Russia National Anthem
Государственный гимн Российской Федерации
Gosudarstvenny gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii
State Anthem of the Russian Federation
Key Facts
- 1. Sergei Mikhalkov wrote lyrics for this melody three times: under Stalin (1943, with Gabriel El-Registan), under Brezhnev (a revision that dropped Stalin's name, adopted in 1977) and under Putin (2000), each time adjusting the ideology while keeping the same tune
- 2. Between 1990 and 2000, Russia used Glinka's wordless 'Patriotic Song' as its anthem; at the 2000 Sydney Olympics Russian medal winners had no words to sing along with it, a 'deafening silence' that embarrassed many in Russia
- 3. The melody began as Alexandrov's 'Song about the Party' of 1938, was rearranged as the solemn 'Hymn of the Bolshevik Party' for the party congress of March 1939, and became the Soviet state anthem in 1944
Russia National Anthem Lyrics
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Analysis
EditorialRussia's current anthem uses Alexander Alexandrov's melody for the Soviet anthem, which he first wrote for the 'Hymn of the Bolshevik Party'. In 1990, while still a Soviet republic, Russia adopted Mikhail Glinka's instrumental 'Patriotic Song' as its anthem and kept it after the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. In 2000, at the initiative of President Vladimir Putin, the Soviet-era melody was restored with new lyrics by Sergei Mikhalkov, who had co-written the Soviet anthem lyrics in 1943 and revised them in a version adopted in 1977. Mikhalkov thus wrote three sets of words for the same melody, under Stalin, Brezhnev and Putin.
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