| English: 'My Moscow' | |
|---|---|
| Моя Москва | |
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City anthem of Moscow, Russia | |
| Also known as | «Дорогая моя столица» (English: 'My Dear Capital') |
| Lyrics | Sergey Agranyan Mark Lisyansky |
| Music | Isaak Dunayevsky |
| Adopted | 1995 |
| Audio sample | |
"My Moscow", also known as "My Dear Capital", is the municipal anthem of the Russian capital of Moscow, officially adopted in 1995. The music was composed in 1941 by Isaak Dunayevsky and the lyrics were written by Sergey Agranyan and Mark Lisyansky. Singer Zoya Rozhdestvenskaya was the first person to perform this song.
The original lyrics had four verses, of which the last pertained to Joseph Stalin. They were replaced by the current lyrics which were introduced during the Leonid Brezhnev era.
History
In November 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, Junior Lieutenant and former journalist Mark Lisyansky was returning from a hospital in Yaroslavl to fight on the Kalinin Front. He later participated in the Battle of Moscow.
Worried about the fate of Moscow, Lisyansky wrote a poem in a notebook he titled "My Moscow (My Dear Capital)". After stopping on Pushkin Square, Lisyansky then sent his work to the literary journal Novy Mir. The poem was originally set to be published in the December 1941 issue of the magazine; however, due to the editorial office moving to Kuybyshev, it got pushed back to February 1942. The text then consisted of two verses, but later two more verses were added with the help of Sergey Agranyan.
Lyrics
Current official
| Russian original | Russian Latin alphabet | English translation |
|---|---|---|
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Я по свету немало хаживал, |
Ja po svetu nemalo hažival, |
Aplenty around the world I've wandered |
Original version
| Russian original | Russian Latin alphabet | English translation |
|---|---|---|
|
Я по свету немало хаживал, |
Ja po svetu nemalo hažival, |
Aplenty around the world I've wandered |
Notes
- Russian: Моя Москва, pronounced [mɐˈja mɐskˈva]
- Russian: Дорогая моя столица, pronounced [dərɐˈɡajə mɐˈja stɐˈlʲit͡sə]
References
- Yuri Kuvaldin (2006). Собрание сочинений в десяти томах, Том 8. Изд-во Книжный сад. ISBN 9785856761183.
Наша улица, Выпуски 1-6. Книжный сад. 2005. - ^ Мухтаров Е. Песни нашей Победы // 4 года из 1000: 65-летию Победы посвящается: / Авт. вступ. ст. проф. Ю. Ю. Иерусалимский; Авт. колл.: А. Е. Власов; А. В. Кононец, Е. О. Мухтаров, С. В. Рябинин, Д. Е. Озерова. — Ярославль: Ярновости, 2010. — С. 23—76. — 272 с. — ISBN 978-5-88697-190-3.
- Текст гимна города Москвы. Mos.ru.
- Текст гимна города Москвы. Kollege24.mskobr.ru.
- http://www.sovmusic.ru (for the Stalin-era and Brezhnev-era lyrics)
- http://www.personal.psu.edu/npi103/mos1_himn.htm (for the English translation)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080604144129/http://www.mos.ru/cgi-bin/pbl_web?vid=1&osn_id=0&subr_unom=1907&datedoc=0 (for the current lyrics)
External links
- MP3 Vocal and instrumental recordings of the current anthem
- A Brezhnev-era MP3 vocal recording
- A Stalin-era MP3 vocal recording
- "My Moscow" – korean version
- "My Moscow" – chinese version