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Its original lyrics were written by Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009) in collaboration with El-Registan (1899–1945), and its music was composed by Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946). For a two-decade interval following de-Stalinization, the anthem was performed without lyrics. The second set of lyrics, also written by Mikhalkov and in which ...
"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 harmonized to it later.
The original 1945 version is triumphal in tune, with its brass fanfares and ecstatic chords extended upward with the aid of trumpets, as part of the V-E Day celebrations. That arrangement by A. Alexandrov is very much in the tradition of final choruses in 19th-century Italian grand opera, and shows how he originally envisaged this composition.
Some anthems' melody can be sung in the Soviet Union anthem lyrics (Ukrainian and Belarus are the most fitted in this case). Most of these anthems were replaced during or after the dissolution of the USSR ; Belarus , Kazakhstan (until 2006), Tajikistan , Turkmenistan (until 1996), and Uzbekistan kept the melodies, but with different lyrics.
"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 change of the Soviet Union's national anthem from "The Internationale" to the "State Anthem of the USSR" was a factor in the production of the 1944 movie Hymn of the Nations, which made use of an orchestration of "The Internationale" that Arturo Toscanini had already done the year before for a 1943 NBC radio broadcast commemorating the ...
The "March of the Soviet Tankmen" (Russian: Марш советских танкистов, romanized: Marsh sovetskikh tankistov) is a 1939 Soviet military march song composed by the Pokrass brothers and with lyrics by Boris Savelyevich Laskin [] (Борис Савельевич Ласкин), [1] whose debut was in the 1939 movie Tractor Drivers, [2] in which the role of Klim Yarko is played ...
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