Department (film)

Professor Zavalishin, a major scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, author of a huge number of scientific works and an excellent teacher, was for many years the head of the Department of Cybernetics at the institute. After the death of Zavalishin, Professor Flyagin was appointed in his place, lacking stars from the sky as a scientist, but an ardent champion of order and discipline. The new head sincerely wants to improve the work of the department. However, he is devoid of the gift of leading people, loving them. Using methods more suitable for the army barracks, Flyagin receives the insulting nickname “ Arakcheev ” from his subordinates, and engages in open conflict with one of them, associate professor Spivak. Realizing his inability to be the head of the scientific team, Flyagin resigns from his post, despite the fact that most of the department staff are not against his leadership.

At the same time, associate professor Nina Ignatyevna Astashova irreconcilably struggling with pseudo-scientists who are unworthy of becoming on the same level as Zavalishin, Spivak and other distinguished employees of the institute, but openly and without hesitation climb into a warm place. In particular, while defending her doctoral dissertation, an associate professor at the adjacent department of Yakovkin, she is not embarrassed to openly accuse the dissertation of plagiarism (using the results obtained by his subordinates, without reference to the authors), as well as using mutually exclusive assumptions to build a model.

Parsing Zavalishin’s papers remaining after his death, Astashova discovers that in recent years, the professor, who had a hard time surviving the death of his beloved wife, withdrew from scientific activity and did not create anything significant. To support his good name in the scientific community, Astashova includes his own work under his name in the posthumous collection of works of the professor.

• Andrey Popov - Nikolai Nikolaevich Zavalishin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Cybernetics
• Svetlana Kuzmina (voiced by Irina Kupchenko ) - Nina Ignatyevna Astashova, assistant professor of the department
• Rostislav Yankovsky - Professor Flyagin, Acting Head of the Department after the death of Zavalishin
• Igor Yasulovich - Lev Markovich, associate professor of the department
• Victor Sternberg - Semen Petrovich Spivak, Associate Professor
• Alexander Kaydanovsky - geologist Valentin Orlov, married “friend” of Astashova
• Lyudmila Arinina - Lidia Mikhailovna, senior laboratory assistant of the department
• Victor Sergachev - Associate Professor Kravtsov, Deputy Head of the Department under Zavalishin
• Alexander Vokach - Dmitry Sergeevich Ternovsky, Associate Professor, oldest employee of the department
• Leonid Yarmolnik - Pasha Rubakin, Assistant of the Department
• Elena Stepanova - Maya Dudorova, computer technician, named granddaughter of Professor Zavalishin
• Elena Antonenko - Luda Velichko, student
• Vladimir Zemlyanikin - associate professor Yakovkin
• Galina Makarova - Daria Stepanovna, housekeeper Zavalishina
• Yuri Wutto - Alexander, the eldest son of Astashova, a student
• Lyudmila Ivanova - Anna Pavlovna Evgrafova

• Script writer: I. Grekova , Semyon Lungin , Pavel Lungin
• Director: Ivan Kiasashvili
• Operator: Vadim Vasilevsky, Igor Chernykh

• The film "Department" on the site kino-teatr.ru