''Glorious Path'' (russian: Путь славы) is a 1949

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

film directed by

Boris Buneev Boris Buneev (1921-2015) was a Soviet film director. He was awarded the title of Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 1973, and won the USSR State Prize in 1974 for the film "The Last Meeting". Biography Boris Buneev graduated from the d ...

, Anatoli Rybakov and

Mikhail Shvejtser Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (russian: Михаил (Моисей) Абрамович Швейцер, 16 February 1920, Perm – 2 June 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR ( ...

Plot

The film tells about a village girl Sasha Voronkova, moving to the city in the hope of realizing her dream: to become a train driver.

Starring

* Aleksandr Antonov as Ivan Konstantinovich * Aleksey Bakhar *

Sergey Bondarchuk Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук, ; uk, Сергі́й Федорович Бондарчук, Serhíj Fédorovych Bondarchúk; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian ...

as Sekretar gorkoma * Inna Fyodorova *

Georgi Gumilevsky Georgi may refer to: * Georgi (given name) * Georgi (surname) See also *Georgy (disambiguation) *Georgii (disambiguation) Georgii may refer to: ;Given name * Georgii Zantaraia (born 1987), Ukrainian judoka of Georgian origin * Georgii Karpechenko ...

as Ded i hochnoy storozh *

Olesya Ivanova Olesya may refer to: * Olesya (given name) Olesya (Ukrainian and Russian: Олеся), may also be spelt Olessia or Olesia, is a feminine given name. Olesya is a Slavonic name that derives from a word "lyess" (Ukrainian "ліс", Russian "лес ...

as Sasha Voronkova *

Viktor Khokhryakov Viktor Ivanovich Khokhryakov (russian: Виктор Иванович Хохряков; 1913–1986) was a Soviet Russian film actor, theater actor and director. He played the composer Alexander Glazunov in the 1954 film ''Rimsky-Korsakov''.Mitche ...

as Ponomaryov * G. Koryagin *

Muza Krepkogorskaya Musa Viktorovna Krepkogorskaya (russian: Муза Викторовна Крепкогорская; July 9, 1924, Moscow — June 26, 1999, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989). Wife of act ...

as Katya * Leonid Kulakov as Samson Ivanovich *

Vasili Makarov Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy ( Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to '' Basil''. It may refer to: * Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 *Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince ...

as Kapitan *

Nadir Malishevsky The nadir (, ; ar, نظير, naẓīr, counterpart) is the direction pointing directly ''below'' a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface. The direct ...

as Kolya Makagon *

Grigory Mikhaylov Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy are Russian masculine given names. It may refer to watcher angels or more specifically to the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels. Grigory * Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist * Grigory Barenblatt (1927201 ...

* Pyotr Savin as Normirovshchik * Nina Savva * Aleksandr Shirshov as Aleksey *

Zoya Tolbuzina Zoya (russian: Зоя, links=no) is a feminine Russian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe, meaning "life", from Greek ζωή (zoē), "life".