Echo of Distant Snows

Directed by Leonid Golovnya

With Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Galina Yatskina, Boris Galkin, Alexandr Plotnikov and Vasiliy Shukshin

The movie takes place in the late 1930s in the Far East. A group of pioneering surveyors led by Kirill Kostomarov is to lay the route of a railroad through remote taiga areas. To avoid unnecessary expenditure of human labor, Kostomarov proposes his own variant of laying - along the rocks, not along the floodplain of the river, as approved by the project assignment.