Leonid Bykov character captain (later major) Alexey Titarenko (aka “Maestro”)
Aleksei Smirnov character mechanic Makarych
Sergei Ivanov character lieutenant (later senior lieutenant) Alexandrov (aka "Grasshopper")
Sergei Podgornyj character junior lieutenant Viktor Shchedronov (aka “Smuglyanka”)
Rustam Sagdullayev character junior (later senior) lieutenant Sagdullaev (aka “Romeo”)
Yevgeniya Simonova character Masha Popova
Vladimir Talashko character Senior Lieutenant Sergey Skvortsov
Olga Mateshko character captain Zoya Molchanova
Viktor Miroshnichenko character Major Ivan Ermakov, regiment commander
Aleksandr Milyutin character 1st squadron pilot
Dmitri Mirgorodsky character infantry battalion
Alim Fedorinsky character Alyabyev
Vano Yantbelidze character lieutenant (later captain) Vano Kobakhidze
Alexander Nemchenko character Ivan Fedorovich
Viloriy Pashchenko character Vorobyov
Yuriy Sarantsev character Vasily Vasilievich, air division commander
Valentin Makarov character regiment chief of staff
Leonid Marchenko character Petya Savchuk, pilot of the 1st Squadron
Boris Boldyrevsky character mechanic Sagdullaev
Ivan Reutov character mechanic Sergey Skvortsov
Grigory Gladiy character technician Alexandrova
Valentin Grudinin character colonel
Vladimir Volkov character party organization secretary
Vladimir Brodsky character Kolosov
Anatoly Yurchenko character Solomatin
