"A film about the national hero of the Bashkir people Salavat Yulaev, the leader of the Bashkirs in the peasant uprising led by Yemelyan Pugachev."
Arslan Muboryakov
as Salavat Yulaev (as A. Muboryakov)
Abdullamin Zubairov
as Beekeeper Babay (as A. Zubairov)
Gimaletdin Mingazhev
as Yulay, Salavat's father (as Mingazhev)
Rim Syrtlanov
as Bukhair (as R. Sartlanov)
Mikhail Bolduman
as Emelyan Pugachyov (as M. Bolduman)
Nikolay Kryuchkov
as Khlopusha (as N. Kryuchkov)
Sakhi Saitov
as Kinzya (as S. Saitov)
Vali Galimov
as Mulla (as V. Galimov)
Khaziakhmet Bukharskiy
as Rysabai (as Kh. Bukharskiy)
Sergei Blinnikov
as Perfiltsev (as S. Blinnikov)
Nina Nikitina
as Oksana (as N. Nikitina)
Irina Fedotova
as Amina (as I. Fedotova)
Lev Potyomkin
as Leader of the punitive squad (as A. Potyomkin)
Andrey Fayt
as Officer (as A. Fayt)
Georgi Millyar
as Manager of the mine (as G. Millyar)
Yakov Protazanov
Director
O. Kolodny
Executive Producer
A. Ulyanovskiy
Assistant Director
Sergey Voronkov
Art Direction
Aram Khachaturyan
Original Music Composer
Stepan Zlobin
Writer
Aleksandr Shelenkov
Director of Photography
N.A. Zhuravlyov
Editor
Galina Spevak
V. Ladyagin
Production Design
S. Kuznetsov