In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.
| Directing | Mikhail Yershov | Director |
| Writing | Aleksandr Chakovskiy | Screenplay |
| Production | Mikhail Yershov | Production Director |
| Directing | Yu. Makarov | Co-Director |
| Directing | L. Petrova | Co-Director |
| Writing | Aleksandr Chakovskiy | Novel |
| Writing | Arnold Vitol | Screenplay |
| Editing | Ye. Shkultina | Editorial Manager |
| Art | Mikhail Ivanov | Production Design |
| Art | Mikhail Ivanov | Art Direction |
| Art | N. Drachuk-Popova | Set Painter |
| Art | Ye. Fomina | Set Painter |
| Art | E. Urlina | Set Painter |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatyana Ostrogorskaya | Costume Design |
| Sound | Irina Volkova | Sound Recordist |
| Crew | Igor Andronnikov | Stunts |
| Crew | Vladimir Bagirov | Stunts |
| Crew | Anatoliy Khodyushin | Stunts |
| Crew | Vladimir Kodintsev | Stunts |
| Crew | Vyacheslav Malofeevskiy | Stunts |
| Crew | Aleksandr Massarskiy | Stunts |
| Crew | Vladimir Momot | Stunts |
| Crew | Aleksei Oreshkin | Stunts |
| Crew | Anatoliy Rakhlin | Stunts |
| Crew | Arkadiy Rotenberg | Stunts |
| Crew | Vladimir Shavarin | Stunts |
| Crew | Vasiliy Shestakov | Stunts |
| Crew | Dmitriy Shulkin | Stunts |
| Crew | Ivan Smirnov | Stunts |
| Crew | Sergey Suslin | Stunts |
| Crew | Leonid Usvyatsov | Stunts |
| Crew | Nikolay Vashchilin | Stunts |
| Crew | Boris Vasilyuk | Stunts |
| Crew | Yuriy Veryovkin | Stunts |
| Camera | A. Dudko | Camera Operator |
| Camera | K. Solovyov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | S. Katsev | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | V. Kiryukhin | Assistant Camera |
| Sound | Pavel Kravetskiy | Songs |
| Sound | Yuri Temirkanov | Conductor |
| Crew | I. Fedyuninskiy | Military Consultant |
| Crew | A. Gribkov | Military Consultant |
| Crew | G. Pukhov | Military Consultant |
| Crew | V. Timokhin | Military Consultant |
| Crew | S. Tulyakov | Military Consultant |
| Production | O. Kharitonov | Consulting Accountant |
| Production | P. Petrov | Consulting Accountant |
| Editing | G. Remmer | Consulting Editor |
| Camera | Anatoli Nazarov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Mikhail Matusovsky | Lyricist |
| Sound | Venyamin Basner | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Smirnova | Makeup Artist |
