Maria Arkhipova

How are you going to stop the explosions? In order to accuse a person of such level, you need solid evidence. A systematic approach, not this performance of yours! Maria Arkhipova to Igor Grom Lieutenant General Maria Andreevna Arkhipova is a lieutenant general who arrived from Moscow to carry out reform of the St. Petersburg police. Appearance A slender woman with blond hair and blue eyes.

Synopsis Police Major Igor Grom is known throughout St. Petersburg for his tough character and uncompromising attitude towards lawbreakers of all stripes. Incredible strength, analytical mind and incorruptibility - all this makes Major Grom the ideal policeman who knows no bounds in the fight against crime. But everything changes dramatically with the appearance of a man in the Plague Doctor mask. Having declared that the city is "sick with the plague of lawlessness", he begins "treatment" by killing criminals who managed to escape punishment with the help of money and connections. Society is agitated. The police are powerless. The highest circles are furious. For the first time, Igor Grom encounters difficulties in an investigation, the results of which determine the peaceful existence of an entire city... Plot St. Petersburg police major Igor Grom pursues three armed bank robbers wearing masks of the Meteor hockey team from the Soviet cartoon "Puck! Puck!" who have stolen an armored car. He manages to detain them, but in doing so, the major causes damage to the city - he knocks down a monument to the first police chief of St. Petersburg and damages the paving stones on Palace Square. The head of the department, Colonel General Fyodor Prokopenko, reprimands Igor and almost fires him. Soon after, the trial of the "rich kid" Kirill Grechkin, who fatally ran over Liza Makarova, a girl from an orphanage, begins. Major Grom, who arrested Grechkin, is also present at the trial. Despite the evidence against the accused, he is unexpectedly acquitted, which greatly outrages the public and Igor Grom himself, while the dead girl's brother, Lyosha Makarov, suspects the court of corruption. The court's decision also infuriates the young IT millionaire and philanthropist Sergei Razumovsky, founder of the social network "Vmeste", and his friend and bodyguard Oleg Volkov, who grew up in the same orphanage as Liza Makarova. Soon after, the Plague Doctor appears - an avenger in a mask and a combat suit with bombs and flamethrowers, who intends to "cleanse" the city of scoundrels. He commits murder

commits the murder of Kirill Grechkin, whom he burns alive in his own car. After the murder, Oleg comes to Razumovsky and confesses that he was the Doctor. Razumovsky is alarmed by this, but does not dare to betray his friend. Igor Grom, who accidentally witnessed the murder, tries to investigate it and find the Plague Doctor, who soon commits another murder. His second victim was Olga Isaeva, the head of RosGarantBank, who deceived depositors. The murder itself was committed live on the social network Vmeste, after which many now consider the Doctor a hero and a people's avenger. Meanwhile, FSB officer Yevgeny Strelkov, who came from Moscow to catch the killer, removes the major from the case. Instead, Grom and the new trainee Dmitry Dubin assigned to him are sent to investigate the disappearance of twelve refrigerators. However, Grom and his partner, contrary to their official assignment, actually continue to work on the Plague Doctor's case, having received a tip from Booster Ignat, Grom's informant, and unsuccessfully trying to knock information out of people connected with the criminal world. Eventually, Grom guesses to ask Razumovsky about the source of the murder broadcast, and goes to his office. However, Sergey, although he treats Igor favorably, says that it is technically impossible even for him to track the source of the broadcast, since the Vmeste social network is completely anonymous. In the meantime, the major saves a stranger from hooligans in the gateway of his house. In reality, she turns out to be the famous journalist and investigative video blogger Yulia Pchyolkina: she staged this "attack" in order to gain the major's trust and find out the materials of the Plague Doctor case for her video blog. Later, Grom enters her house and threatens to put her in jail if something like this happens again, having first washed her laptop in the sink.

