- Country: Soviet Union
- Genres: Biography, Drama, Family
- Release:
- Director: Boris Grigorev
- Writers: Yuriy Nagibin
- Language: Russian | German
- Stars: Larisa Luzhina , Georgiy Burkov , Oleg Orlov , Svetlana Ponomaryova , Mayya Bulgakova , Vilnis Bekeris , Boris Grigorev , Sergei Novikov , Kirill Zagoruyko , Sveta Golovach
- Runtime: 65 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Tak nachinalas legenda , Так начиналась легенда , O Começo da Lenda (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , The Beginning of the Legend (Russian Federation) , So the Legend Began
- Plot: Biopic of Yuri Gagarin, the first man who flew around the Earth, from his birth to his dream of flying since he saw combat airplanes over his small village, during the German occupation in WWII.
- IMDB:tt0075304
Tak nachinalas legenda Cast · · · ALL
Boris Grigorev
Director
Larisa Luzhina
Anna Timofeyevna
Georgiy Burkov
Aleksei Ivanovich
Svetlana Ponomaryova
Nastya
Mayya Bulgakova
Kseniya Gerasimovna
Vilnis Bekeris
Albert
Boris Grigorev
Dronov
Aleksandr Kavalerov
polizei-translator
Vladimir Gusev
pilot
Yuriy Grigorev
pilot
Afanasi Kochetkov
Kuzma
Natalya Velichko
Nastya's mother
Vera Altayskaya
villager
Aleksey Krychenkov
military instructor
German Poloskov
Nastya's father
Ervin Knausmyuller
german officer
Yuriy Potyomkin
polizei