It Happened in the Donbas

{{Infobox film

| name = It Happened in the Donbas

| image = It_Happened_in_the_Donbass.jpg

| caption =

| director = Leonid Lukov

| producer =

| writer = Sergei Antonov
Mikhail Bleiman

| narrator =

| starring =

| music = Nikita Bogoslovsky

| cinematography = Aleksandr Gintsburg

| editing =

| distributor = Soyuzdetfilm

| released = {{Film date|1945|07|11|df=y}}

| runtime = 102 minutes

| country = Soviet Union

| language = Russian

| budget =

| gross =

}}

It Happened in the Donbas ({{langx|ru|Это было в Донбассе|Eto bylo v Donbasse}}) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Lukov based on a screenplay by Sergei Antonov and Mikhail Blajman.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/kinohistoryofrus00jayl#page/387/mode/2up/|publisher=George Allen & Unwin|author=Jay Leyda|author-link=Jay Leyda|title=Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film|year=1960|page=387}} Produced by Soyuzdetfilm.

Plot

The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbas and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.