The Volunteers

Based on the novel of the same name in the verses of Yevgeni Dolmatovsky. Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kaitanov, Slava Ufimtsev, Alyosha Akishin, Lyolya and Masha came to the construction of the first stage of the Moscow metro. They are united by the romance of the feat, the desire to always be on the most difficult and dangerous site. A romantic and heroic story about the Komsomol members of the 1930s, about the fate of the generation that endured the construction of the first stage of the Moscow Metro, the war, the post-war reconstruction of the country.

Drama War

Mikhail Ulyanov

(Kaitanov)

Pyotr Shcherbakov

(Ufimtsev)

Leonid Bykov

(Akishin)

Elina Bystritskaya

(Lyolya)

Lyudmila Krylova

(Masha)

Mikaela Drozdovskaya

(Tanya)

Sergei Plotnikov

(uncle Seryozha)

Viktor Chekmaryov

(Oglotkov)

Nikifor Kolofidin

(general)

Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky

(doctor)

Mariya Vinogradova

(Valya Kukhnarenko)

Pavel Vinnik

(mine's komsomol organizer)

Ivan Mochalov

(Maks)

Yuriy Kireev

(лётчик)

Nonna Mordyukova

(subway builder woman (uncredited))

Lyudmila Ivanova

(komsomol girl at the meeting (uncredited))

Valentin Bryleev

(subway builder man (uncredited))

Nikolay Pogodin

(subway builder man (uncredited))

Leonid Pirogov

(constructor (uncredited))

Lyudmila Marchenko

(Kaitanov Jr.'s girlfriend (uncredited))

Yelena Maksimova

(owner of the hut (uncredited))

Svetlana Kharitonova

(military traffic controller (uncredited))

Alevtina Rumyantseva

(female worker (uncredited))