Actually its an old folk song that was sang by very poor Burlaks that pulled ships up the Volga river. In fact, _Burlak_ originated from the word _Bujdak_, which means Homeless. Most Burlaks were landless peasants. Its pretty crazy to look back in history like this. These people were so incredibly poor it was cheaper to pay a bunch of them to do the work of a few horses/mules. Basically, these people were economically and on a per hour basis speaking, their time was worth much less than a fucking _donkey's_ time.
I've been to Moscow twice and I do like it so very much. I'm planning on returning in 2022 to take the Trans Siberian RR from Moscow to Vladivostok and see Mother Russia!
Looking at this comment section, it's pretty sad that you can't seen to go on any Russian associated video on UA-cam these days without "WAAH WAH COMMUNISM THIS POLITICS THAT" drama happening. Seriously people, just shut up and enjoy the music.
Ольга Казанцева Это потому, что у них коленки начинают дрожать, и эта широта и мощь ассоциируются у них с угрозой, символом которой для них стал "коммунизм".)))
Here's a fun fact: This music "The Song of the Volga Boatman", is featured in the NES videogame "Pipe Dream" (a Tetris-like game, only the object is to lay enough pipe on a square grid for an oil path to flow). FTWDNK: The player gets 3 wrenches that act as arcade game credits. When you run out, it's game over. If you make a mistake, like placing the wrong pipe in front of the flow path, and you haven't gotten very far from the START point, the game abruptly disintegrates all of your work on the grid, leaving only the stub. There's silence, a wrench disappears, then "The Song of the Volga Boatman" is played (in crude, 8-bit style). Music is fascinating. A kid could hear this with zero knowledge of the piece's origin and know that the piece is ominous. In the context of "Pipe Dream", it's chastising the player for screwing up.
Took up learning Russian, it was great! Opened up new music and cultures. I still love my American lifestyle, but Russia seems pretty cool. All I need now is to get a Russian keyboard so I don't have to constantly switch and mix up the English letter spelling and the original Russian letters XD
+richard bell Communism will never die either. As long as the working class is subjugated, there will always be at least a few good comrades trying to bring it back.
British Commodore I vehemently disagree with the idea that North Korea is communist. Not really sure what to make of the first statement, because I would agree that socialism =/= communism, but I think the way you could argue that differs depending on whether you approach it from a Marxist or neoliberal perspective. What do you mean when you say that?
Tonight I started playing tug of war with a blanket with my 4 year old grand-daughter. As I pulled, I hummed from memory the tune of the Volga Boat Song. Though I only heard it in Russian, over 60 years ago, I knew just from the melody that this was a song sung by men as they pulled boats and barges along the river. What a powerful image captured in song.
Man, I've been trying to find the name to the instrumentals I've heard for dang near 12 years now. Never thought it was a Soviet Anthem. Now I can finally stop searching and enjoy the music.
It took me a while to learn that Russian folk songs often fill out stanzas with random syllables. When it sounds like it's saying "ay da da ay da," it really IS saying "ay da da ay da." That's just how they do it.
aaah that warm Russian voice I can imagine sitting inside this Home, outside -30 degrees, Freezing, hearing this guy sing with a bottle of vodka, and an open fireplace
Hell, if you don't imagine a factory with people working their asses off like slaves, or a bunch of guys pulling from a rope, hoisting sails, you had NO childhood.
Wow I loved it CloudStrife! The pictures are quite something... and that's Polyushka Pole (Oh my field, my fiel) sung by the rrac if i'm correct? I really this version, think i'm gona save it :D
the cccp may have colapsed, but the union will never be broken, it will forever live on in the hearts and minds of the people, long live the motherland, never shall the union shatter!!
That young man with the beard looks really handsom lol kinda like cheguera. I'm not kurdish myself, actually half german. But I admire values of people and their rich culture, i don't care where they come from. It's character that gives people respect which is universal and no one can argue with that...
Mrspiky47 hehe correct :) that is the song. Hehe thanks ^^ it's pictures of my dad and his friends in the red army :) Damn I wish I could have lived in that era .
Capitalism or not,this song exudes patriotic soul....that sort of proudness that you get when you look at something that you belong to and belongs to you...that something can be a god or a beast. Its like a cruel mother that can send you off to die at the other side of the earth on foreign land..you either love and fear it or hate and fear it.
