Blockade: The Luga Defense Line

In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.

Yuriy Solomin

(Aleksei Zvyagintsev)

Yevgeni Lebedev

(Ivan Korolyov)

Irina Akulova

(Vera Korolyova)

Lev Zolotukhin

(Colonel Pavel Korolyov)

Vladislav Strzhelchik

(Fyodor Valitskiy)

Aleksandr Razin

(Anatoliy Valitskiy)

Boris Gorbatov

(Joseph Stalin)

Sergei Kharchenko

(Zhdanov)

Daniil Sagal

(Marshal Voroshilov)

Vasiliy Minin

(Marshal Timoshenko)

Valentin Abramov

(Shaposhnikov, chief of staff)

Anatoli Verbitsky

(Nikolay Kuznetsov)

Mikhail Ulyanov

(Georgiy Zhukov)

Roman Gromadskiy

(Aleksey Kuznetsov)

Konstantin Malakhov

(General Popov)

Stanislav Fesyunov

(Major General Fedyuninsky)

V. Voronov

(Voronov, Colonel General of Artillery)

Radij Afanasyev

(Lindeman)

Vladimiras Lido

(Gorodetskiy)

Yuri Kuranin

(Yevstigneyev, chief of the intelligence dep. of the front HQ)

Jonas Lalas

(Boris Bychevskiy, chief of engineering troops)

Yuriy Alekseev

(Pyadyshev)

Oleg Korchikov

(Kozin)

Lev Lemke

(Zaltsman, director of the Kirov factory)

Vasili Korzun

(Kravtsov)

Anatoli Alidin

(Chorokhov)

Nikolai Fyodortsov

(Surovtsev)

Nikolay Trofimov

(Yevgeniy Pastukhov)

Ivan Krasko

(Senior Lieutenant Gorelov)

Nikolay Kuzmin

(Zhogin)

Stanislav Stankevych

(Adolf Hitler)

Juozas Budraitis

(Danvitz)

Serhii Smeian

(Franz Halder)

Boris Sitko

(Gering)

Vladimir Zeldin

(Wilhelm von Leeb)

Valentin Ivanov

(Ribbentrop)

Aleksandr Bershadskiy

(Heinrich Himmler)

Sergei Chernov

(Joseph Goebbels)

Valentina Balabina

(Mariya Valitskaya)

Yuriy Bashkov

(Military commissar)

Igor Bezgin

(Lieutenant General Novikov, Air Force Commander)

Vladimir Gordenin

Sergey Dvoretskiy

(Vasya Razgovorov, driver)

Valeriy Doronin

(German soldier, translator)

Vyacheslav Zholobov

Dmitriy Zebrov

(German soldier on a motorcycle)

Vladimir Kalish

(Toyvo, scout)

Vladimir Karpenko

(Soviet soldier, adjutant)

Anatoly Korolkevich

(Tram driver)

Vasiliy Krasnov

(Infantry Corps Commander)

Nikolay Levitskiy

(Molotov)

Vasili Leonov

(Kadrovik)

Lyubov Malinovskaya

(Masha)

Aleksandr Massarskiy

(German rapist)

Lyudmila Nilova

M. Pavlyuchenko

(Major General)

Pavel Pervushin

(Yegor)

Albert Pechnikov

(Roslyy, Petty officer from the cruiser "Leningrad")

L. Prokopenko

(Worker)

Vladimir Sadovnikov

Vladimir Skoropad

(German officer, tankman)

Yuri Maltsev

(Khozin)

Leontina Dyomina

(Leningrader)

Aleksandr Afanasev

(Kovalyov, communications chief)

Ivanas Jefimovas

(Uchastnik soveschaniya)

Ivanas Petrovas

(Sovet soldier)

G. Belov

(Sovet general)

Maya Blinova

(Duty at the hotel)

Nina Chekmaryova

(Varvara Semyonova)

Aleksey Erin

(Citizen on the street)

Nikolay Gavrilov

(Na voennom sobranii)

V. Lebedev

(German officer)

D. Obraztsov

(Keytel)

Antanas Pikelis

(Uchastnik soveschaniya)

Adolf Shestakov

(German soldier, adjutant)

Boris Smeltsov

(Sovet soldier)

Nikolay Aleksandrovich

(Narrator)

Igor Efimov

(Narrator)