
The student rowing team of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) was defeated in the competition. The coach drops the team and leaves, taking the best rowers with him. The remaining athletes decide to assemble a new team, and the management of the institute appoints a new coach for them — a teacher of hydrodynamics.
Alyona

Vasiliy

Aleksei Ivanovich

Gervasiy Fedoseyevich

Nikolai Lvovich

Seva

Taras

Pasha
Anton
Vikentiy

Marko

Kirill

Yukhan

Garik
Soluyanov

trainer

Ivan
Violetta

Shatrov

Marina
Petya
Alyona's relative

Alyona's grandmother

Alyona's grandfather

member of the academic Council

member of the academic Council

commentator
Lyonya

head of the American delegation

wife of the Soviet ambassador
longshoreman

Self (uncredited)

Self (uncredited)

rewarding person (uncredited)

pilot (uncredited)

member of the American delegation (uncredited)

Aleksei Ivanovich's companion (uncredited)

member of the academic Council (uncredited)

member of the academic Council (uncredited)

member of the academic Council (uncredited)

student-rower (uncredited)

speaker at the academic Council in MAI

member of the academic council

princessa Christina

Unknown Role
Unknown Role