Lyudmila Kolpakova

Anna Georgievna Smirnova is a serious, businesslike and judicious person. It was these strengths of her character that helped the woman achieve high career results. Anna is a deputy and director of a textile factory in the Moscow region, who has long put an end to her personal life. She lives with her elderly mother. Her husband died, and her only daughter, Irina, is married. But suddenly, in a sanatorium in the southern resort of Anna, she meets a man named Volodya. He is a Muscovite, a former pilot, and now a driver. Volodya is younger than Anna, behind him two unsuccessful marriages. Between already middle-aged people a feeling of mutual sympathy erupts.

One evening Grisha dares to approach Polinka, a girl from the neighbouring village he has admired for a long time. They begin to date and all goes well until the day when Grisha’s impudent friend Kostya decides to ridicule Polinka in public.

Timofej Korneev is a fresh member of the Communist Party. He works as an engineer for Leningrad candy factory. Since most of its colleagues are young girls he soon finds himself in a love triangle. Moreover, there's a third girl trapped by a scheming Jehovah Witnesses sect. Will Timofej be able to stop the brainwashing?

During the Great Patriotic War, battalion commander Pavel Akimov fell in love with the military translator Anechka Belozerova, but the circumstances of military life separated them.

After a test flight, pilot Sergei Sazonov was invited to a group of astronauts. Intensive preparation begins for the flight into space: classes in the weightlessness chamber, constant study. Sergei decides that he does not have the right to meet with a cheerful student Natasha, whom his friends accuse of frivolity. But their telephone conversation ends up asking him to marry him.

Student work, artistic director Sergei Gerasimov. A post as a clerk is promised to the impoverished teacher Vremensky, who has lost his job. However, as a result of the intrigues of influential city ladies, the director of the public schools gives the position to the young careerist Polzukhin.