![]() Its opening bars were borrowed from one of Alexandrov's previous pieces, " Life has become better", which was based on a quote by former Soviet Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin at the First All-Union Meeting of the Stakhanovites on 17 November 1935. The anthem's music was originally composed by Alexander Alexandrov in 1938 for the Hymn of the Bolshevik Party. The second set of lyrics, also written by Mikhalkov and in which Stalin's name was omitted, was adopted in 1977.Ī decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the music was adopted with new lyrics, again written by Mikhalkov, as the Russian national anthem. For a two-decade interval following de-Stalinization, the anthem was performed without lyrics. ![]() Its original lyrics were written by Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009) in collaboration with Gabriyel’ Arkadyevich Ureklyan (1899–1945), and its music was composed by Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946). The " State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" was the national anthem of the Soviet Union and the regional anthem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1991, replacing " The Internationale". ![]() Problems playing this file? See media help.
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