Meanwhile, the Plague Doctor continues his series of murders: this time, he burns alive Philip Zilchenko, the owner of a landfill that has a detrimental effect on the ecology of one of the city's districts, along with his wife and son. The fact that innocent members of the Zilchenko family were killed makes many peaceful protesters disillusioned with the Doctor's "mission", and Razumovsky, horrified by Oleg's actions, begs him to stop, but he does not even think of stopping. Dubin comes to visit Igor and puts forward a theory that the Doctor's next appearance should be expected at the opening of the Golden Dragon casino, where all of St. Petersburg's "cream of society" will gather. Igor manages to get an expensive suit and a car and sneak into the opening party, where he also meets Pchyolkina and Razumovsky. But, contrary to expectations, instead of the real Plague Doctor, ordinary copycat bandits burst into the party, who simply want to rob the rich. Sergei tries to dissuade them by offering money, but in the end it comes to a fight, in which Grom and the FSB officers who came to help tie up the bandits. Grom and Razumovsky are filled with mutual respect, while they quarrel with Dubin, who, under pressure from Strelkov, "handed over" the major's investigation to the FSB officer. Strelkov forces Igor to resign from the police.

Despite being fired, Igor does not stop working on the case and decides to study the past of his new acquaintance. Back in the casino, Yulia told Igor about Sergey's contract with the foreign corporation "Holt International", which is engaged in high-tech developments in the field of weapons, which is very unusual for the field of activity of a philanthropist and founder of a social network. During the investigation, Grom learns that Razumovsky grew up in the same orphanage as Grechkin's victim. As a child, Sergey was very withdrawn and did not make friends with anyone except Oleg Volkov, and also often drew birds in his notebooks that were suspiciously very similar to the Plague Doctor. Igor also finds out the subject of Razumovsky's contract with Holt International: it was this corporation that created the Plague Doctor's suit and equipment. Grom comes to Razumovsky's skyscraper, shows him the contract with Holt International and his childhood drawings, after which he makes him confess that he is the Plague Doctor. Sergei suddenly realizes that this is true: "Oleg" has been his second personality all this time - Grom points out that, according to official documents, the real Oleg Volkov died in the war in Syria a year ago. Sergei knocks Grom out with a blow to the head, after which he tries with all his might to fight the dark side of his personality, but ultimately fails: the dark side gets the better of him and takes over his body and mind. Razumovsky puts the Plague Doctor costume on Igor and plants him near the site of his next murder: his fourth victim was Albert Bekhtiev, the owner of the Golden Dragon casino. The police grab Grom, and Strelkov now believes that Igor was the killer.

Dima and Yulia help Igor escape from custody and hide at Prokopenko's dacha. After a short stay there, Igor Grom goes to fight the Plague Doctor, but forbids his comrades from helping him in this, and even locks Dubin in the storeroom. Pchyolkina hugs Grom and discreetly places a recording bug under his jacket. When Igor arrives at the "Doctor"-Razumovsky, the latter almost immediately publishes a new video online: he calls on all his "followers" to take to the streets with weapons and lynch everyone they consider villains. Spontaneous pogroms immediately begin in the city. Razumovsky confesses to Igor that he wants to get rid of not only dishonest officials and "spoiled" rich people, but also the pogromists themselves, whom he considers immoral imitators: according to his plan, the state will be forced to bring troops into the city and kill them, and Razumovsky himself will subsequently be able to make St. Petersburg an "ideal city" without corrupt elites and aggressive marginals. A fight begins between Grom and Razumovsky, in which the Doctor almost wins, but Dubin and Pchyolkina come to Grom's rescue. Razumovsky is neutralized, and Yulia has already managed to edit a video about the identity of the Plague Doctor and record his boast with the disclosure of plans to the major with the help of a bug, which will become direct evidence of the guilt of the self-proclaimed Plague Doctor. Preparing to hand the Doctor over to the police, Grom tells him that he also sees problems in the country, but considers it unacceptable to solve them through mass murder. Meanwhile, the pogroms quickly subside when football fans led by Booster Ignat speak out against the rioters, and Lyosha Makarov, who participated in them, is going to kill the corrupt judge who released Grechkin. But when his grandchildren come to see the judge, Lyosha realizes that he is not capable of committing murder, especially in front of children, and ultimately spares the judge. Only after the incident with the Plague Doctor do the authorities make a statement that the system needs changes, and announce

