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.

Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova

Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev

Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina

Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin

Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver

Klava

Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman

Kurnakov, chief foreman

Dorokhov, factory director

Blond Secretary
October 7, 1940

Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova

Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev

Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina

Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin

Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver

Klava

Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman

Kurnakov, chief foreman

Dorokhov, factory director

Blond Secretary

