Countermeasure (Ukrainian: Відповідна міра), (Russian: Ответная мера, romanized: Otvetnaya mera) (Hungarian: Ellenintézkedés) is a 1974 Soviet political drama about the events around construction of oil and gas pipelines from Siberia to Europe during the Cold War.
Ukrainian manager Sergei Peresada and his girlfriend Nina Pavlova represent the Soviet side of the business negotiations between the USSR and West Germany.
At the same time, a quiet American man appears on the West German side, who abruptly refuse to supply the previously agreed-upon extra-large pipes for the pipeline.
Fifteen years later, while on a cruise, Peresada finally meets Balsen, his enigmatic and invisible counterpart working on the West German side of the pipeline project.
Pilyatskin wrote that the film's leading character, played by Petr Shelokhonov, makes a pleasant and strong impression from the very beginning of the story, but that the overall storyline was too complex.