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Will there be a continuation of the series Youth?

In 2013, the series Molodezhka, telling about the hockey team Bears from the provincial city, was published on Russian television screens. Young outsiders can not get into the league leaders and worry more for their personal lives than they build their careers. But everything changes when the new coach Sergei Makeev comes, a former NHL player who left sports due to injury. Experience and patience help Makeev to make a real cohesion team from their wards.

The first season of “Youth” was initially not very warmly met by the public, but the ratings grew, and the project was on the list of the most popular series of not only STS channel, but also television as a whole. It was appreciated by ordinary spectators and professional hockey players. According to the latter, the peculiarity of the series is that it shows that part of the life of athletes that fans usually do not see.

In less than a year after a loud start, as released 40 episodes of the second season. Director Sergei Arlanov was replaced by Andrei Golovkov (both worked on the creation of Ranettes and Soldiers). With a small break, they shot and presented another 4 seasons. “Bears” continuously “played” on television from 2013 to 2019. The final series of the sixth season was released in February 2019.

Project participants grew with him, the heroes grew up, climbed the career ladder, acquired families. The series helped to reveal new talents. The popularity was gained by young actors Alexander Sokolovsky, Vlad Kanopka, Ivan Zhvakin, Ilya Korobko, Igor Ogurtsov, Ivan Mulin and others. The cast of the series includes such stars of Russian cinema as Denis Nikiforov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Mikhail Zhigalov, Nikolai Dobrynin, Sergey Gabrielyan, Andrey Merzlikin.

By the fifth season, new faces appeared: Sergey Gorobchenko, Natalia Rudova, Ekaterina Klimova, Stanislav Pokhovsky, Artem Gubin, Sergey Shakurov and others. Some characters left the project, some, on the contrary, were returned. According to the storyline, sport began to farther into the background and further. Hockey matches were replaced by household and downs, illuminating all spheres of life: friendship, love, and business. In a word, everything that was possible sucked out of history by giving fans an epic of six years long.

The sixth season was divided into two parts. The first came out under the name Youth. Ice and flame ”, the second -“ Youth. More than hockey. Before launching the final series, the creators clarified: this is the end of the story, and the continuation should not wait. The most popular sports drama on Russian television has officially ended.

But it is too early for fans to say goodbye to their favorite series.Both directors of the project (Golovkov and Arlanov) voiced their desire to remove the continuation – with a different name, but partially preserved by the cast. In the past year, Arlanov tried to popularize another sport, swimming. In April, the series “Moms of the Champions” with Ekaterina Vilkova, the director of which he acts, was released. Perhaps the “youth” is awaiting rebranding as soon as the filmmakers have time and desire.

In addition, in 2017, the STS Media company announced that the youth will receive a full -length continuation, like some popular sitcoms, for example, Kitchen. The film was scheduled for rental in online cinemas with a blurry date of the premiere of 2019-2020. So far, the details about the shooting and the release are not reported, but fans are waiting and hoping. There are all prerequisites for creating a new project with old heroes.