The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Russian: Жизнь и приключения Мишки Япончика, romanized: Zhizn i priklyucheniya Mishki Yaponchika) is a crime television series, based on real events.

Internationally language title is a Once Upon a Time in Odessa.

The film tells the story of the legendary Odesa's Robin Hood, Mikhail (Moshe-Yaakov) Vinnitsky known as Mishka Yaponchik.

The storyline of the series love story woven thief to a local rich man's daughter.

[1] The authors of the series did not pursue the goal to create a thoroughly historically tied now, their goal, a love story based on the works of Isaak Babel.