Видео на YOUTUBE исполнения марша "Прощание славянки"
на опубликованные здесь же слова по-русски
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDICV_66Z5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tPSyXe5rd4
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Выражаю глубокую признательность замечательным лингвистам
Юлиану Бельскому и Ирине Велецкой за бесценные замечания
и пояснения.
High the tricolor banner is waving,
March is thundering over the ranks,
In a thin haze the columns are fading,
In the morning, the battle awaits.
Soldiers' mothers and wives, darling sisters
Left in sorrows will never forget,
How the regiments marched toward sinister
Distant glow of the purple sunset.
Farewell dear son,
You must all as one
Come through a hard fight,
But all of you come back alive.
The armor is red hot.
For the sake of Almighty God -
Hurray, men! Forward!
For our Homeland!
The worth of life is priced a naught.
Hurray, men! Forward!
For our Homeland -
For the sake of Almighty God.
Voiceless prayers are rising to Heaven,
'Dear Lord, bring them back from the war;
Give a chance to them all, let them happen
To knock on the familiar door.'
For the freedom of the sacred Motherland
You should give the hard wartime its due;
The long way through the war to the bitter end
Has been sprinkled with red bloody dew.
Farewell dear boys,
Unknown heroes,
It is a hard fight -
Not all of you come back alive.
Your glorious victories
Will bring the long-hoped-for peace.
We shall remember
Now and forever
The warriors' brave and gallant deeds.
We shall remember
Now and forever
The warriors' all heroic deeds.
Night gave way to a marvelous dawning
And Slavianka wholeheartedly met
Her victorious soldiers returning
From the land of the fading sunset.
Day by day, year by year they neglected
Their lives in all deadly attacks.
Ye for centuries will be remembered -
Fallen heroes who'll never come back.
Farewell dear friend!
For the Motherland
It's been a hard fight,
Not all of you came back alive.
Lest ever we forget!
They come in a monument
Of granite soldiers
Amidst white birches
As an immortal regiment.
Amidst white birches
Eternal soldiers
Stand as immortal regiment.
Slavianka - transliteration from Russian (Славянка) - means "Slavic girl"
Видео: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdJa0Tkc6c