Peasant Nikifor Bubnov goes to the mining regions of Donbas to earn money for a horse. People working nearby become his friends - with them he supports and develops the Stakhanov movement.
Vitali Bazin
Irena Kuksėnaitė
Nikolay Kirichenko
Leonid Yanovskiy
Mykola Hrynko
Bohdan Beniuk
Dmytro Franko
Volodymyr Oleksiyenko