This exhilarating two-part film (“Soldier Ivan Brovkin” and “Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm”) presented to the country a new national hero – kind, modest, charming and… ne’er-do-well.
Efforts to re-equip the mine are underway, supported by young engineer Petukhov, who, with the encouragement of veteran miners Kuzma Kozodoev and Viktor Bugorkov, is developing an innovative coal extraction method.