Simple truths

The series takes place in an ordinary Moscow school No. 1240. According to the plot, the entire series consists of two parts. In the first part, the plot develops around students in grade 11 “B”. Moreover, many stories of this cycle are associated with a couple: Alisa Arzhanova and Andrei Dangulov.

In a year 11, “B” will leave school, and new students will replace graduates. The events of the second part are connected with their adventures for two and a half years (before the new graduation). Filming partially takes place in apartments in a house on Patriarch's Ponds, where schoolchildren live.

The plot includes advertising motives. In the teacher’s room there is an advertisement for www.shoes.ru and the shoe company Grinders. In the first part, the characters go to preparatory courses at the University of Natalya Nesterova (which in the story is located next to school No. 1240). In the second part, the heroes spend leisure time in the bar Dvizh-ok. Their favorite delicacy is nuts in chocolate. Also, sometimes heroes discuss the fact that their school is located in Kondratyevsky Lane.

School Workers

• Boris Nevzorov - school director Boris Ivanovich Komarov (history teacher)
• Elena Molchenko - head teacher Apraksina Nina Andreevna (physics teacher) (1-106, 108, 110, 112-119, 123, 124, 126, 129, 131-132, 134-137, 140-143, 145, 148 series)
• Elena Melnikova - head teacher Ruzina Marina Leonidovna (teacher of mathematics) (107, 109, 111, 120–122, 125, 127, 128, 130,133, 138, 139, 144, 146, 147, from the 149th series)
• Natalya Chernyavskaya - Secretary Rumyantseva Tamara Ivanovna
• Anna Isaykina - literature teacher Motorina (Denisova) Evgenia Nikolaevna , class teacher 11 “B” (in the first season)
• Olga Budina - English teacher Markelova Vera Sergeevna (1-24 episodes)
• Victor Nizovoy - physical education teacher Avdeev Sergey Eduardovich
• Antonina Venediktova - chemistry teacher Smirnova Elena Pavlovna (1–81 series)
• Olga Bityutskaya - primary school teacher Olga Davydovna
• Nina Persiyaninova - elementary school teacher, later geography teacher Anna Luzhina
• Alexey Guskov - psychologist Igor Lvovich (11-56 series)
• Olga Kuzina - English teacher Margarita Valentinovna Vinogradova (since episode 26), class teacher 10 “B” (in the second season), 11 “B” (in the third season)
• Anna Voronova - nurse Zoya Tikhonovna
• Evgeny Knyazev - school psychologist Zimin Pavel Sergeevich (from the 67th series)
• Mikhail Policeitsimako - a teacher of astronomy, then a physics teacher Alexander Pushkin (since 78 series)
• Valery Afanasyev - teacher OBZh Kalitin Pyotr Alekseevich (since 85 series)
• Elvira Bolgova - chemistry teacher Olga Borodina (since the 99th series)
• Olga Pogodina - chemistry teacher Olga Borodina (from the 152 series)
• Irina Tomskaya - chemistry teacher Vishnevskaya Irina Sergeevna (since 213 series)
• Pavel Smetankin - biology teacher Trofimov Andrei Mikhailovich (from the 253th series)
• Marianna Kuznetsova - the cleaning lady "Baba Anya" (in some episodes Anna Fedorovna is called, in others Anna Sergeevna (122, 124, 128, 136-137, 147, 243))

Pupils 11 B (Season 1)

• Julia Troshina - Alisa Arzhanova
• Yuri Makeev - Andrey Dangulov
• Alexander Nesterov - Igor Tsybin
• Inna Aslian - Karina Gevorgyan
• Anna Tsymbalistova - Lisa Samusenko
• Anastasia Kozlova - Polina Starostina
• Alexey Ilyin - Lyosha Burundukov
• Mikhail Belenky - Misha Yakovlev
• Artyom Semakin - Artyom Zyulyaev

Pupils of other classes

• Anastasia Stachinskaya - Nastya Rumyantseva, daughter of Tamara Ivanovna
• Marina Kuchkova - Marina Korolkova from 11 “A”, model
• Nikita Kudryavtsev - hooligan boy Nikita from 6 "A"
• Danila Kozlovsky - a complete bully boy Denis Seliverstov from 6 "A"
• Anton Kolesnikov - Maxim from 6 "A"
• Pyotr Chernyavsky - Egor , studying with Anna Markovna
• Julia Melentieva - Anya , classmate of Nastya
• Dmitry Chuprin - Dima
• Maria Gorban - girl in a yellow blouse (39)

High school students of the second part (10 and 11 “B”)

• Tatyana Arntgolts - Katya Trofimova
• Anatoly Rudenko - Dima Karpov (57–91 series)
• Vadim Utenkov - Maxim Egorov "Grinders"
• Dmitry Ermilov - Alexey Kalitin (from the 85th series)
• Anastasia Panchenko - Lera Pronina (since 58 series)
• Marina Cherepukhina - Lida Ivanova (57-200 series)
• Daniil Bolshov - Dima Knyazev (94–182 series)
• Vita Grebneva - Lyusya Mazurenko
• Alexandra Tsymbalistova - Natasha Tsaryova (Kharkov)
• Ivan Pohmelkin - Danila Weinstein
• Anastasia Zadorozhnaya - Angelika Seliverstova
• Nina Filimoshkina (Loshchinina) - Ksenia Lisitsyna
• Dmitry Vinogradov - Ruslan Alisherov (from series 45)
• Anton Khrapov - Anatoly Petrovich Volkov (from series 141)
• Nikita Ostrovsky - Matvey Sosnovsky (57–148 series)
• Evgeny Kosyrev - Pavel Belkin (early) (57-104 series)
• Vyacheslav Manucharov - Pavel Belkin (late) (105–252 series)
• Mikhail Khabin - Arseny Artsybashev (from the 188 series)
• Kirill Kanakhin - Fedya Baklanov (from the 254th series)
• Alexander Ilyin Jr. - Zhenya Smirnov , son of Elena Pavlovna (25, 75, 81)

Part 2 Pupils

• Olga Arntgolts - Masha , sister of Katya Trofimova

• The series went on air from September 6, 1999 to August 8, 2003 (intermittently) on the channel " Russia " (until the 239th series). Series 240 through 350 were shown only on the RTR-Planeta channel (from October 1, 2003 to May 21, 2004) ^[1] .
• The series was shot in Moscow school number 1240.
• 350 episodes were filmed.
• The series was shown on TV channels: Russia , Bibigon , Carousel (Russia), New Channel , K2 , TET , Inter + (Ukraine), TV5 (Latvia), LAD (Belarus).
• Since episodes 1–56 were shot in 1999–2000, there is a grain effect and loss of color gamut on them.

The series “Simple Truths” is a laureate of the XI International Festival of TV programs for adolescents, the children's film festival in Artek and the V All-Russian Festival of Visual Arts in Orlyonok. ^[2]

Directors

• Yuri Belenky
• Vadim Shmelev

Producers

• Mark Levin
• Yuri Belenky

Scriptwriters

Operators

• Victor Pishchalnikov
• Yuri Ulanov

• "Simple Truths": How the Fate of the Actors Developed - Around TV.