The "smart guy", is a former policeman. Since his youth he always "wanted to be a man in uniform running over the fields with a submachine gun." He first enrolled in a military collage but had give up the studies due to health problems. He became a police inspector. He solved on average 13 cases per month (two times more than the fixed norm) and travelled to distant places all over the country, including above the Arctic Circle. After the collapse of the Soviet empire, he returned to Ukraine to work as a police inspector in rural areas. Now retired, he still dreams of great criminal cases and investigations.

The "strong guy", has recently started keeping pigs and is entirely focused on running his household. Two years ago his wife gave birth to their daughter Sonya, and the strongest man in the villdage, "the terror of hooligans", turned into a gentle loving father. He used to work as a security man at a bar and a disco club. But a year ago Volodya returned to his sheriff duties which he regards as the highest point in his professional life.

The third-term chairman of Stara Zburjivka village council. He is the man who initiated and embodied the idea of village sheriffs. Marunyak is a historian by education, an intellectual and a patriot. During the Orange Revolution, he was a member of the security squad protecting Yulia Tymoshenko, spending the first day of the Revolution to the last on the Independence Square in Kyiv. Today he is determined to put things in order, at least in his own village, irrespective of what happens in the country at large.

Kolya is the village dispomaniac, a town drunk, a helpless, chaotic chap, who seems to have wandered in from a prior century, or even Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist Nikolai Gogol short story of Ukrainian ethnicity. Kolya has the tendency of eating other people's dogs and is, because of that, widely unpopular among other villagers. Yet he wants to "become better" and longs for acceptance. Although the sheriffs show a specific sympathy with Kolya, he ends up in prison.