<p>A plumber climbs nine floors on a routine drainage call. The door doesn't open. He smells something he can't unsmell, goes downstairs, and calls the police. By the end of that October afternoon in 1996, the door to apartment 357 has been forced - and what's behind it will take the rest of the season to account for. </p>

A plumber climbs nine floors on a routine drainage call. The door doesn't open. He smells something he can't unsmell, goes downstairs, and calls the police. By the end of that October afternoon in 1996, the door to apartment 357 has been forced - and what's behind it will take the rest of the season to account for.

<p>A plumber climbs nine floors on a routine drainage call. The door doesn't open. He smells something he can't unsmell, goes downstairs, and calls the police. By the end of that October afternoon in 1996, the door to apartment 357 has been forced - and what's behind it will take the rest of the season to account for.&nbsp;</p>

Episode 1: The Knock

Russia Unheard tells true crime stories from inside Russia, deeply documented cases, with court records, survivors, and decades of legal history, that almost no one outside the country has ever heard. Told with restraint, from the actual sources, by a narrator who grew up there.
Season one: Apartment 357. October 1996, the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door. By that evening, the police have broken in. Six episodes. New episodes weekly.
Contains accounts of violent crime. Listener discretion advised.

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Russia Unheard tells true crime stories from inside Russia, deeply documented cases, with court records, survivors, and decades of legal history, that almost no one outside the country has ever heard. Told with restraint, from the actual sources, by a narrator who grew up there. Season one: Apartment 357. October 1996, the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door. By that evening, the police have broken in. Six episodes. New episodes weekly. Contains accounts of violent crime. Listener discretion advised.

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