Vitali Doronin as Pavel Nedolya

Vasili Merkuryev as Gorovoi

Vladimir Druzhnikov as Trofimenko

Lidiya Smirnova as Vera

Aleksei Gribov as Voroshilov

Viktor Khokhryakov as

Mikhail Gelovani as Stalin

Sergei Lukyanov as

Anastasiya Zuyeva as Yevdokiya Prokhorovna

Klara Luchko as Lida Nedolya

Andrei Petrov as Vasiliy Orlov

Pyotr Aleynikov as Andrey Postoyko

Aleksei Alekseyev as plant manager

Viktor Khokhryakov as Minister of Coal Industry

Sergei Lukyanov as Aleksey Fyodorovich Kravtsov

Vasili Merkuryev as Sidor Trofimovich Gorovoy

Boris Chirkov as Stepan Nedolya

Anatoliy Ignatyev as Vladimir Nedolya

Oleg Zhakov as Andreev

Ivan Pelttser as Petrovich

Viktor Avdyushko as

Leonid Alekseev as

Vladimir Uralskiy as Old miner