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.
Lyubov Orlova
Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova
Evgeniy Samoylov
Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
Yelena Tyapkina
Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina
Vladimir Volodin
Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin
Anastasiya Zuyeva
Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver
Vera Altayskaya
Klava
Nikolai Konovalov
Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman
Pavel Olenev
Kurnakov, chief foreman
