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Odessa is supplied with water from the Dniester River. The water pumping station is located in Belyaevka. The length of the conduit is about 40 kilometers. In 1941, during the fighting, Odessa was surrounded, Belyaevka captured. The city was left almost without water, its issuance was sharply limited. In order to give the city water, a special detachment of brave sailors was formed, who, entering the rear of the enemy and seizing a pumping station in Belyaevka, turned on the water supply and held their positions for a while. Few survived ... “The Thirst” is a Soviet black and white film about the Great Patriotic War. Filmed in 1959 by director Evgeny Tashkov at the Odessa Film Studio. The plot of the film is based on real events, in which the writer Grigory Pozhenyan participated. Screenwriter: Gregory Pozhenyan. Director: Evgeny Tashkov. Operator: Peter Todorovsky. Artists: A. Ovsyankin, Muza Panaeva. Directed by: N. Sawa. Composer: Andrei Eshpay. Sound engineer: E. Goncharenko. Editor: V. Bondarenko. Grim: S. Mikhlinoy. Installation: T. Don. Odessa State Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor - Evgeny Duschenko. Chief Consultant: Lieutenant-General Nikolai Oslikovsky, Consultant: Colonel A. Grachev. Director of the picture: S. Beniova. Music: Irina Ryzhova (Denisova) was performed in the film for the first time by the song “Two shores” (“The night was with showers ...”) to lyrics by Grigory Pozhenyan and music by Andrei Eshpai, who wrote the music for the majority of films by Yevgeny Tashkov. The song subsequently gained widespread popularity and entered the repertoires of Maya Kristalinskaya, Gelena Velikanova and other performers. The film also uses the music of Frédéric Chopin and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Cast: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Valentina Khmara, Yuri Belov, Anton Dotsenko, Vladimir Ivanov, Nikolai Timofeev, Boris Bityukov, Boris Goduntsov, Vasily Vekshin, Mullaian Suyargulov, Oleg Golubitsky. Films are officially presented by the Odessa Film Studio. Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxh_TkSralaVxmsLNYCXeoQ We wish you a pleasant viewing! #EvgenyTashkov #GrigoryPozhenyan #VyacheslavTikhonov