Brigada Season 1

Brigada Season 1 has quietly become one of the more dependable crime dramas currently available. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. 110 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Sergey Bezrukov leads a cast that carries the story without ever feeling mechanical. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Brigada Season 1 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. The plotting gives Brigada Season 1 its backbone, but it is the characters you come back for. Season 1 of Brigada includes 15 episodes. It aired from September 2002 to October 2002. This season stars Sergey Bezrukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev and Vladimir Vdovichenkov. Sergey Bezrukov and Dmitriy Dyuzhev lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2002. What makes Brigada Season 1 hold up is that the resolution matters less than how the characters get there. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

For anyone who wants their crime drama to earn its twists, Brigada Season 1 delivers. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Sergey Bezrukov anchors it, but the writing does the real work. If you are going to commit to one crime drama this month, make it this one.

🎬 Brigada Season 1 — Episode Guide

Episode 1

2002-09-23

Sergeant of the border troops of the KGB of the USSR Aleksandr Belov (Sasha Belyy), who is serving on the border with Afghanistan, is transferred to the reserve and returns home to Moscow. He is greeted by three faithful childhood friends - the eccentric major and the son of a professor of astrophys...

Episode 2

2002-09-24

After defeating Mukha, Aleksandr Belov continues to live away from crime, and still plans to enter the Mining Institute. He also goes to buy a dog for himself, during the purchase of which he meets the famous stuntman and film actor Aleksandr Inshakov. Sasha does not suspect that he was on the list ...

Episode 3

2002-09-25

Kosmos, Pchyola and Fil are called by the investigator to testify, during interrogation they deny both Belov's involvement and their presence in the underground fight. Belov, disregarding conspiracy, follows Olya to Moscow, where he is present at her performance at the conservatory. Young people get...

Episode 4

2002-09-26

Cosmos and Phil drive off for alcohol. Summoned by the district police officer, they cordon off the dacha, Sasha refuses to surrender, and shooting begins. Pchela and Belov run away from the dacha into the forest, but Sasha is wounded.

Episode 5

2002-09-30

Sasha and Olya are getting married. Pchyola, Fil and Kosmos give young people an apartment as a gift. But on their wedding night, the young people almost die because of a stretching trap, to which a grenade is attached. Sasha notices the threat in time and almost manages to neutralize it, but becaus...

Episode 6

2002-10-01

Sasha Belyi meets his army friend Farhad, who has become a crime boss in his homeland. Farhad offers an army friend a joint business, White agrees. Kaverin is expelled from the authorities, and Artur is forced to go abroad. At the same time, a coup d'etat begins in the country.

Episode 7

2002-10-02

Sasha returns from America and makes a deal with Farhad and agrees to enter the drug business. Olya gives birth to a son. Kaverin helps to disrupt the deal with the Tajiks.

Episode 8

2002-10-03

Having broken the drug deal, Kaverin begins to play a double game against Belov. After the murder of Farhad, he brings money and drugs to the crime boss Bek, and then "surrenders" Bek to Belov. At the same time, Kaverin passes compromising information on Belov to the special services, however, witho...

Episode 9

2002-10-07

Belov hides his family outside the city. Sasha's mother is dying of a heart attack. Olya is in deep despair. Luka makes another attempt to meet Sasha.

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Episode 10

2002-10-08

A frank conversation takes place between Cosmos and Belov. Cosmos confesses that he killed Mukha in order to save Sasha from certain death. After this conversation, Belov realizes that his friends are still faithful to him. Before leaving for Chechnya, Kaverin openly tells Belov about his hatred. Us...

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Episode 11

2002-10-09

To conclude another deal, Pchela is going to fly to Germany. On the way to the airport, the car in which his friends were traveling exploded. Belov gives the order to urgently find Pchela.

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Episode 12

2002-10-10

Olga meanwhile comes to Anyuta's home and confronts her, forcing to abandon the affair with Sasha, and to return the camera. At the hospital Pchyola is met with Bely and Kosmos holding pistols, they are interrupted by a nurse asking for anyone with Type B negative blood for Fil.

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Episode 13

2002-10-14

Suddenly, Belov finds out that Kaverin is alive, and, having returned from Chechnya, he is going to get involved in big politics. Implacable enemies become rivals in the political arena.

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Episode 14

2002-10-15

Kaverin is trying to overtake the enemy in the election race. Sasha is advised to appear on flyers with his family, he asks Olya for help. At the final stage, Sasha gives a speech that convinces people to make a choice in his favor.

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Episode 15

2002-10-16

Belov is informed of the murder of Phil and his wife Tonya in the hospital. On the day of the funeral of Cosmos, Pchela, Phil and Tonya, the car in which the Belov family was supposed to arrive explodes. Kaverin and Arthur, guarded by Max, are building a shopping center.