The Train Goes East (Russian: Поезд идёт на восток) is a 1947 Soviet romantic comedy film[1] directed by Yuli Raizman.
[2][3][4][5] The film tells how on Victory Day, on the Moscow-Vladivostok train, Captain Lavrentiev meets with agronomist Zinaida Sokolova.
On the evening of May 9, 1945, as thousands celebrated Victory Day in the streets and squares of Moscow, a train departed from the Northern Station bound for Vladivostok.
Among the passengers were Zina Sokolova, a young horticulturist from Moscow who had recently graduated from the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, and Lavrentyev, a naval officer from Leningrad.
After an emergency landing, they traversed the forest in a horse-drawn cart, spent a night at a collective farm’s machine-tractor station, and eventually returned to the railway.