Moya Moskva
"My Moscow" (Russian: Моя Москва, romanized: Mojá Moskvá, pronounced [məˈja mɐskˈva]) is the municipal anthem of the Russian city of Moscow since 1995. The music was composed in 1941 by Isaak Dunayevsky and the lyrics were written by Sergey Agranyan and Mark Lisyansky.
English: 'My Moscow' | |
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Моя Москва | |
Municipal anthem of the City of Moscow | |
Lyrics | Sergey Agranyan Mark Lisyansky |
Music | Isaak Dunayevsky |
Adopted | 1995 |
The original performer was Zoya Rozhdestvenskaya.[1]
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.
Lyrics
Current lyrics since 1995
Russian (Cyrillic) | Romanization | English translation |
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Я по свету немало хаживал, |
Ja po svetu nemalo hažival, |
I have wandered a lot around the world, |
Brezhnev-era lyrics
Russian (Cyrillic) | Romanization | English translation |
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Я по свету немало хаживал, |
Ja po svetu nemalo hažival, |
I have wandered a lot around the world, |
Original Stalin-era lyrics
Russian (Cyrillic) | Romanization | English translation |
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Я по свету немало хаживал, |
Ja po svetu nemalo hažival, |
I have wandered a lot around the world, |
Notes
- German invasion in 1941, the defense of Moscow.
- 28 soldiers heroically fight to the bitter end the road to Moscow in 1941.
References
- Yuri Kuvaldin (2006). Собрание сочинений в десяти томах, Том 8. ISBN 9785856761183.
Наша улица, Выпуски 1-6. Книжный сад. 2005.
- http://www.sovmusic.ru (for the Stalin-era and Brezhnev-era lyrics)
- http://www.personal.psu.edu/npi103/mos1_himn.htm%5B%5D (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)
- Self-made transliterations