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"Long Live Our State" (Russian: Да здравствует наша держава) is a Soviet patriotic song, composed by Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov with lyrics by Alexander Shilov. The original melody was composed in the winter of 1942 after the Soviet victory in the Battle of Moscow, with the lyrics being har
The federal legislature established and approved the music of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union, with newly written lyrics, in December 2000. [citation needed] Boris Yeltsin criticized Putin for supporting the semi-reintroduction of the Soviet-era national anthem, although some opinion polls showed that many Russians favored this decision ...
"The Sacred War", [a] also known as "Arise, Great Country!", [b] is one of the most famous Soviet songs of World War II. The music is by Alexander Alexandrov, founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble and the musical composer of the State Anthem of the Soviet Union. The lyrics are by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. [1]
"The Patriotic Song" [a] was the national anthem of Russia from 1991 to 2000. It was previously the regional anthem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1990 until 1991 (until 1990 it used the State Anthem of the Soviet Union ), when it transformed into the Russian Federation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union .
In order to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Second World War, the Soviet government announced a competition for the best song about the war. . In March 1975, poet Vladimir Kharitonov, who had taken part in the war, [1] approached his traditional co-author, the young composer David Tukhmanov with a proposal to write a new song for the occasi
The "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" [a] is the national anthem of Russia.It uses the same melody as the "State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov, who had collaborated with Gabriel El-Registan on the original anthem. [3]
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For 38 consecutive years, millions of listeners in the Soviet Union actively heard the tune, regardless of the song's origin. The song was well-known to be "connected with a 'free voice' from the outside world." This made people forget about their cold pasts. [5] [6] The song became the unofficial anthem of the Russian opposition.