This is the classic debate between Hobbes and Locke. Hobbes contends that people are inherently bad and only behave well when external force is applied to coerce that good behavior. Locke contends that people are basically good and good people will do good with or without coercion, while the criminally mentally ill will largely ignore potential or imminent consequences while they do their misdeeds.
I think we can all agree that all we all really want is to have control of our own lives and means of production with little to no government involved. And for people who argue against this, it is you who is disillusioned and brainwashed. This framework HAS worked in smaller communities. The problem is when you're the only one doing this you are at an increased risk of being exploited by outside sources/countries.
I WISH A FUTURE OF SINCERE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ALL THE PEOPLE, RUSSIAN. AMERICAN, EUROPEAN AND OF ALL THE WORLD. PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP AR THE ONLY WAY TO RESOLVE THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS. tHANKS FOR THIS SONG FROM ITALY.
actually this song is about the river Volga. which is the mother river if Volgagrad. or as it was in ww2 Stalingrad and as it is today Leningrad. it's about the boat men who work the river day in and day out to keep the city alive.
Lenningrad is now St Petersburg and is a coastal city on the Baltic Sea. Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd during DeStalinization, and is on the Volga River. They are over 1,500 kilometers apart.
Dammit, I take one peek at the comment box and I see this SDKFZ162 kid and his middle-school classmates debating with each-other. I'm so glad I don't take the time to read through all of it.
Эй, ухнем! Эй, ухнем! Ещё разик, ещё да раз! Эй, ухнем! Эй, ухнем! Ещё разик, ещё да раз! Разовьём мы берёзу, Разовьём мы кудряву! Ай-да, да ай-да, Aй-да, да ай-да, Разовьём мы кудряву. Мы по бережку идём, Песню солнышку поём
Chorus translation: Yo, heave ho! Yo, heave ho! Once more, once again, still once more Yo, heave ho! Yo, heave ho! Once more, once again, still once more
Hmm it remembers me of this dialog for some reason ~Commissar Viktor Durasov Welcome to Stalingrad You're about to begin the greatest moment of your life The germans have lost hundreds of tanks and planes Hitler's brutalized hordes are now advancing towards Stalingrad over mountains of their own dead bodies Our Bolshevik party, our nation, our great contry have given us the task not to let the enemy reach the Volga and to defend the City of Stalingrad! Foward! Against the enemy! Up into the unremitting battle comrades, for Stalingrad, for our great contry! Not one Step Back! Cowards and traitors will be shot! Do not count days! do not count miles! Count only the number of germans you have killed! Kill the german- This is your Mother's prayer Kill the german- This is the cry of your russian Earth Do not waver! Do not let up! Kill! Death to the german invader! (Death to the german invader!) Move! Go! Go! Move! Move!
Actually its an old folk song that was sang by very poor Burlaks that pulled ships up the Volga river. In fact, _Burlak_ originated from the word _Bujdak_, which means Homeless. Most Burlaks were landless peasants.
Its pretty crazy to look back in history like this. These people were so incredibly poor it was cheaper to pay a bunch of them to do the work of a few horses/mules. Basically, these people were economically and on a per hour basis speaking, their time was worth much less than a fucking _donkey's_ time.
Brian the Brain THANK YOU. tired of this song getting so much hate
I could listen to this song 100 milion times and it would never lose its power.
Makes me want to go beat the shit out of some Nazis XD
WE MUST PUSH TINY CART!
I've been to Moscow twice and I do like it so very much. I'm planning on returning in 2022 to take the Trans Siberian RR from Moscow to Vladivostok and see Mother Russia!
Dan apa kelanjutannya? Pada tahun ini
@@tokhlismiah2671 I planned for 2020, COVID arrived. I was planning to go this past May, the war ended my plans. Maybe sometime in the future.
Hope you are going to visit us comrade
@@ultraflopp2802 I do so very much. It was COVID in 2020 which put the kibosh on my trip and now, the war. I yearn, to return to Mother Russia!
@@southenglish1 ждем у нас в москве )
Tired of these political debates. I'm American yet I like this song. Time to break these damn barriers.
Amen! Preach it brother!
Nothing spoils culture faster than mixing it with politics!
Looking at this comment section, it's pretty sad that you can't seen to go on any Russian associated video on UA-cam these days without "WAAH WAH COMMUNISM THIS POLITICS THAT" drama happening.
