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Partner. Rain is pouring down. Shurik waits for a bus at the stop. He is so eager to help everyone else get on board that he himself is left behind, missing the first bus, then the second, then the third… At last he's on the bus (a ZIL-158V). Sprawled across one of the seats is a boorish giant of a man (Alexei Smirnov)... Delusion. Final exams are underway at the Polytechnic Institute. Shurik is searching for lecture notes to prepare for an exam. Stopping by the dorm room of a classmate nicknamed Dub (Viktor Pavlov), Shurik finds him wearing headphones. In fact, Dub and his friend Kostya (Viktor Zozulin) have figured out how to pass the exam without cramming or cheat sheets, using a radio transmitter and receiver, but he won't let Shurik in on the secret, telling him only that he's listening to Van Cliburn, hugely popular in those years... Operation Y. Warehouse manager Petukhov (Vladimir Vladislavsky) has been caught embezzling, and to save himself from the coming audit and escape the wrath of the law, he hires Coward, Dunce, and Experienced to stage a break-in at the warehouse and create the appear...