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1983 film by Viktor Tregubovich

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Magistral (Russian: Магистраль) is a 1983 Soviet railroad drama film based on the book "Zharkie peregony" by Vladimir Barabashov and directed by Viktor Tregubovich.

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Set in the 1980s Soviet Union, the film centers on a disastrous collision on the Siberian railway called "Magistral" and the chaotic circumstances pertinent to that accident. "Magistral" railway has many big and small problems, outdated infrastructure, inadequate management and poor resources under the Soviet bureaucracy. The railroad's throughput is lower than necessary, so one hasty decision sends a cargo train on a collision course with a passenger train. At the same time the alarm system fails and communication channels malfunction, so the top managers remain oblivious to the emerging disaster. Eventually the cargo train collides head on with the passenger train, causing much damage and human suffering. Soviet administration chairman summons the railroad management to a brainstorming meeting that concludes that the disaster was caused by systemic degradation of the railroad.

Cast

Kirill Lavrov as Urzhumov

Vsevolod Kuznetsov as Zhelnin

Lyudmila Gurchenko as Gvozdeva

Pavel Semenikhin as Sanka

Marina Tregubovich as Lyudmila

Vladimir Gostyukhin as Boychuk

Ivan Agafonov as Shilov

Vladimir Menshov as Potapov

Sergei Prokhanov as Student

Boris Sokolov as Feodor Isayev

Mikhail Pogorzhelsky as Urzhumov's assistant

Yuri Demich as Sergei Kolobov

Petr Shelokhonov as Chairman Gadalov

Feodor Odinokov

Igor Dmitriev as Igor Borisovich

Era Ziganshina

Aleksandr Lipov

Arkadiy Trusov

Natalia Egorova

Article from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), where it is maintained by volunteer editors.

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“Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.”
— W. S. Anglin, in Mathematics and History, elucidating the symmetry between the creative and logical aspects of mathematics.
“During the brief span of their lives they walked in their native garments down the great highway of a great nation; were laughed at, sworn at, chased, and fled from. Then they passed and were heard of no more.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, "May Day", Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).
“So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?”
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767), Book I, Ch. 7.
“The biggest construction project in U.S. history, Boston's "Big Dig," cost about $15 billion. In fact, the entire cost of building the interstate highway system, expressed in today's dollars, was $540 billion -- less than a third of what was wasted in Iraq.”
— Loren Thompson , “Iraq Opportunity Costs: What America Could Have Had If It Never Invaded”, Forbes, (Jun 27, 2014).

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Highway: public road intended for rapid movement of motor vehicles be · 2002 American film by James Cox · play by Sophie Treadwell · 2022 film by K. V. Guhan

Notable quotes

“Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.”
— W. S. Anglin, in Mathematics and History, elucidating the symmetry between the creative and logical aspects of mathematics.
“During the brief span of their lives they walked in their native garments down the great highway of a great nation; were laughed at, sworn at, chased, and fled from. Then they passed and were heard of no more.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, "May Day", Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).
“So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?”
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767), Book I, Ch. 7.
“The biggest construction project in U.S. history, Boston's "Big Dig," cost about $15 billion. In fact, the entire cost of building the interstate highway system, expressed in today's dollars, was $540 billion -- less than a third of what was wasted in Iraq.”
— Loren Thompson , “Iraq Opportunity Costs: What America Could Have Had If It Never Invaded”, Forbes, (Jun 27, 2014).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Magistral (Russian: Магистраль) is a 1983 Soviet railroad drama film based on the book "Zharkie peregony" by Vladimir Barabashov and directed by Viktor Tregubovich.

Contents

Plot

Set in the 1980s Soviet Union, the film centers on a disastrous collision on the Siberian railway called "Magistral" and the chaotic circumstances pertinent to that accident. "Magistral" railway has many big and small problems, outdated infrastructure, inadequate management and poor resources under the Soviet bureaucracy. The railroad's throughput is lower than necessary, so one hasty decision sends a cargo train on a collision course with a passenger train. At the same time the alarm system fails and communication channels malfunction, so the top managers remain oblivious to the emerging disaster. Eventually the cargo train collides head on with the passenger train, causing much damage and human suffering. Soviet administration chairman summons the railroad management to a brainstorming meeting that concludes that the disaster was caused by systemic degradation of the railroad.

Cast

Kirill Lavrov as Urzhumov

Vsevolod Kuznetsov as Zhelnin

Lyudmila Gurchenko as Gvozdeva

Pavel Semenikhin as Sanka

Marina Tregubovich as Lyudmila

Vladimir Gostyukhin as Boychuk

Ivan Agafonov as Shilov

Vladimir Menshov as Potapov

Sergei Prokhanov as Student

Boris Sokolov as Feodor Isayev

Mikhail Pogorzhelsky as Urzhumov's assistant

Yuri Demich as Sergei Kolobov

Petr Shelokhonov as Chairman Gadalov

Feodor Odinokov

Igor Dmitriev as Igor Borisovich

Era Ziganshina

Aleksandr Lipov

Arkadiy Trusov

Natalia Egorova

Article from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), where it is maintained by volunteer editors.