What is "nachalo"

Nachalo (The Beginning) was a Russian Marxist monthly magazine published in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1899.

Nachalo (, The Beginning) is a 1970 Soviet drama film directed by Gleb Panfilov and starring Inna Churikova as Pasha, a factory worker and small-time actress whose life is transformed first by falling in love with the married Arkady ( Leonid Kuravlyov) and then by being offered the lead in a movie about Joan of Arc.