about the beginning of a large-scale judicial reform. In the finale, FSB agent Strelkov takes all the credit for catching the Doctor, and Grom spends time with his new friends on the roof of one of St. Petersburg's houses, where a romance flares up between him and Pchyolkina. The first post-credits scene shows Sergei Razumovsky being placed in a prison-type psychiatric hospital under the care of Dr. Veniamin Rubinstein, who takes a genuine interest in his patient's mental state. The "Dark Side," now in its true form and named Bird, speaks to Sergei again, assuring him that "they" will soon be free. The second scene shows Oleg Volkov in a militant camp in Syria - it turns out that he is alive after all and sees a report on TV about the arrest of a childhood friend. St. Petersburg police major Igor Grom pursues three armed bank robbers wearing masks of the Meteor hockey team from the Soviet cartoon "Puck! Puck!", who have stolen an armored car. He manages to detain them, but in doing so, the major causes damage to the city - he knocks down a monument to the first police chief of St. Petersburg and damages the paving stones on Palace Square. The head of the department, Colonel General Fyodor Prokopenko, reprimands Igor and almost fires him. Soon after, the trial of the "rich kid" Kirill Grechkin, who fatally ran over a girl from an orphanage, begins. Major Grom, who arrested Grechkin, is also present at the trial. Despite the evidence against the accused, he is unexpectedly acquitted, which outrages the public and Igor Grom himself, and the dead girl's brother, Lyosha Makarov, suspects the court of corruption. The court's decision also infuriates the young IT millionaire and philanthropist Sergei Razumovsky, founder of the social network Vmeste, and his friend and bodyguard Oleg Volkov, who grew up in the same orphanage as the dead girl. After this, the Plague Doctor is announced - an avenger in a mask and combat suit with bombs and flamethrowers, who intends to "cleanse" the city of the

from the scoundrels. The Doctor kills Kirill Grechkin by burning him alive in a car. After the murder, Oleg comes to Razumovsky and confesses that he was the Doctor. Razumovsky is alarmed by this, but does not dare to betray his friend. Igor Grom, who accidentally witnessed the murder, tries to investigate it and find the Plague Doctor, who soon commits another murder. This time, his victim was Olga Isaeva, the head of RosGarantBank, who deceived depositors. The murder itself was committed live on the social network Vmeste, after which many began to consider the Doctor a hero and a people's avenger. Meanwhile, FSB officer Yevgeny Strelkov, who came from Moscow to catch the killer, removes Major Grom from the case, instead Grom and the new trainee assigned to him, Dmitry Dubin, are sent to investigate the disappearance of twelve refrigerators. Grom and his partner, however, contrary to their official assignment, actually continue to work on the Doctor's case, having received a tip from Booster Ignat, Grom's informant, and unsuccessfully trying to knock information out of people connected with the criminal world. Eventually, Grom guesses to ask Razumovsky about the source of the murder broadcast and goes to his office, but Razumovsky, although he treats Grom favorably, says that it is technically impossible even for him to track down the source, since the Vmeste social network is completely anonymous. In the meantime, the major saves a stranger from hooligans in the gateway near his house. In reality, she turns out to be journalist and investigative video blogger Yulia Pchyolkina: she staged this "attack" to gain the major's trust and find out the case materials about the masked killer for her video blog.