Seriously people, just shut up and enjoy the music.
Starkami Theater I'm glad to see someone that finally understands
*our comment section
It cost 400,000 dollars to listen to this song...for 12 seconds.
How do I change my seconds into dollars?
I want my 7.6 million dollars now.
***** team fortress 2
Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe. Maybe.
But I have yet to meet one who can outsmart bullet.
Heavy Weapons Guy?
Gvntb TF2. Best damn game ever.
People, people, it doesn't matter what country you're from, what nationality you have. When we listen to this song, we can all be considered comrades.
Back when men were still men.
lol yeah because having half the population die from cholera or smallpox is so much better than political correctness
Patrick: ''Push!!''
(Bikini Bottomites push Bikini Bottom)
omfg the choir came in right when I read this 😂😂
@@UncrownedGlobe3 bruh same xD
Quelle voix, toujours un plaisir d'écouter
I get goosebumps whenever I hear this song.
bro are you still alive?
я фигею с иностранцев. любая русская песня превращается в обсуждение капитализма и коммунизма :)))))
Ольга Казанцева Это потому, что у них коленки начинают дрожать, и эта широта и мощь ассоциируются у них с угрозой, символом которой для них стал "коммунизм".)))
Ольга Казанцева It really stirs the heat, the balls.
Nearly feel the pain, of the Russian people,, 1800 to 2000.
Beautifull,
Thank You, Russia.
+Ольга Казанцева Я согласен
+Ольга Казанцева я точно знаю
+nick kopschaninow Я тоже
SONG WAS WRITTEN IN XIX CENTRY
Caps lock much?
Elliott Grimes that everybody understand its not a communists song. This song was written by the russian people
Kirill killir The whole point of communism is that it is by the people...
Also, how do you know that the composer did not agree with communist ideals?
Christonian Coder It was by a german, who used to be a cameraman of hitler's, and it was filmed near Moscow, specifically Kharkiv
TheRussianCommrade Huh. Good to know.
2:58 Is anyone else hearing "Charlie come home? "
Yes....... from 2021, how are you?
This is music, and a great song. Just keep it as it is, would you...? Enjoy the incredible power that emanate from the music and this great choir.
Here's a fun fact: This music "The Song of the Volga Boatman", is featured in the NES videogame "Pipe Dream" (a Tetris-like game, only the object is to lay enough pipe on a square grid for an oil path to flow). FTWDNK: The player gets 3 wrenches that act as arcade game credits. When you run out, it's game over. If you make a mistake, like placing the wrong pipe in front of the flow path, and you haven't gotten very far from the START point, the game abruptly disintegrates all of your work on the grid, leaving only the stub. There's silence, a wrench disappears, then "The Song of the Volga Boatman" is played (in crude, 8-bit style). Music is fascinating. A kid could hear this with zero knowledge of the piece's origin and know that the piece is ominous. In the context of "Pipe Dream", it's chastising the player for screwing up.
I haven't played it on the nes but i have played it on the com...but that was a long time ago. Now i wanna play it
also mike tysons punch out
It is also Soda Popinski's intro music in Punch Out
Thumbs up if you opened a bottle of vodka and you heard this theme in your mind while you were in an acid trip.
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To me, that's just a Tuesday morning.
Soulassassin0g you made my day thank )))
when the choir is starting singing.... damn
This is just my favorite song...
Powerful sound to it
Took up learning Russian, it was great! Opened up new music and cultures. I still love my American lifestyle, but Russia seems pretty cool. All I need now is to get a Russian keyboard so I don't have to constantly switch and mix up the English letter spelling and the original Russian letters XD
Hi, I'm just here to say I like the song. Go on back to your flame wars now.
I believe I learned of this song and how to sing it in the fourth grade. That would be 1959. In retrospect I find that intersting.
Communism may dead but with singing like that the Russian spirit will never die
+richard bell Communism will never die either. As long as the working class is subjugated, there will always be at least a few good comrades trying to bring it back.
Uh, China still exists you know?
British Commodore I wouldn't really call China a communist country though, so...
+Anchorheads Most Communisms are Marxist Socialisms in disguise I agree. Perhaps... North Korea?
British Commodore I vehemently disagree with the idea that North Korea is communist. Not really sure what to make of the first statement, because I would agree that socialism =/= communism, but I think the way you could argue that differs depending on whether you approach it from a Marxist or neoliberal perspective. What do you mean when you say that?
