Eternal memory to the heroes who fell for the freedom and independence of our homeland. Gods and the steppe storm, you cant know your share, maybe youll fold your wings in the middle of the walls. Kuman, alada prevogi, with the power of the kurya, arrows will strike the circles of pestilence, my friend kur. Im not, im not going out, dear boss, pollen, tuba, earthen all around, choking earth. Narovik byvam young. You are a class on the praying word of the sun, you are such a happy little darling. Children cannot be forgotten there. This year we celebrate the 79th anniversary of the great victory. Tonight we will talk about songs of the war years that have not lost their relevance, but how invisible threads unite our feelings with memory. You and i are in the village of vskhody, where there is a wonderful house of culture, built at the expense of mikhail isakovsky, originally the katyusha song museum. Michael before the war, isakovsky came almost every year, here in early june of 1936 he conceived the lines to blossom. Variants of his poem, the version that he liked most, this version was performed on november 28 , 1938, dear girl valentina batishchego, here she is in front of you. When this girl came on stage and sang songs, there was a groan from applause in the hall, she is poor, she sang for the second time, she sang for the third time, with such a warm acceptance the life of a wonderful song began katyusha take care of the earth, she says to her beloved katyusha, and love, rest assured, i will save. thats the meaning of this song. Who was the girl who became the heroine of the wonderful work, isokupsky did not leave any memories. Closer, the version is that the heroine of the song katyusha, a girl from the vskhodsky district, and we have a version of older people who claim that she went out onto the steep bank, where a symbolic sign is now erected, it is called so, katyushin bank. Nikolay, what for you, for the military man , who, as i know, has been since 2014 been on the battlefield for years. This song is a memory first of all, it is a great honor for me to always perform it, that is, i and my greatgrandfather. It was necessary to wait until the main forces arrived, because some part of the troops were defeated, they held the enemy back, the enemys counteroffensive, that is , a lot of shells were fired there, then in the end the cannon simply spat on them, well, they hit until until they arrived, they held out for several hours until the main forces arrived, just like that the enemys counteroffensive fizzled out, here s a very familiar story from reality and. That is, we directly stood and are standing on the border of our hometown, thank you very much, they blossomed, the flowers are on your windowsills, and i am with a bouquet, in love, your admirer, you are not you give me peace even in my dreams. My katyusha, my spring, i had a dream of just the two of us, hot sun, summer, pond, and we sing about how good we feel, another moment, and youre Holding Hands with the baby, i recognize my own face in his face, tears happiness, god, i became a father, im drawn to him hands, he smiles, but through the disturbing sounds, i wake up, and my old mother is crying at home at the window, son, wake up, war has come to our house. About the brightening of the clouds, the flood of fog in the hall, we, kotyusha, went out on a high day above the rue, a difficult hour had come, and we were not expecting it, i was looking forward to the beginning of a happy life, but nothing would ring them out. Medals and will proudly lie on a shelf collecting dust, but im kidding, dear, that medals for me, its all dust, it all doesnt make sense, but i want my grandson to say, in vitali, this is my grandfather, he bravely stood for his homeland fought, and i dont know, katya, what will happen next, i know that we will definitely win, and im not afraid to get my hands dirty, this is a war, and we didnt start it, but we will finish, when its not yet certain, its going on a bright red flag on. Berlin, but in the meantime, blood improves the soil, descendants will call this war great koila, the song started. I miss your eyes so close, fate so gloriously united souls and so cruelly separated us, but i am alive, my katyusha is alive. No matter what they say to enemies, traitors, dont listen to anything, they say im dead, they it seemed, and no matter what happens, the main thing is to remember that i dont need anything other than your love, my idol is a frontline path, i am a proud warrior who really wants to become a good husband, and i will return, i will hug you from the doorway, i will quietly cry, as if childishly, on your tender finger, ill pull the ring, forever your kodyusha, soviet soldier, for the light and blessings of the pears, the vibrations floated over the river, we straightened it out, on a high bank on a steep one, we watered it, pratsyusha, on a high one. Thank you very much, the song kochusha together with Nikolai Romanenko was performed by the legendary and beloved our alexandrov ensemble. Gennady ksenofontovich, of course, the history of your ensemble is inextricably linked with the history of our country and, of course, with the great patriotic war. Id like to start like this. Countries and the song is a holy war, if we already say, a holy war, a huge country, rise up, fight, by force, alexander vasilyevich, our leader, he was eager to do Something Like this for the front, here on. Battle from our archive the First Edition of this song was in 1943, then it was called the song march 25 years of the red army, and we also have the program of this concert, where it was performed for the first time and it was performed on february 22, 1943, precisely the years when there were the most terrible, the most critical times, the most critical times, it was at this time. A song was created that today is called indestructible, legendary, and of course, this song is a symbol of our army. Since then, we have opened all our concerts with this song. I want to say that russian folk song is also the main genre in which our team works, because these songs are always they waited and are waiting at the front, and these songs were always perceived by the soldiers as native news from home, it always brought warmth to the hearts of our soldiers, and with a saving green. You put me to sleep, you put me to sleep, you put me to sleep kolinka, kolinka, my kolinka, saluyagoda, raspberry, my raspberry, kalinka, my