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Long live, the creation by the people's will, The united, mighty Soviet Union! Chorus: Be glorified, our free motherland, Reliable stronghold of the people's friendship/happiness/glory! Banner of the Soviets, the banner of the people, May it lead from victory to victory! II Through storms, the sun of freedom shone on us, And Great Lenin ...
"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 parade was inspected by the commander of the Reserve Front, Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Budyonny, with musical accompaniment by a combined band made up of the Central Military Band of the People's Commissariat of Defence, the Band of the Dzerzhinsky Division, and the Staff Band of the Moscow Military District, both under the baton of Colonel Vasily Agapkin, then the Director of ...
As ground column concludes, the massed bands play either Long Live our State or Song of the Motherland, with the Moscow Higher Military Command School marching past as the last formation on the square before the mobile column with Victory Day being played beforehand as their cadets march at the rear.
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He also wrote cantatas including Cantata of the Party (1955), the oratorio October Soldier Defending the World (1967), Book of the Motherland (1979), plus the suite Guarding (1981). [1] Aleksandrov composed the song "Long Live Our State" (Да здравствует наша держава) to be the anthem of the Soviet Union.
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