Nasha Russia

Nasha Russia
Created by	Semen Slepakov, Garik Martirosyan and Maxim Pezhemsky
Starring	Mikhail Galustyan Sergey Svetlakov Valery Magdiash Mikhail Dodzin Garik Martirosyan
Country of origin	Template:Russia
No. of episodes	73
Production
Running time	30 mins
Original release
Network	TNT
Release	2006

Nasha Russia (Russian: Наша Russia) is a Russian sketch show created by Comedy Club Production. It was written by Russian rap-singer Pavel Volya and producer Garik Martirosyan. This show has got a license from the famous English sketch show Little Britain. There are four seasons of this show.

Content

We live in the best country in the world, and the other countries are jealous of us. Because WE are the first who flew to outer space and we are the first who returned from space to the Earth. WE made the hydrogen bomb, the car "Zhiguli" and many other horrible things. WE have saved the virgin lands of Kazakhstan and thrown out Georgian water "Borjomi". Because only WE turned back rivers and energy counters. We proudly call our country Rossiya, while envious foreigners call it "Russia"! But still, it is our Russia. It is NASHA RUSSIA!

Original text (Russian)

Мы живем в самой прекрасной стране на свете, а все остальные страны нам завидуют. Именно мы первыми полетели в космос и первыми прилетели из него. Мы придумали водородную бомбу, автомобиль «Жигули» и много других страшных вещей. Это мы подняли казахстанскую целину и опустили грузинскую минералку. Ведь именно мы повернули вспять реки и счетчики электроэнергии. Мы гордо называем свою страну Россия, а иностранцы завистливо говорят РАША! Но все-таки она наша. НАША РАША!

Personalities

Ravshan and Jumshut

Ravshan and Jumshut (Равшан и Джамшут), the most popular characters of the sketch show, are gastarbeiters from Tajikistan. They work for their boss in Moscow and call him "nasyalnika" (Russian: насяльника, changed form of word "начальник" - boss). Ravshan does all the talking and Jumshut does not speak at all, presumably because he does not understand Russian. The workers's job is to make repairs in apartments, but something goes wrong every time. For example, they can't fix the door, the window or the balcony. Every time they do something wrong, "nasyalnika" calls them idiots. When the boss asks Ravshan a question, he stupidly repeats it at least twice before answering.

Ivan Dulin and his boss Mikhalych

Ivan Dulin (Иван Дулин) is the first homosexual miller in the world. He works at the Chelyabinsk steel factory number 69 (firs the authors wanted to depict factory number 68, which actually exists, but the factory's manager refused to have it on the show; he said that there are no gays at his factory). Ivan Dulin is in love with his boss Mikhalych (Михалыч is a middle name. His first and last names vary from season to season), who is heterosexual and refuses to sleep with Dulin. The gay miller constantly comes up with clever plots to seduce Mikhalych, but fails. At the end of most sketches, some homophobic factory workers walk in on Dulin and Mikhalych's quarrels and assume they are having sexual intercourse.

Sergey Belyakov

Sergey Yurievich Belyakov (Сергей Юрьевич Беляков) lives in Taganrog and likes to argue with his TV every evening. He is very critical of the programs he sees and always makes fun of celebrities and news reports. On nights when wife is not home, Belyakov sometimes wathces pornography, which he also makes fun of. In the third season, he wathces TV with his son and explains every TV program.

F.C. Gazmyas

Football club (soccer team) "Gazmyas" (Russian: Газмяс, or "Gasmeat") from Omsk plays in the Fourth Division and keeps losing every single game with a high score like 20 to 0. Their coach Evgeny Mikhailovich Tishinsky (Евгений Михайлович Тишинский) is a sadist. He enjoys beating the players up after every game. Normally he nearly kills goalkeeper Gatalsky (Гатальский) or forward Prokopenko (Прокопенко). Sometimes he argues with the arbiter. "Gazmyas" was a parody on Russian football, but sfter the Russia national football team's EURO-2008 success, the "Gazmyas" part of the show was removed and jokes about Russian football became less common. In the third season, Omskiy Gazmyas becomes "Omskaya Gazmyasochka" when Tishinsky dresses his players up like women in the hopes of playing against women and thus winning. However, this plan does not work either and the team still loses all of their games.

Ludwig Aristarhovich

The janitor Ludwig Aristarhovich (Людвиг Аристархович) lives in Saint Petersburg. Unlike all other St-Petersburgians, who are considered very polite and civilized, Ludwig Aristarhovich enjoys playing nasty tricks on the tenants. These tricks include leaving excrements at people's doorsteps and writing inappropriate graffiti on the walls. He also hates one of the tenants, professor Zvyagincev (Звягинцев).

Teenagers Slavik and Dimon

Teenagers Slavik (Славик) and Dimon (Димон) make several unsuccessful attempts at hooking up with hot girls. Slavik is the active one, he is always coming up with not-so-clever plans to lure the girls in. Dimon is usually too scared to act these plans out properly and humiliates the pair of them. In the first season the boys are too shy to buy condoms. In the second and third seasons they try clubbing, and in the fourth season they try their luck at the girls vacationing in Anapa.

Deputies Mamonov and Pronin

Deputies Yuri Venediktovich Pronin (Юрий Венедиктович Пронин) and Victor Kharitonovich Mamonov (Виктор Харитонович Мамонов) live in fake city Nephteskvazhinsk (Нефтескважинск, or Oilgettingcity). Everybody says that he is worried about Russia. In reality they want just to live as rich people and to have a sex with their waitresses and maids.

Honest militiaman

Militiaman Nickolay Laptev (Николай Лаптев) from Vologda is an honest man and never takes brisberies. Because of that his family is very poor. His wife and son can't make him get at least one brisbery.

Autoroad Penza-Kopeisk

Inspector of National Auto Inspection Gavrilov (Гаврилов) and prostitute Elvira (Эльвира) try to get money by their own ways and they disturb each other. They work on the M5 highway wich is called by fanny name "Penza-Kopeisk" (Пенза-Копейск)

Waitress Anastasia Kuznecova

Waitress Anastassia Kuznecova (Анастасия Кузнецова) works in Ivanovo as a waitress. She tries to find a man fo her and she throws out other women because they can steal her "willing husband".

Snezhana Denisovna

Teacher Snezhana Denisovna (Снежана Денисовна) works in a school of Voronezh. She always steals money form pupils for her private aims.

Siphon and Boroda

Homelessnesses Siphon (Сифон) and Boroda (Борода, Barbe) live in Rublevka highway and always try to find something interesting in the cups of waste.

Zhorik Vartanov and Rudik

Zhorik Vartanov (Жорик Вартанов) works in TV station Sev-Kav TV (Сев-Кав TV). Every evening he tells about events in the world and his stories are very emotional so director of photography Rudik (Рудик) tries to stop Zhorik and sometimes fights with him.