Igor Efimov

Character: Garbuz, Commissioner

Yuriy Solovyov

Character: Karavaev, regiment commander, major

Georgy Nazarenko

Character: Kazakov, chief of reconnaissance regiment

Oleksandr Ihnatusha

Character: Bogdan Shovkoplyas, scout

Sergey Makovetskiy

Character: Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa

Fyodor Sukhov

Character: Vasily Romashkin

Aleksandr Potapov

Character: Grisha Kurzhakov, lieutenant, company commander

Leonid Nevedomsky

Character: Dobrokhotov, General

Anatolii Yurchenko

Character: Goloshchapov, scout

Viktor Pavlov

Character: Zhmachenko, foreman

Valery Zaitsev

Character: Zhuk, scout

Leonid Muratov

Character: Nail Khamidullin, scout

Nikita Lysenko

Character: Kostya Korolevich, scout

Victor Bychkov

Character: Luzgin, scout

Alexander Zhdanov

Character: Kuzya Pryakhin, soldier

Yelena Kozelkova

Character: Nadezhda Semyonovna, mother of Vasily Romashkin

Elizaveta Surzhikova

Character: Shura, musician from Leningrad

Aleksandr Lenkov

Character: captain Kim Ptitsyn, correspondent

Irina Zelenko

Character: Zina, classmate

Yevgeni Solyakov

Character: Pyotr Nagorny, soldier from Telegin's company

Andrey Gusev

Character: classmate, fellow soldier of Romashkin

Rostislav Yankovsky

Character: doctor

Galina Makarova

Character: hospital nurse

Arnis Līcītis

Character: colonel

Evgeniy Nikitin

Character: Fedor, captain

Vladimir Gritsevskiy

Character: Guliev, fellow soldier of Romashkin

Aleksandr Arzhilovskiy

Character: Moreyko, captain, fellow soldier of Romashkin

Tamara Muzhenko

Character: compatriot Romashkina

Rudolf Mukhin

Character: a private from the Telegin company

Boris Yukhananov

Character:

Aleksandr Bespalyy

Character: Vanya Rogatin, scout