Garbuz, Commissioner

Karavaev, regiment commander, major

Kazakov, chief of reconnaissance regiment

Bogdan Shovkoplyas, scout

Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa

Vasily Romashkin

Grisha Kurzhakov, lieutenant, company commander

Dobrokhotov, General

Vanya Rogatin, scout

Goloshchapov, scout

Zhmachenko, foreman

Zhuk, scout

Nail Khamidullin, scout

Kostya Korolevich, scout

Luzgin, scout

Kuzya Pryakhin, soldier

Nadezhda Semyonovna, mother of Vasily Romashkin

Shura, musician from Leningrad

captain Kim Ptitsyn, correspondent

Zina, classmate

Pyotr Nagorny, soldier from Telegin's company

classmate, fellow soldier of Romashkin

doctor

hospital nurse

colonel

Fedor, captain

Guliev, fellow soldier of Romashkin

Moreyko, captain, fellow soldier of Romashkin

compatriot Romashkina

a private from the Telegin company