Petrovka, 38 (Russian: Петровка, 38) is a 1980 Soviet crime film directed by Boris Grigoryev.^[1][2][3]

The film tells about the employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation who are investigating the robberies committed by a group of criminals with dark glasses.^[4]

In May 1979, Moscow Criminal Investigation Department officers—Colonel Alexei Pavlovich Sadchikov, Major Vladislav Nikolaevich Kostenko, and Senior Lieutenant Valentin Roslyakov—investigate a series of daring robberies carried out by a gang of criminals wearing dark sunglasses.

With the help of a teenager, Lyonka, who accidentally became acquainted with the gang and was drawn into a failed robbery attempt on a savings bank, the police manage to arrest two gang members known as "Chita" and "Sudar." Forensic experts identify the fingerprints on a pistol as belonging to one of the robbers, and the detained suspects let slip information about "Prokhor," the gang leader.

The investigation leads the detectives to a quiet village near Moscow, where they discover that an unassuming old man is, in fact, Prokhor, the gang’s leader. In a shootout, Prokhor critically wounds Roslyakov, but doctors manage to save him. Major Kostenko then apprehends the fleeing Prokhor and presents him with the irrefutable evidence collected in the investigation.

• Georgi Yumatov as Aleksey Pavlovich Sadchikov
• Vasily Lanovoy as Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Kostenko
• Yevgeni Gerasimov as Valya Poslyakov
• Lyudmila Nilskaya as Alyena
• Mikhail Zhigalov
• Aleksandr Nikiforov as Chita
• Nikolai Eryomenko
• Grigoriy Lyampe
• Aleksandr Egorov as Lyonka Samsonov (as Sasha Yegorov)
• Yuri Volkov as Aleksey Alekseyevich Samsonov^[5]

• Petrovka, 38 at IMDb