Vasiliy Shukshin

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Mykhailo Gorlov

Valeriy Korol

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Yurka

Vera Predayevich

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Yurka's mother

Volodymyr Dalskyi

~ as ~

clothing salesman

Dzhemma Osmolovskaya

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parturient woman

Boris Saburov

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collective farm chairman

Valentin Grudinin

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Gorlov's drinking companion

Mariya Kapnist

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elderly passenger with a goose

Yuriy Kireev

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парень в пивной

Anatoliy Trofimenko

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boy in the helmet