Then clearly I need a diet change if I want to ascend to their skill level!
Tonight I started playing tug of war with a blanket with my 4 year old grand-daughter. As I pulled, I hummed from memory the tune of the Volga Boat Song. Though I only heard it in Russian, over 60 years ago, I knew just from the melody that this was a song sung by men as they pulled boats and barges along the river.
What a powerful image captured in song.
Man, I've been trying to find the name to the instrumentals I've heard for dang near 12 years now. Never thought it was a Soviet Anthem. Now I can finally stop searching and enjoy the music.
Soda Popinski
im listening to this during a rainstorm perfect atmospher
I've got no idea what they're singing but it sounds pretty awesome
when im digging holes at work this song is in my head lol
everytime i hear this song i feel like ''THEY ARE COMING!''
beautiful song . Thank you.
It took me a while to learn that Russian folk songs often fill out stanzas with random syllables. When it sounds like it's saying "ay da da ay da," it really IS saying "ay da da ay da." That's just how they do it.
There something awe inspiring of an all male choir and rousing folk music.
Ahh, this is such a powerful song, I love it!
i feel the same way wish people just enjoy music rather than argue who is right
i cry everytime i hear this because its so beautifull...(sorry if my english is bad)
Indeed, What a voice
They are not fishing, they are pulling the boat, walking ashore
@MjolnerBane one of his most famous quotes was, ahem "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem."
Finaly, a song that makes you look epic even when you're just fishing.
such a good song to listen too
Reminds me of the good old days ,,,, when we worked in factory #17 day and night,,,, making military vehicles,,, that didn't work.
Some Russians have very nice deep singing voice. The song is found on the wikipedia in original and English translation.
The Red Army Choir is, in my opinion the finest group of singers ever assembled.
no i think like you, the song is just unbelievable, the rest is history.
aaah that warm Russian voice
I can imagine sitting inside this Home, outside -30 degrees, Freezing, hearing this guy sing with a bottle of vodka, and an open fireplace
It's not that they don't care, it's that they have to do what is necessary. It's rather hard to have a country with billions.
Hell, if you don't imagine a factory with people working their asses off like slaves, or a bunch of guys pulling from a rope, hoisting sails, you had NO childhood.
thats true... they were unskilled at the beginning of the war.. but there were Guards divisions who were battlehard veterans ,,
2:20 best part
I also have the "Russian Red Army Choir" singing "Prince Igor" loaded on my computer. If you don't have it, get it, its worth it.
this is the sample for Canibus' Second Round KO song.... sweet
Nothing is impossible my freind :)
If we all fight together, everything is possible.
This beautiful song is why I exclusively play the Heavy in Team Fortress 2.
Wow I loved it CloudStrife! The pictures are quite something... and that's Polyushka Pole (Oh my field, my fiel) sung by the rrac if i'm correct? I really this version, think i'm gona save it :D
"ROTOTOTOTOOO! ROTOTO COME SING WITH ME!"
For the greater good...for the people!
the cccp may have colapsed, but the union will never be broken, it will forever live on in the hearts and minds of the people, long live the motherland, never shall the union shatter!!
this song, the russian national anthem ... man, the russians have epic gloriousness down to a science
So I'm Dutch and I got here thanks to one of my teachers who is half russian and forced us to sing this song and I like it :')
MUCH earlier than you think my friend) This song was officially published in 1865 :P
1000th comment!
It’s been a while since I watched this channel
That young man with the beard looks really handsom lol kinda like cheguera. I'm not kurdish myself, actually half german. But I admire values of people and their rich culture, i don't care where they come from. It's character that gives people respect which is universal and no one can argue with that...
this video changed my life
They put a segment of this song, along with Polyushka Poly at the beginning of some battles in World of Tanks.
True and they had the Night Witches in their Stormovic tank busters.
Very emotional, in a manly way.
''there is no land behind us beyond the volga river'' said the defenders of stalingrad...their example marks our path to the final victory!!!
Mrspiky47 hehe correct :) that is the song. Hehe thanks ^^ it's pictures of my dad and his friends in the red army :)
Damn I wish I could have lived in that era .
