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)