Heavenly Slug (Russian: Небесный тихоход, romanized: Nebesny Tikhokhod) is a 1945 Soviet comedy film directed and written by Semyon Timoshenko.

The film tells the story of three wartime fighter pilot friends — Vasily Bulochkin, Semyon Tucha and Sergei Kaysarov — who make a pact to remain unattached to any women until the war ends, no matter how tempting the prospect.

However, the circumstances change when Major Vasily Vasilyevich Bulochkin is reassigned to the slower, less glamorous U-2 biplane squadron after an injury renders him unfit to fly high-speed fighters.

Bulochkin, accustomed to the speed and agility of fighter aircraft, initially finds his new role with the “night witches,” a squadron consisting entirely of female pilots, both humbling and frustrating.

When a reporter Valentina "Valya" Petrova from Pionerskaya Pravda, arrives at the airfield, Bulochkin finds himself drawn to her and soon follows suit, abandoning his vow of bachelorhood.

Valentina introduces Bulochkin and his friends to her father, a general in the air force, who good-naturedly points out the irony of the self-proclaimed bachelors succumbing to romance.

In the dance scene female parts are performed by professional dancers from the youth war ensemble headed by Arkady Obrant.