Pre-War Songs

Cheerful

• "If War Tomorrow" ("Esli zavtra voina")
• "Spain Will Be Free" ("Ispanija budet svobodnoi")
• "The Song of Horse Army Men" ("Konarmeiskaia pesnia")
• "The March of the Soviet Tankmen" ("Marsh Sovetskikh tankistov")
• "The March from the movie "Traktoristy" ("Tractor Men")" (music of "The March of the Soviet Tankmen" + "Three Tankmen")
• "The March of Stalin’s Aircraft" ("Marsh Stalinskoi Aviatsii")
• "Oh, This Field" {known in the West as "The Song of Plains" ("Poliushko pole")}
• Mixture of the march "We are Red Cavalry"
• March "The Salute of Moscow" ("Saliut Moskvy ")
• March "The March of Soviet Army" ("Marsh Sovetskoi Armii")
• March "The Parade March" ("Paradnyi marsh ")
• March "The Ceremonial March" ("Torzhestvennyi marsh ")
• Some versions of the ceremonial fanfares on the theme of some famous Soviet songs and marches
• "The Three Tankmen" ("Tri tankista")

Lyrics

• "Katyusha" ("Kat'yusha")
• "May’s Moscow" ("Moskva maiskaia")
• "And Who Does Know" ("I kto ego znaet")

Fields:

1. Title (Russian Title in translit)
2. First String (Russian translit)
3. Year
4. Brief info
5. Details (Comments, Translation, Transliterated text)
6. Original text (Cyrillic)
7. Downloads

Cheerful

1. "If War Tomorrow" ("Esli zavtra voina")

2. "Esli zavtra voina, esli vrag napadiot..."

3. 1937

4. -

5. Details

6. Original Russian text

7. Downloads:
   • Red Banner orchestra of the Red Army songs of Aleksandrov

   http://retro.samnet.ru/music/phono/beforewar/ansambl_-_esli_zavtra_vojna_6331.mp3

   • Railroad Jazz-orchestra of D. Pokrass

   http://retro.samnet.ru/music/phono/beforewar/zheleznodorozhnyj_dzhaz-orkestr_-_esli_zavtra_vojna.mp3

   • Unspecified records

   http://slava-cccp.narod.ru/zavvoina.mp3

   http://www.9may.ru/songs_store/zavvoina.mp3

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/zavvoina.mp3

   
   

1. "Spain Will Be Free" ("Ispanija budet svobodnoi")
2. "Idut na Madrid generaly,/Ispanija gnevom kipit..."
3. -
4. Devoted to Civil war in Spain
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • an unknown singer

   http://www.karakort.com

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/ispania.mp3

   • G. Vinogradov

   http://www.karakort.com

   V. Kandelaki

   • http://www.karakort.com

1. "The Song of Horse Army Men" ("Konarmeiskaia pesnia")
2. "Po voennoi doroge,/Shiol v bor'be i trevoge..."
3. 1935
4. The song devoted to the Red Cavalry of Civil War times
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • D. Demjanov, 1934

   http://www.karakort.com

   • I. Baranov

   http://www.karakort.com

   • an unknown singer – 2141 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/18year.mp3

1. "The March of the Soviet Tankmen" ("Marsh Sovetskikh tankistov")
2. "Bronia krepka, i tanki nashi bystry,/I nashi liudi muzhestva polny..."
3. Late 1930th
4. One of the most popular prewar songs.
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • http://slava-cccp.narod.ru/martank.mp3
   • http://www.chamtec.com/materials/marshtankistov.mp3
   • an unknown singer – 638 Kb
   • http://download.sovmusic.ru/m32/martank.mp3

1. "The March from the movie "Traktoristy" ("Tractor Men")" (music of "The March of the Soviet Tankmen" + "Three Tankmen")
2. No words
3. -
4. -
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • The Orchestra of the NKO (the People Commissariat [Ministry] of Defense) of the USSR under the management of S.A.Chernetskii (record of 1939) – 1131 Kb

   http://retro.samnet.ru/music/phono/waltz/march-traktoristy.mp3

1. "The March of Stalin’s Aircraft" ("Marsh Stalinskoi Aviatsii")
2. "My rozhdeny, chtob skazku sdelat' byl'iu,.."
3. 1931
4. The hymn of Soviet pilots
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads
   1. http://www.karakort.com
   2. http://www.karakort.com
   • an unknown singer – 2752 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/marair4.mp3

