The teenager Misha Polyakov, being with his mother in a Ukrainian village on vacation with his grandmother and about to return home to Petrograd, offers his best friend Genka to go with him. Suddenly, a white gang of Nikitsky bursts into the village and attacks Misha’s house, where Commissioner Polevoy lives. The purpose of Nikitskiy (aka Nikolskiy) is a dagger located at Polevoy. Saving the commissioner, Misha learns from him the history and secret of the weapon, and receives it for storage with a request to solve the secret. Having returned with adventures to Petrograd, Misha Polyakov with friends begins to unravel the riddle of the dagger, in the handle of which is encrypted text.
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| Directing | Mikhail Shveitser | Director |
| Directing | Vladimir Vengerov | Director |
| Writing | Anatoli Rybakov | Novel |
| Camera | Veniamin Levitin | Director of Photography |
| Art | Aleksei Rudyakov | Production Design |
| Art | Aleksei Fedotov | Production Design |
| Sound | Boris Arapov | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Innokenty Gomello | Writer |
| Editing | Yevgeniya Makhankova | Editor |
| Writing | Anatoli Rybakov | Writer |
| Camera | Vladimir Burykin | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Lev Makhtin | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Lev Valter | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | A. Matskevich | Costume Design |
| Directing | Aleksandr Melnikov | First Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Georgiy Shurkin | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Boris Mikhaylov | VFX Supervisor |
| Production | Fridrikh Ermler | Producer |
| Production | Pyotr Nikashin | Executive Producer |