Based on the novel by Vladimir Orlov "Salty Watermelon". About the youth team of builders laying in the taiga railway Abakan-Tayshet. In the taiga, on the site of the future route, the youth team of Nikolai Bondarenko works. The people in the brigade are very different: the educated muscovite Vitaly, the resourceful Boris, the scribe and the romantic "Bukvar", but everyone lives together. They dream of a future route that will open the way to the Sayan Mountains.
| Sound | Nikolai Kropotov | Sound |
| Writing | Vladimir Orlov | Novel |
| Directing | Vladimir Krasnopolskiy | Director |
| Art | Vasily Golikov | Production Design |
| Art | Irina Lukashevich | Production Design |
| Camera | Pyotr Yemelyanov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Vladimir Krasnopolskiy | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Lukashevich | Costume Design |
| Sound | Leonid Afanasyev | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Vladimir Orlov | Writer |
| Directing | Valeriy Uskov | Director |
| Writing | Valeriy Uskov | Writer |