Children of Change

Name: Children of Change
Genre: Drama, Crime
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Viktoriya Isakova, Slava Kopeykin, Makar Khlebnikov, Khetag Khinchagov, Lev Zulkarnaev

Дети перемен (2024 — present)

Seasons: 2, episodes: 16

Average rating: 7.6/10 293 309

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Premiere

2024-11-21

Status

Returning Series

Country

Russia

Network

NTV , START, Wink

Production

Start Studio, NTV, Wink, NMG Studio

Genre

Drama, Crime

Creators

Sergey Taramaev

Actors

Viktoriya Isakova, Slava Kopeykin, Makar Khlebnikov, Khetag Khinchagov, Lev Zulkarnaev, Kuzma Kotrelev, Sergey Gilev, Andrey Maksimov, Artem Koshman, Sofia Lebedeva
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Short description

Half-brothers Yura, Ruslan, and Pyotr form a close family with their mother Flora. In 1995 Russia, greed and violence threaten their bond as they navigate underground clubs, fights, and the collapse of their once-secure world.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1	8	2024-11-21	—
Season 2	8	2026-01-29	—

What's left behind the scenes

In the series, Lev Zulkarnaev recites poems of his own composition.
When creating the character of Pyotr, played by Slava Kopeykin, the authors drew inspiration from the Joker.
The search for an actress to play Flora took a very long time. After seeing Viktoria Isakova in the play "Cosmos" at the Pushkin Theatre, the screenwriters and directors Sergey Taramaev and Lyubov Lvova knew they had found her.
The working title is "Flora's Children."
Kuzma Kotrelev auditioned for another, less prominent role, but that same evening he was urgently called back to audition for the role of investigator Viktor.
Filming locations include Moscow, Zhukovsky, Saint Petersburg, and Vladimir. The second season was filmed in the summer and autumn of 2025 in Moscow, Vladimir, Kostroma, Protvino, and Zhukovsky.
Some roles were written for specific actors. For instance, the authors immediately envisioned Sergey Gilev as the engineer Genrikh Pavlovich, Lev Zulkarnaev as the librarian Rodion, and Makar Khlebnikov as Flora's middle son.