They Were the First
1956, Russian. Directed by Yuri Yegorov.
1918. Anxious in Petrograd. Increasingly compressed around the revolutionary city of the enemy ring. Go to the front working shelves. The struggle against the enemies of Soviet power is not only on the outskirts of the city, but also in the rear. In this harsh and difficult time for the revolution by the will of the Bolshevik party on the outskirts of the workers created Komsomol organizations. The first to join the young Communist League, young workers — Stepan Barabash, Alexander Chizhik, Glasha, Kuzma. After some hesitation and deliberation, members of the Komsomol be a peasant boy, Theodore, who came from a remote village to work in Peter and the schoolboy Zhenya Gorovskoe. In the days of intense fighting young patriots together with the troops of the working guard sent to defend Petrograd
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Yuri YegorovDirector
- Mikhail KondratyevV. I. Lenin
- Georgiy YumatovStepan Barabash
- Liliya AleshnikovaGlasha
- Mark BernesRodionov
- Mikhail UlyanovKolyvanov
- Aleksandr TolstykhFyodor
- Viktor TerekhovKuzma
- Mikhail DerzhavinGorovskiy
- Nina KrachkovskayaLena
- Viktor BrezhnevStreltsov
- Sergei GolovanovZabolotskiy
- Viktor StepanovSanya Chizhik
Details
- Released
- 15 May 1956
- Original title
- Они были первыми
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Yuri Yegorov, Yuzef Printsev
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They Were the First runs 95 minutes (1h 35m).
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They Were the First isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 15 May 1956. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed They Were the First?
They Were the First (1956) was directed by Yuri Yegorov and stars Mikhail Kondratyev, Georgiy Yumatov, Liliya Aleshnikova.