The Plague Doctor continues his series of murders: this time he burns alive Philip Zilchenko, the owner of a landfill that has a detrimental effect on the ecology of one of the city's districts, along with his wife and son. The fact that innocent members of the Zilchenko family were killed makes many peaceful protesters disillusioned with the Doctor's "mission", and Razumovsky, horrified by Oleg's actions, begs him to stop, but he does not even think of stopping. At a meeting with Grom, Dubin puts forward a theory that the Doctor's next appearance should be expected at the opening of the Golden Dragon casino, where all of St. Petersburg's "cream of society" will gather. Igor manages to get into the opening party, where he also meets Pchyolkina and Razumovsky. Contrary to expectations, instead of the real Doctor, ordinary copycat bandits burst into the party, who simply want to rob the rich. Sergei tries to dissuade them from violence by offering money, but in the end it comes to a fight, in which Grom and the FSB officers who arrived to help neutralize the bandits. Grom and Razumovsky are imbued with mutual respect, while they quarrel with Dmitry Dubin, who, under pressure from Strelkov, "handed over" the major's investigation to the FSB officer. Strelkov forces Igor to resign from the police. Despite his dismissal, Igor does not stop working on the case and decides to study the past of his new acquaintance. Back in the casino, Yulia Pchyolkina told the major about Sergei Razumovsky's contract with the foreign corporation Holt International, which is engaged in high-tech developments in the field of weapons, which is unusual for the philanthropist and founder of the social network. During his own investigation, Igor Grom discovers that Razumovsky grew up in the same orphanage as Grechkin's victim, that Sergei was very withdrawn as a child and was not friends with anyone except Oleg Volkov, and that he often drew birds in his notebooks that looked very much like the Plague Doctor. He also finds out the subject of Razumovsky's contract with Holt International: it was this corporation that created the suit and equipment

Plague Doctor. Grom comes to Razumovsky's skyscraper, shows him his childhood drawings and a contract with Holt International, and forces him to confess that he is the Plague Doctor. Sergei suddenly realizes that this is true: "Oleg" was only his second personality - Grom points out that, according to official documents, the real Oleg Volkov died in the war in Syria a year before all the events. Razumovsky's dark side takes over. He knocks Grom out with a blow to the head, puts the Doctor's suit on him and throws him near the site of his latest murder. The police detain Grom, and Strelkov now believes that Igor is the killer. Dmitry and Yulia help Grom escape from custody and hide at Prokopenko's dacha. After a short stay there, Igor Grom goes to fight the Plague Doctor, but forbids his comrades to help him, and even locks Dubin in a storage room. During Grom's visit to "Doctor" Razumovsky, the latter immediately publishes a new video online: he calls on all his "followers" to take to the streets with weapons and lynch everyone they consider villains. Spontaneous pogroms immediately begin in the city. Razumovsky admits to Igor that in this way he wants to get rid of not only dishonest officials and "spoiled" rich people, but also the pogromists themselves, whom he considers immoral imitators: according to his plan, the state will be forced to bring in troops and kill them, and Razumovsky himself will subsequently be able to make St. Petersburg an "ideal city" without corrupt elites and aggressive marginals. A fight begins between Grom and Razumovsky, in which the Doctor almost wins, but Dubin and Pchyolkina come to Grom's rescue. Razumovsky is neutralized, and Yulia has already managed to record his boast with the disclosure of his plans to the major on video, which will become direct evidence of the guilt of the self-proclaimed Plague Doctor. Preparing to hand the Doctor over to the police, Grom tells him that he also sees problems in the country, but considers it unacceptable to solve

The doctor is handed over to the police, Grom tells him that he also sees problems in the country, but considers it unacceptable to solve them through mass murder. Meanwhile, the pogroms quickly subside when football fans led by Booster come out against the rioters. Lyosha Makarov, who took part in them, still intends to kill the corrupt judge who released Grechkin, but when his grandchildren enter the judge's room, Lyosha realizes that he is incapable of committing murder, especially in front of children, and ultimately spares the offender. Only after the story with the Plague Doctor do the authorities make a statement that the system needs changes and announce the beginning of judicial reform. In the finale, FSB officer Strelkov takes all the credit for catching the Doctor, and Grom spends time with his new friends on the roof of one of St. Petersburg's houses. The first post-credits scene shows Sergei Razumovsky being placed in a prison-type psychiatric clinic under the care of Dr. Veniamin Rubinstein, who takes a genuine interest in his patient's mental state. The "dark side" speaks to Sergei again, assuring him that "they" will soon be free. The second scene shows Oleg Volkov in a militant camp in Syria - it turns out that he is still alive and watching a report on TV about the detention of a childhood friend.