Da da da da. Da da da da. Come sing with me! Da da da da da. Russian music and Heavy are both awsome :D
soviet musics doesnot dominate those lyrics that hard these days thats y i lisen classics like this one .these songs has life
Esa grabación es con Arthur Einsen como solista y fue grabada en Londres por Discos Ángel.
Волга, Волга, мать-река... Прекрасный.
This is Ivan Rebroff singing alongside the red army choir! He was one of the greatest voices of the 20th century!
Capitalism or not,this song exudes patriotic soul....that sort of proudness that you get when you look at something that you belong to and belongs to you...that something can be a god or a beast. Its like a cruel mother that can send you off to die at the other side of the earth on foreign land..you either love and fear it or hate and fear it.
OUR song
@DrOktobermensch "The history learns us that the history don't learns us." -Voltaire
Did you know that remix of this song is actually very popular "hard work song" in cartoons?
Thanks to share this awsome classic, be proud to be Russians, long live RUSSIA
Yes I igree with that Philosofy !!!
Wow, just wow..too cool.
what a beautiful song
This is the classic debate between Hobbes and Locke. Hobbes contends that people are inherently bad and only behave well when external force is applied to coerce that good behavior. Locke contends that people are basically good and good people will do good with or without coercion, while the criminally mentally ill will largely ignore potential or imminent consequences while they do their misdeeds.
I think we can all agree that all we all really want is to have control of our own lives and means of production with little to no government involved. And for people who argue against this, it is you who is disillusioned and brainwashed. This framework HAS worked in smaller communities. The problem is when you're the only one doing this you are at an increased risk of being exploited by outside sources/countries.
I WISH A FUTURE OF SINCERE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ALL THE PEOPLE, RUSSIAN. AMERICAN, EUROPEAN AND OF ALL THE WORLD. PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP AR THE ONLY WAY TO RESOLVE THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS. tHANKS FOR THIS SONG FROM ITALY.
only the red army choir can sing the same lyrics for 3 minutes and 48 seconds and still have it be badass.
actually this song is about the river Volga. which is the mother river if Volgagrad. or as it was in ww2 Stalingrad and as it is today Leningrad. it's about the boat men who work the river day in and day out to keep the city alive.
Lenningrad is now St Petersburg and is a coastal city on the Baltic Sea. Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd during DeStalinization, and is on the Volga River. They are over 1,500 kilometers apart.
@haytxa911 I don't think the red Army Choir had been formed yet until after the second world war, but they were fucking awesome.
2:55 HEYYYYYY JOHNNY COME HOME
It's so old there's arguably elements of pre-Christian sun worship in the lyrics.
Dammit, I take one peek at the comment box and I see this SDKFZ162 kid and his middle-school classmates debating with each-other. I'm so glad I don't take the time to read through all of it.
native americans, phillipines, cubans......
Dude
the list goes on
and on
and on
Эй, ухнем!
Эй, ухнем!
Ещё разик, ещё да раз!
Эй, ухнем!
Эй, ухнем!
Ещё разик, ещё да раз!
Разовьём мы берёзу,
Разовьём мы кудряву!
Ай-да, да ай-да,
Aй-да, да ай-да,
Разовьём мы кудряву.
Мы по бережку идём,
Песню солнышку поём
@ChoujiMan Indeed ! I wasn 't expecting heavy was singing real russians songs
Chorus translation:
Yo, heave ho!
Yo, heave ho!
Once more, once again, still once more
Yo, heave ho!
Yo, heave ho!
Once more, once again, still once more
Hmm it remembers me of this dialog for some reason
~Commissar Viktor Durasov
Welcome to Stalingrad
You're about to begin the greatest moment of your life
The germans have lost hundreds of tanks and planes
Hitler's brutalized hordes are now advancing towards Stalingrad over mountains of their own dead bodies
Our Bolshevik party, our nation, our great contry have given us the task not to let the enemy reach the Volga and to defend the City of Stalingrad!
Foward! Against the enemy!
Up into the unremitting battle comrades, for Stalingrad, for our great contry!
Not one Step Back! Cowards and traitors will be shot!
Do not count days! do not count miles!
Count only the number of germans you have killed!
Kill the german- This is your Mother's prayer
Kill the german- This is the cry of your russian Earth
Do not waver! Do not let up! Kill!
Death to the german invader!
(Death to the german invader!)
Move! Go! Go! Move! Move!
im gona sing this for a school talent show in a year or two. like seriously