<p>Before the apartment, there was the river. The Aba runs cold through the industrial edge of Novokuznetsk - not a river anyone visits. In the autumn of 1996, it became part of the investigation, not for what it contained, but for what it returned. How a city searched in every direction except the right one. </p>

Before the apartment, there was the river. The Aba runs cold through the industrial edge of Novokuznetsk - not a river anyone visits. In the autumn of 1996, it became part of the investigation, not for what it contained, but for what it returned. How a city searched in every direction except the right one.

<p>Before the apartment, there was the river. The Aba runs cold through the industrial edge of Novokuznetsk - not a river anyone visits. In the autumn of 1996, it became part of the investigation, not for what it contained, but for what it returned. How a city searched in every direction except the right one.&nbsp;</p>

Episode 2: The River

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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