A year after people learned that it was Major Igor Grom who defeated Sergei Razumovsky, who was a serial killer nicknamed the Plague Doctor, Grom became very popular in St. Petersburg. A monument was erected to him, toys, books, energy drinks were dedicated to him, and even a film was made about him. Grom and his partner, Lieutenant Dmitry Dubin, encounter a prisoner riot led by "Uncle" in the Central Prison of St. Petersburg. However, the partners manage to stop them, after which they are reprimanded on the street by Colonel General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Fyodor Prokopenko and the prison warden Leonid Frolov. While Grom gives an interview and talks with his girlfriend Yulia Pchyolkina, Dubin begins to think that the riot was planned in advance by someone. After all, no one has ever escaped from the Central Prison, and he suspects Frolov of conspiring with the prisoners. While Dubin investigates this case, the rest of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including Grom and Prokopenko, throw a drinking party. Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Lieutenant General Maria Arkhipova arrives in St. Petersburg, deciding to carry out a reform by dismissing employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and replacing them with drones produced by HOLT International, the corporation that previously created the Plague Doctor suit. She offers Prokopenko a deal according to which the staff will be cut if the best employees cannot surpass one drone at the training ground. The head of HOLT International, August van der Holt, personally comes to the competition with his right-hand man Otto Schreiber. Although the drone turned out to be faster than the police, the reform does not take place due to Holt's refusal due to dissatisfaction with the requirements of the contract.

Grom barely makes it to a date with Pchyolkina, which is why they are forced to sit on the roof of a restaurant. While Yulia gives Igor a smartphone, Grom invites her to move in with him. But suddenly a toy car drives up to them, which immediately explodes in front of them, but Grom and Pchyolkina remain unharmed. Igor immediately notices a man in a suit on the roof of a neighboring building, who sent them the car, after which he pursues him, fighting with him. But in the end, Grom falls out of the roof and loses consciousness. During the battle, he managed to notice a brand on his opponent's hand - the inscription "1526". When Igor comes to, the enemy calls him, sounding exactly like Grom, and offers to play "The Game". He says that he planted a bomb "in a seven-letter place" on Palace Square. Grom decides that it is the Hermitage, but suddenly the Alexander Column collapses. The bomber tells Grom to quit the police, then he promises to stop further explosions, but Grom abruptly refuses him. Then the bomber threatens the lives of Igor's friends if anyone finds out about their conversations, and Grom demands that Dubin and Pchyolkin hide from him, which they do, after getting angry at him for this.

Yulia goes to the psychiatric hospital where Razumovsky is being held and tries to find out from Dr. Veniamin Rubinstein information about the man with the brand "1526", having previously disguised herself as Rubinstein's assistant, Sofa. After talking with Pchyolkina, Rubinstein directs her to the "right person", and he himself comes to Razumovsky to give him a sedative. Igor goes to an old acquaintance, former journalist Alexei Prishchurov, to also find out about the brand "1526". He finds out that all people with this brand are members of the "Dead Squad", hired killers working for influential people, including Holt. The bomber calls Grom again and says that he has planted a bomb at the Vitebsk railway station in a storage cell with the code 1703. There is a box there, to open which it is necessary for the breathalyzer lying in the same cell to show 100%. Grom tries to find a drunk person nearby, but does not find one, which is why he has to drink most of the alcohol from the bar at the station himself. When he opens the box, the bomb is not there. Instead, there is a piece of paper with a crossword puzzle, having solved which, Grom decides that the bomb was planted in the circus on Fontanka. Drunk Grom bursts into the circus and throws out the visitors, although the visitors themselves think that Grom has simply gone crazy due to intoxication. The explosion still occurs, but the bomb was in a different place.

