Igor Efimov

Garbuz, Commissioner

Yuriy Solovyov

Karavaev, regiment commander, major

Georgy Nazarenko

Kazakov, chief of reconnaissance regiment

Oleksandr Ihnatusha

Bogdan Shovkoplyas, scout

Sergei Makovetsky

Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa

Fyodor Sukhov

Vasily Romashkin

Aleksandr Potapov

Grisha Kurzhakov, lieutenant, company commander

Leonid Nevedomsky

Dobrokhotov, General

Alexander Bespaly

Vanya Rogatin, scout

Anatolii Yurchenko

Goloshchapov, scout

Viktor Pavlov

Zhmachenko, foreman

Valery Zaitsev

Zhuk, scout

Leonid Muratov

Nail Khamidullin, scout

Nikita Lysenko

Kostya Korolevich, scout

Victor Bychkov

Luzgin, scout

Alexander Zhdanov

Kuzya Pryakhin, soldier

Elena Kozelkova

Nadezhda Semyonovna, mother of Vasily Romashkin

Elizaveta Surzhikova

Shura, musician from Leningrad

Aleksandr Lenkov

captain Kim Ptitsyn, correspondent

Irina Zelenko

Zina, classmate

Yevgeni Solyakov

Pyotr Nagorny, soldier from Telegin's company

Andrey Gusev

classmate, fellow soldier of Romashkin

Rostislav Yankovsky

doctor

Galina Makarova

hospital nurse

Arnis Licitis

colonel

Evgeniy Nikitin

Fedor, captain

Vladimir Gritsevskiy

Guliev, fellow soldier of Romashkin

Aleksandr Arzhilovskiy

Moreyko, captain, fellow soldier of Romashkin

Tamara Muzhenko

compatriot Romashkina

Rudolf Mukhin

a private from the Telegin company

Boris Yukhananov

Directing