Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova
Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina
Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin
Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver
Klava
Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman
Kurnakov, chief foreman
Dorokhov, factory director
Blond Secretary
Varya
Samokhin
Photographer (uncredited)
Military man (uncredited)
Factory Deputy Director (uncredited)
Appearing (uncredited)
Marusya
Khadija