Galina Vodyanitskaya

Zoya Kosmodem'yanskaya

Ростислав Плятт

German Soldier

Yekaterina Skvortsova

Zoya as a child

Ксения Тарасова

Zoya's Mother

Николай Рыжов

Zoya's Father

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Boris Fomin

Борис Пославский

Owl

Владимир Волчик

Komsomol Secretary

Вера Попова

Hostess of the house

Tamara Altseva

Anna Sergeevna, Zoya's Teacher

Zoya Zhukova

Zina, Zoya's classmate

Nikolai Bogatyryov

Petya Vasilev

Vladimir Podgornyy

German Officer

Екатерина Деревщикова

Zoya's friend (uncredited)

Alexeï Batalov

Alyosha Batalov, Zoya's classmate (uncredited)

Карл Гурняк

Parisan (uncredited)

Ольга Хорькова

Khorkova, Zoya's classmate (uncredited)

Владимир Липпарт

German Soldier (uncredited)

Михаил Трояновский

The Head teacher (uncredited)

Maria Vinogradova

Vinogradova, Zoya's classmate (uncredited)

Сергей Никонов

Izotov, wounded partisan (uncredited)