Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
Genre	Detective
Starring	Georgy Martinyuk Leonid Kanevsky Elza Lezhdey
Country	Soviet Union Russia
Language	Russian
Original run	1971 – 2003
No. of episodes	24

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi, or Investigation Held by Experts (Russian: Следствие ведут ЗнаТоКи, translit. Sledstvie vedut ZnaToKi) was a popular 1971-1989 Soviet detective TV-series with two Russian series (2002 and 2003). Total episodes released - 24.

Main characters - investigator-detectives Znamenski, Tomin and Kibrit were acting together under a group name ZnaToKi (translated as "Experts").

Song by Mark Minkov based on the lyrics Invisible struggle (Nezrimiy Boi - If somebody, somewhere among us, sometimes... ) by Anatoly Gorokhov features in almost all series. It became an unofficial hymn of the Soviet Militia.

Original Cast Members

• Georgy Martinyuk as Pavel Znamenski, investigator
• Leonid Kanevsky as Aleksandr Tomin, detective
• Elza Lezhdey as Zinaida Kibrit, laboratory analyst
• Lidia Velezheva as Kitaeva, laboratory analyst (since 2002 series, after Elza Lezhdey's death)
• Vera Vasilyeva as Margarita Nikolayevna Znamenskaya, Znamenski's mother
• Semen Sokolovskiy as Colonel Skopin, Chief of Investigation department
• Lev Durov as Afanasiy Filippov, Chief Inspector of GAI (traffic police)
• Anatoly Grachov as Mikhail Tokarev «Reserve To», Chief Inspector for economical crime investigations

Non-constant cast

• Boris Ivanov
• Yuri Katin-Yartsev
• Leonid Bronevoy
• Grigory Lampe as «Surgeon» Kovalski
• Georgy Menglet
• Valery Nosik
• Stanislav Chekan
• Nikolai Karachentsov
• Leonid Markov
• Iya Savvina
• Leonid Kuravlyov
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
• Alexander Kaidanovsky

TV episodes

• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #1: Black Broker / Chyornyy makler (1971)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #2: What Is Your True Name / Vashe podlinnoe imya (1971)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #3: Red-handed / S polichnym (1971)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #4: A Fault Confessed... / Povinnuyu golovu... (1971)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #5: Dinosaur / Dinozavr (1972)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #6: Blackmail / Shantazh (1972)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #7: Accident / Neschastnyy sluchay (1972)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #8: The Escape / Pobeg (1973)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #9: Witness / Svidetel (1974)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #10: Strike Back / Otvetnyy udar (1975)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #11: At Any Price / Lyuboy tsenoy (1977)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #12: 'Bouquet' Is Standing By / 'Buket' na priyome (1977)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #13: Until The Third Shot / Do tretyego vystrela (1978)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #14: Herdsboy With A Cucumber / Podpasok s ogurtsom (1979)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #15: Went And Never Returned / Ushel i ne vernulsya (1980)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #16: From The Life Of A Fruits / Iz zhizni fruktov (1981)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #17: He's Somewhere Here / On gde-to zdes' (1982)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #18: Midday Thief / Poludennyy vor (1985)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #19: The Fire / Pozhar (1985)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #20: Boomerang / Bumerang (1987)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #21: Without The Knife And A Knuckleduster / Bez nozha i kasteta (1988)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #22: Mafia / Mafiya (1989)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #23: Arbitrator / Treteyskiy sudiya (2002)
• Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Cause #24: Pood Of Gold / Pud zolota (2003)

External links

• Episode 01, Episode 02, Episode 03, Episode 04, Episode 05, Episode 06, Episode 07, Episode 08,
• Episode 09, Episode 10, Episode 11, Episode 12, Episode 13, Episode 14,
• Episode 15, Episode 16, Episode 17, Episode 18, Episode 19, Episode 20, Episode 21, Episode 22, Episode 23 at IMDB