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Yandex Music (Russian: Яндекс Музыка, romanized: Yandeks Muzyka) is a Russian music streaming service developed by Yandex. Users select musical compositions, albums, collections of musical tracks to stream to their device on demand and receive personalized recommendations. The service is also available as web browser.
Blatnaya pesnya (Russian: блатная песня, IPA: [blɐtˈnajə ˈpʲesʲnʲə], "criminals' song") or blatnyak (Russian: блатняк, IPA: [blɐtʲˈnʲak]) is a genre of Russian song characterized by depictions of criminal subculture and the urban underworld which are often romanticized and have criminally-perverted humor in nature.
Cranes in the sky. The poem was originally written in Gamzatov's native Avar language, with many versions surrounding the initial wording.Its famous 1968 Russian translation was soon made by the prominent Russian poet and translator Naum Grebnev, and was turned into a song in 1969, becoming one of the best known Russian-language World War II ballads all over the world.
Russian chanson (Russian: русский шансон, romanized: russkiy shanson; from French "chanson") is a neologism for a musical genre covering a range of Russian songs, including city romance songs, author song performed by singer-songwriters, and blatnaya pesnya or "criminals' songs" that are based on the themes of the urban underclass and the criminal underworld.
"Tachanka" (/ t ə ˈ tʃ æ ŋ k ə /; Russian: Tачанка [tɐˈtɕankə]), also known as the "Song of the Tachanka" (Песня о Тачанке), is a Soviet revolutionary song from the late interwar period, composed by Konstantin Listov and written by Mikhail Ruderman in 1937.
"Katyusha" (Russian: Катюша [kɐˈtʲuʂə] ⓘ; a diminutive form of Екатерина, Yekaterina, 'Katherine') is a Soviet-era folk-based song and military march composed by Matvey Blanter in 1938, with lyrics in Russian written by the Soviet poet Mikhail Isakovsky.
The first great Russian composer to exploit native Russian music traditions into the realm of secular music was Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857), who composed the early Russian language operas Ivan Susanin and Ruslan and Lyudmila. They were neither the first operas in the Russian language nor the first by a Russian, but they gained fame for relying ...
The Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson recorded a version of the song in 1967 under the title "Stepp, min stepp" (steppe, my steppe) on the album Jazz på ryska (Jazz in Russian). The American rock band Jefferson Airplane had an instrumental version of the song, titled "Meadowlands", on their album Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane album) (1969).