1. "Oh, This Field" {known in the West as "The Song of Plains" ("Poliushko pole")}
2. "Poliushko-pole,/Poliushko - shiroko pole,.."
3. 1935
4. Very popular pre-war song
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • Chorus of the Red Army (Chorus of Alexandrov???) – 2879 Kb

   http://militarymusiconline.com/zips/(USSR)-Song_Of_The_Plains.zip

   • Unspecified:

   http://www.karakort.com

   • Pre-war variant

   http://www.karakort.com

   • The White army variant

   http://www.karakort.com

   
   

1. Mixture of the march "We are Red Cavalry" (see the description of the song "We are Red Cavalry") and of some other Soviet pre-WWII melodies.
2. No words
3. -
4. -
5. -
6. -
7. Downloads:
   • - an unknown singer – 2310 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/redcav3.mp3

1. March "The Salute of Moscow" ("Saliut Moskvy ")
2. No words
3. -
4. -
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • the Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR – 4223 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/salute.mp3

1. March "The March of Soviet Army" ("Marsh Sovetskoi Armii")
2. No words
3. -
4. Mixture of some famous Soviet marches
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • an unknown singer – 7740 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/redcav2.mp3

1. March "The Parade March" ("Paradnyi marsh ")
2. No words
3. -
4. -
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • the Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR – 3218 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/parade.mp3

1. March "The Ceremonial March" ("Torzhestvennyi marsh ")
2. No words
3. -
4. -
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • the Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR – 2196 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/torzhest.mp3

1. Some versions of the ceremonial fanfares on the theme of some famous Soviet songs and marches
2. No words
3. -
4. -
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • an unknown singer – 3902 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/fanfare3.mp3

1. "The Three Tankmen" ("Tri tankista")
2. "Na granitse tuchi khodiat khmuro, /Krai surovyi tishinoi ob'iat..."
3. 1938
4. The song-symbol of pre-war times.
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads :
   • Leonid Utiosov (Nikolai Kriuchkov???) – 2791 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/3tankis4.mp3

   http://www.karakort.com

   • an unknown singer – 4884 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/3tankist.mp3

   • http://www.karakort.com
   • choir of the Soviet Army

   http://www.karakort.com

   
   

Lyrics

1. "Katyusha" ("Kat'yusha")
2. "Rastsvetali yabloni i grushi, / Poplyli tumany nad rekoi..."
3. 1937
4. The song, which is one of the symbols of Russia abroad...
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • V. Batishcheva, P. Mikhailov, V, Tiutiunnik with the Orchestra under the management of V.N. Knushevitskii (the record of 1939) – 1223 Kb

     http://retro.samnet.ru/music/phono/war/katusha.mp3

   • an unknown singer (the record of 1938) – 2449 Kb

     http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/katyusha.mp3

   • Taara Sinyavskaya
   • http://www.karakort.com

1. "May’s Moscow" ("Moskva maiskaia")
2. "Utro krasit nezhnym svetom,/Steny drevnego Kremlia..."
3. 1937
4. -
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • an unknown singer – 3394 Kb

   http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/moscmay.mp3

   • N. Khromchenko with the Orchestra of the State Academical Large Theatre of USSR (the record of 1937) – 1452 Kb

   http://retro.samnet.ru/music/phono/moscow/hromchenko_-_moskva-majskaja.mp3

   1. http://www.karakort.com
   2. http://www.karakort.com
   3. http://www.karakort.com

1. "And Who Does Know" ("I kto ego znaet")
2. "Na zakate khodit paren',/ Vozle doma moego..."
3. -
4. -
5. Details
6. Original Russian text
7. Downloads:
   • Chorus of the name of Piatnitskii – 2440 Kb

   http://music70-80.narod.ru/mp/Retro/i_kto_ego_znaet.mp3