kalinka, saluyagoda, raspberry, raspberry, uh, uh, and i want to say that our artillery also worked and today fulfills an important mission, being close to our fighters. Thank you very much, the wonderful actress olga budina is in our studio, for in which the song, or rather for the history of the family, is very significant. Please tell me the body touches my grandfather. I am the granddaughter of a real hero of the great patriotic war, this is your grandfather, right . My grandfathers name is ignatia fedorovich gotsman. He was born in the belarusian ussr, in the minsk region in 1921 , on september 23. And, as you understand, in the year the great patriotic war began, he was only 20 years old. Before that, he entered the kharkov tank school immediately after school. Already in the rank of lieutenant, he first began to command the combat crew of an antitank 45 mm guns, then as part of the selfpropelled artillery regiment 1441, he went through the battle route from kursk to warsaw, he finished his service, that is, he finished fighting, one might say, only in august. 1946 also the japanese war, yes, that is , my grandfather drank everything that was possible, and i would like to tell you what he received, what awards, because of course, this is such a very big pride in our family, that means he received his first award in 1943 for the fact that. He was near the village of soborovka, he needed to stop the breakthrough of our defense, then 70 heavy tanks were moving towards us, up to thirty of them were tigers, and my grandfather was the first to fire a salvo and immediately knocked out the tiger, from his second hit the tiger burst into flames, he, of course, commanded ours. He commanded the katyushas, of course , it was precisely these legendary, legendary katyushas, and after the second strike the tiger flared up, this is a very interesting wording, we found it on. The documents are very interesting, as it was written, which means that its commander wrote, comrade gotsman, being the gun commander did not flinch, but was the first to open fire on the tanks, the vaunted tiger flared up from the second shell fired by comrade gotsman, what beautiful formulations there were, in fortyfour, yes, for this he received the order of the red star, this is a very high order, yes, this is the award my grandfather. He received the second award already in 1944, and he accomplished two feats at once on january 27 , 1944, he knocked out two heavy tanks; almost a month later, on february 17, 1944, also during the breakthrough of the District Group enemy, comrade gotsman, that is, my grandfather, showed exceptional courage, he could do it alone. Destroy 150 manpower and knocked out two tanks, one of which was a tiger, these invincible tigers, for this feat he received, for these two feats he received a government award, the order of the patriotic war, first degree, and then he already received a third award, this government award medal for the victory over germany in the great patriotic war of 19411945, yes, a heroic person, i know that you are not you stop. And honor is glory, well, this is the order of the lugansk peoples republic, i accepted it with honor, im proud, i also have a gorlovka medal from your hometown, well , we just happened to be there since 1914, so i had to see this. From the beginning of the fourteenth year they burned, scorched, raped, killed, its like everything in the forty first, there are a lot of parallels, and with that legendary time, stand back, shelter i want to remember another very important symbol of that time this, of course, is the victory parade, and i think for each of us it is a very serious symbol, for you, thats what you think it is, a victory parade, well, you already said, kolya, this is that very symbol. And courage, tears, and joy, and troubles, this is that very peak, the cleansing of some people in the army, when these enemy banners were thrown, they were simply not thrown, but thrown at the feet of the victors, then this tradition, because this , its, its not just beautiful, its really courageous. Its clear for sure, because otherwise, just like for a parade, you can go to a song why do we sing them, those songs are from the thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, these are old songs, no, these are not old songs, someone said that history is what is tomorrow, not what was yesterday , it absolutely does not have a history this is what yesterday needs to be dragged, these are our traditions, history is what yesterday, these are your ancestors who also fought, yes, yes, we will now show you, lets see, here, imagine, this is mine uncle and my grandfather, do you believe, vasily ivanovich, ivan vasilyevich, uncle, heres a young man, yes, he died, that means he died was wounded on may 30, 1945, so. In frankfurt on odor, in our family it was preserved after the end of the war, after the end, he was wounded on the eighth, from the eighth to the 9th of may, he already knew about everything and, but now. Couldnt stand it my uncle couldnt stand it, he died, but the most amazing thing is that he met his father, my grandfather, uh, in berlin, uh, at the end of april, and the grandfather was completely sure that his son remained alive and returned home, and to my wife, my grandmother, he said, uh, thats it, thats it, vanechka is all right, i saw him right there on the eve of the victory, everything was fine, but. Vanya was wounded, then he was taken to the hospital to frankfurt on odor, we only had a legend, a funeral and a legend that my grandmother went to germany to visit his grave, and several years ago, while filming a picture about our grandfathers, i didnt even know which frankfurt on odor or on the main it was, we were on odor, i assumed that most likely on odor, they came to ours. Cemetery of a soviet soldier, a red army soldier, yes, we are building a huge beautiful park, i say, lets distribute it into sectors and look for the gullible, we found private overichev in frankfurt on odar, i brought the earth, dug up a little of my native land there, this grave now i know where it is, our whole family, sergei, i would like to invite you to the stage so that you sing a song for us, together with andrei rnonachev, an absolute young creature of 8 years old, the song where the homeland begins, it was first performed in the film by Vladimir Basov , shield sword, here are its authors, veniamin basner and Mikhail Matusovsky. Where does the homeland begin, with the picture in your primer, with