Galina Vodyanitskaya

Zoya Kosmodem'yanskaya

Ростислав Плятт

German Soldier

Yekaterina Skvortsova

Zoya as a child

Kseniya Tarasova

Zoya's Mother

Nikolai Ryzhov

Zoya's Father

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Boris Fomin

Boris Poslavsky

Owl

Владимир Волчик

Komsomol Secretary

Vera Popova

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)

Алексей Баталов

Alyosha Batalov, Zoya's classmate (uncredited)

Lev Arnshtam