Paulina Andreeva said it was rather hard to play a robot; the hardest part of it was forcing herself to not blink for a long time during the filming. Moving like a robot and saying robotic phrases seemed bizarre to her but she liked the challenge.
The book being read by Fyodor Lavrov's character at the beginning of S01 E06 is 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' by Philip K Dick, which is the novel that Blade Runner (1982) is based on.
At the end of season 1 there exist some outtakes in the credits roll.
The title in Russian translates literally to "Better than People."