Word: evgeny
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chukhrai's plucky heroine, Sasha (Nina Drobysheva), left alone during the war, all but flings herself into the arms of a heroic airman, Aleksei (Evgeni Urbanski, the brooding amputee of Ballad). While Aleksei is missing and presumed dead, she bears his child. Miraculously, he returns at war's end, and when Sasha's stuffy brother-in-law objects to their living together, she tells him to go to hell...
...several years, Professor Evgeni Talalayev, chief of microbiology at Irkutsk University, collected caterpillars that had died naturally. Eventually he isolated one cause of death: a virulent bacterium, which he used to infect and kill large numbers of caterpillars. He then dried their bodies and ground them to powder...
...first of these, the hero meets a soldier (Evgeni Urbanski) whose leg has been amputated. Invalided home, he is ashamed to face his wife as only half a man, decides to get lost instead-"Russia is big." The hero persuades him to go home. They arrive. The wife is not there. The soldier hangs on his crutches, a broken man. Suddenly a woman screams his name. His head snaps up. She runs to him, covers his face with kisses. All at once he sags with relief; a terrible joy fills his face; he crushes her in his arms...