It Happened in the Donbas
Directed by	Leonid Lukov
Written by	Sergei Antonov Mikhail Bleiman
Cinematography	Aleksandr Gintsburg
Music by	Nikita Bogoslovsky
Distributed by	Soyuzdetfilm
Release date	11 July 1945 (1945-07-11)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

It Happened in the Donbas (Russian: Это было в Донбассе, romanized: Eto bylo v Donbasse) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Lukov based on a screenplay by Sergei Antonov and Mikhail Blajman.^[1] Produced by Soyuzdetfilm.

The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbas and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.

• Tatiana Okunevskaya as Natasha Loginova
• Yelena Tyapkina as Darya Timofeevna
• Vera Altayskaya as Marusya Shelkoplyas
• Yelena Izmailova as Lisa
• Ivan Pelttser as Afanasy Petrovich Kulygin, miner
• Ivan Pereverzev as Stepan Andreyevich Ryabinin
• Mariya Yarotskaya as old woman
• Vladimir Balashov as Pavlik Bazanov
• Sergei Komarov
• Aleksei Konsovsky
• Alexander Mikhailov as member of the YCL
• Boris Poslavsky as Nikolay Sergeyevich Loginov, a doctor
• Heinrich Greif as official labor exchange and the Gestapo
• Vyacheslav Dugin as Anton
• Inna Makarova as partisan
• Yevgeny Morgunov as underground worker
• Mikhail Kuznetsov as underground worker

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