Under Military Law (Russian: По законам военного времени, romanized: Po zakonam voennogo vremeni,Ukrainian: За законами воєнного часу) is a Russian - Ukrainian military - historical detective television series directed by Maxim Mekheda, Yevgeny Serov and Sergey Vinogradov [ru], produced by the Star Media film company.
[2] As of May 6, 2022, a total of five seasons of the television series have been released in Russia, including forty-four episodes.
The plot is based on the work of employees of the Soviet military prosecutor's office and investigative agencies during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and after the Victory.
Four main characters are in the center of the story: residents of Kiev, foreman Grigory Fedorenko (whose family died under bombing in the first days of the war), investigator of the Kiev military prosecutor's office Ivan Rokotov (veteran of the First Cavalry Army ), his old acquaintance, assistant to the Chief Military Prosecutor, brig military lawyer from Moscow Nikolai Mirsky and investigator of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Red Army Svetlana Elagina (Mirsky's younger sister).
In the second season, Ivan Rokotov and Svetlana Elagina are united by marriage.