After this incident, Igor's popularity plummets and the entire city begins to hate him because of his drunkenness and failure to eliminate the bomb. Grom thinks that HOLT International is behind this and bursts in on Holt during his conversation with Arkhipova. Grom assumes that Schreiber is the bomber, and to make sure of this, Grom tells him to show his hands, on one of which "1526" is tattooed. But there is no brand on any of Schreiber's hands. Prokopenko takes responsibility for what is happening in the city and resigns, handing over his powers to Arkhipova. Dubin, after interrogating "Uncle", learns that Frolov really helped organize the prisoner riot. Dima comes to arrest Frolov, but he immediately gets into his car and tries to escape, but the car suddenly explodes. Dubin understands by the smell that these were explosives from the Plague Doctor's costume and comes to the police station to the evidence warehouse, but discovers that all the explosives are missing. At the same time, Pchyolkina finds a hermit with the same brand as the bomber and learns the truth. The bomber is Oleg Volkov, a childhood friend of Razumovsky, officially considered dead in Syria and performing the services of a hired killer under the call sign "Ghost". The hermit says that he was called that because he can only be seen if he wants to be seen. Holt sends his men, led by Schreiber, to eliminate Volkov because he has been exposed. However, Volkov successfully eliminates all of Holt's men, including Schreiber, by planting and detonating a bomb in his head. Pchyolkina reveals the secret of Prizrak's identity in her video blog, and the police throw all their efforts into finding him. The police go to Volkov's base in an abandoned building, but Grom sees the kidnapped Prokopenko there, with explosives tied to his body. Volkov calls him and says that he violated their agreement, after which he detonates the explosive device, and Prokopenko dies. After the funeral, Grom and Dubin come to Razumovsky and try to beat information out of him.

flash drive with the file "Black Margot", which Razumovsky hid in a hiding place disguised as an electronic cigarette and found by Dubin during the analysis of the materials on the Plague Doctor case. Grom beats up Razumovsky, but the doctors inject Igor with a sedative and take him out of the cell. Rubinstein conducts psychotherapy for Grom, after which he tells him about Razumovsky's split personality, outwardly noticeable by the change in the color of the iris of the eye, and that it was the second personality that committed all the murders in the guise of the Plague Doctor. Volkov bursts into the studio of Channel 78 and declares live on air that he planted bombs in the metro and disabled all police drones. He blames Grom for the explosions because of his refusal to leave the police and promises to disable the detonators if Grom is killed within three hours. After this, mass riots begin in the city. Dima learns that the flash drive contains a virus created by Razumovsky, with the help of which the drones were hacked. Igor wants to surrender to Volkov, feeling that he has let St. Petersburg down, but Yulia and Dima, who have returned, convince him to continue the fight and stop Volkov. To do this, Grom, Pchyolkin and Dubin are taken from Razumovsky's hospital, after which Grom and Razumovsky go to Volkov. Sergey is unhappy that Igor wants to kill Oleg, but Grom reproaches Razumovsky for double standards, recalling his murders. Despite this, Razumovsky says that he will not hesitate to give his life for other people if necessary.

Having infiltrated the studio, Grom confronts Volkov while Razumovsky disables the detonators, stops the timer, and restores the drones' functionality. But suddenly, Razumovsky is possessed by his alternate personality, Bird. Razumovsky reveals to Grom his revenge plan, which he devised a year earlier after Volkov came to free him. The plan was to make Grom the most hated man in the city. In reality, Volkov was behind the prison riot, there were no bombs in the subway to begin with, and Holt was just a pawn to divert suspicion. When Volkov tells Razumovsky to finish off Grom, he suddenly shoots Volkov and reveals the plan to Grom: the drones will now kill anyone who is in any way connected to the major, including joint photographs. Holt bursts into the TV studio in a high-tech supersuit and engages in a fight with Volkov. Meanwhile, the drones break into the police station, killing many police officers. The drones injure Dubin, but he survives thanks to his bulletproof vest. To stop the drone attack, Grom takes a selfie with Razumovsky, and all the drones target them. Razumovsky manages to disable the virus, and the drones fail, but he himself is mortally wounded. Razumovsky dies in Grom's arms, freed from the influence of his evil essence. Petersburgers mourn the dead, Volkov is taken into custody, and Grom appears in court. Pchyolkina gives him a piece of paper with text, but Grom refuses to read it, admits his guilt, and declares his decision to leave the police.

Maria Arkhipova is a strict woman of about 35, quite stern, but caring and sometimes even overprotective with her loved ones. But always, at work with comrades and codenames, on the street, with the victims, subordinates, she is cold and tough with everyone, only if she falls in love will she be soft