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The Taiga Troopers

First aired on May 16, 1966

Runtime: 88 mins

40%

Genres: Drama

Based on the novel by Vladimir Orlov "Salty Watermelon". About the youth team of builders laying in the taiga railway Abakan-Tayshet. In the taiga, on the site of the future route, the youth team of Nikolai Bondarenko works. The people in the brigade are very different: the educated muscovite Vitaly, the resourceful Boris, the scribe and the romantic "Bukvar", but everyone lives together. They dream of a future route that will open the way to the Sayan Mountains.

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Stanislav Borodokin | "Bukvar"
Vladimir Gusev | Nikolai
Viktor Zadubrovsky | Keshka
Irina Vavilova | Olga
Konstantin Khudyakov | Vitaliy
Antonina Zhmakova | Zoyka
Featured Crew
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Pyotr Yemelyanov | Director of Photography
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Nikolai Kropotov | Sound
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Irina Lukashevich | Costume Design
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Leonid Afanasyev | Original Music Composer
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Vladimir Orlov | Novel
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Valeriy Uskov | Director