential individuals: politicians, businessmen, heads of major criminal organizations.
[1] Major of police Anastasiya Kamenskaya gets a promotion and moves to Petrovka [ru], to the second branch of the Criminal Investigation Department led by Viktor Gordeev.
Eventually, Kamenskaya gets involved in a new investigation: she seeks to find the organizer of underground filming scenes of real murders.
Kamenskaya receives an unusual assignment: she should meet and help a recently released prisoner safely reach Moscow, as he is being pursued by several criminal organizations and private individuals.
After talking to the deceased's friend, she finds out that the secretary provided intimate services to wealthy men and had alcohol problems.
In a secret laboratory, experiments are conducted on people who take a certain balm that enhances work performance.
During a performance by the "BBC" band in a nightclub, a visitor makes rude remarks about the lead singer.
A new series of murders begins in Moscow, with all victims linked by drug addiction and business cards from the same club.
Kamenskaya and her female colleague take part in a teleconference titled "Women in Unusual Professions."
The female detectives start checking their former suspects, and an unknown killer earns the nickname "Jester."
A new governor is elected in the city of Primorsk, but a criminal boss does not want to share power with him and hires a hitman.
Kamenskaya meets the deceased's girlfriend and notices a ring on her hand that was featured in the case of the murder of a high-ranking official's wife.
Kamenskaya goes to Saint Petersburg, where she investigates the murder of a well-known dentist, whose body was found by his son.
During the investigation, it turns out that the young man is the stepson of the dentist: his biological father was the leader of a criminal group shot in the 1980s.
Kamenskaya and Gordeev go to Finland as part of an experience exchange program, and they have an opportunity to showcase their skills in a case.
The murder of a prosecutor's colleague occurs, and a man, who had previously threatened her, is detained on suspicion of committing the crime.
The man's fiancée died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver, but the prosecutor acquitted the culprit in court.
The fiancée of a high-ranking official suddenly disappears in Moscow, and her body is found in the apartment of an employee of a construction company after a day.
A man comes to the detective, claiming that he was supposed to meet the writer shortly before her death because she had information about his father, who was convicted 13 years ago for serial murders.
[8] Additional interior scenes of the first season were shot at the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department located at Petrovka 38.
[10][11] The production of the first season of "Kamenskaya" was considered one of the most expensive on Russian television,[3] with 50% of the funding provided by the publishing house Eksmo.
[13] In 2018, Elena Yakovleva mentioned in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia that there was a possibility of filming the seventh season of "Kamenskaya".
[17] As Marinina later conveyed in an interview with TASS, scripts for a remake were prepared in 2018, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the filming did not start.
