In Fiction
- Yuri Krymov's novel Tanker "Derbent", and an eponymous Soviet feature film based on the book, are about Stakhanovitism in oil transport across the Caspian Sea.
- Elio Petri's film The Working Class Goes to Heaven centered around a Stakhanovite.
- Harry Turtledove's novel The Gladiator, set in an alternate world where Communism prevailed in the Cold War, has multiple references to Stakhanovites as productivity models.
- Andrzej Wajda's film Man of Marble explores the myth-making process behind a fictional Polish Stakhanovite, telling the story of his rise and eventual fall from grace.
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