good and faithful comrades, living in the neighboring yard, or maybe it starts with the song that our mother sang to us, with the fact that in any trials, we cant hurt anyone, where the homeland begins, the Council Bench dodge. From the same birch tree that grows in the field, bending in the wind, or maybe it begins with the spring quartz plant, from this country road, which has no end in sight. Where does the homeland begin with the windows burning in the distance, with my fathers old pudenka, which we found somewhere in the closet, or maybe it begins with the sound of carriage wheels. From the slander that in your youth you brought to her in your heart, where the homeland begins. On the day of victory at the first, and what were you drinking there, darkskinned woman, commander, war all this is coming, how is it with you, maestra, everything is fine, they are falling, where is my 100 grams for the downed grasshopper, and what do you think the house will be like . I love you, masha, guys, we will live, the enemy does not want to give in. The sky is frowning meanly, there is a chill on the street, and longing is calling me, let what is not forgotten, not get lost in the heart, the memory of the heroes of the day, let it survive on the ground under your feet, but behind your back the family is alive, the dacha lives there, she has her own destiny, a long, happy one. And a smile on his face, clutching a talisman in his hand, someone fell , got up, someone couldnt get up, to the fallen brothers and fathers who stood to the end, i dedicate these lines, we stand for you today, our fallen, for the country, for our guys who became heroes, we stand for you. Today we stand, our fallen, for the country, for our guys who became heroes, something with a pure sound, the heart is very close, in this word the homeland, the sky is too low i watch closely , it seems that the rain will fall, time will write down the names, those who did not betray their relatives, did not hide in difficult times. Behind your backs , your loved ones will enter into the calm with a calm sail, in your wifes hand is a talisman, someone got up, someone couldnt get up, they know how to take the fallen, to those who survived to the end i dedicate these terms, we stand for you today, our fallen , for the country, for our guys, hero. Become, we stand for you today, our fallen, for the country, for our guys, who have become heroes. During these holidays, our studio plays songs that still support our soldiers on the front line today. Oleg gazmanov and yuri strelkin have just performed a completely new song, which was performed for the first time this year. Oleg, please tell me, the thing is that i have a huge project, its called springs. Well, we have good singers, we have vocalists, we have them. This means a program there or a type of voice, where everyone sings beautifully, and we thought that they would send us 500600 songs, so for some reason we will choose one of these, there will be good songs. They sent us about 25 thousand works over the course of a year, you know, it turned out to be exactly the wave for the program, the springs are correctly called, these springs are already a fullflowing river, this is a community, this is not just some kind of action, this is a community of creative people who write about the country, we have no jury, no jury, only the people select these songs, thats surprising, we dont say, these songs are needed patriotic or unpatriotic, the people sing only patriotic songs only in support of the soldiers who are now, im all, im absorbed in this project, what am i talking about im telling you, on this project a song appeared that didnt even make it to the finals, this song, why not, because the level of songs is very high, which. Goes, i noticed this song, i really liked it, then i met the author, yuri strelkin, yes, yura strelkin wrote it, it was written in a modern way, he is much younger than me, this guy, but we are like musicians, we found each other, it was very easy for us, we sang this song, made an actual video, which is based on documentary footage and this song is so flew, she literally had millions of views on vk everywhere in a week. So im just happy, because i have a lot of guys and girls like that, they sing so well, they sing about the country, oleg, we can remember your song. Officer, who is already more than 30 years old, who has truly become a peoples song, i sing to the officer, the mothers of those who were burned, return them back, alive, this is your performance in donetsk, yes, yes, officers, officers, your heart patrolled, for russia. It happened in donetsk in lugansk, everywhere this is happening now with this song, i actually i just start singing and then people start singing along, when did you write . It was simply dedicated to the military, i wrote it in the ninetyfirst year, then the beginning of perestroika, i had a feeling that something was wrong with us, it was no longer the beginning of perestroika, this was already the beginning of a new russia, yes, the beginning of a new russia , but in this new russia they treated the army in a completely disgusting way, i can now say that a huge number of military people were thrown out of the army, we were told that we live poorly because we spend so much on the army, so everyone thought so, yes. It was very bad for the army, i thought that not a single state in any country ever repays military people, because military people risk their health and lives, its not paid, you cant pay, you know, its always been like this, so respect for this, well, im an officer, in this song an officer is a collective image, but not like a commanding officer, hes a military man, a man, a man who is an officer. I wrote this song, but they didnt notice this song right away, i was even offended, i think how such a song seemed to turn out good, the first time, it turned out to be timely, then they began to slowly get up, i dont know, i can tell you this, that is, its interesting, please tell me, the first time it was in the kremlin palace, that means, when elson was still there, that means, im singing this song, suddenly an officer with medals stands in the middle of the hall, well , imagine, the commanderinchief is sitting, this violation, in principle, is caught by the officer. Not like that, in the middle of the hall, then another one gets up, then another, and people start to get up, i almost forgot the words, its just that hes sitting yeltsin is nearby