Legendary SevastopolMusic: Vano MuradeliText: Petr GragovWritten: 1954Ratified as the official anthem of #Sevastopol on 29.07.1994The song was first performed on the 17th of October 1954 at the Navy stadium by a joint 5000-strong choir of sailors...
..., the residents of Sevastopol, members of amateur artistic collectives, to the accompaniment of the joint military orchestra.Fly winged wind.Over seas, over land,Tell the whole world,About my beloved city.Tell to the whole world,How on the Crimean shores,Our grandfathers fought,And glorified in battle.[Chorus:]Legendary Sevastopol,Impregnable to enemies.Sevastopol, Sevastopol –The pride of #Russian sailors!Here we went to the rightful and holy battles,For our Motherland,And your previous g...
...lory,Have we multiplied.Having shrugged of black sailor overcoats,The Black Sea sailors, during the days of War,Went against tanks with only handgrenades,Your sons went to their deaths,[Chorus]If across the seaenemies should come to us with swords,We’ll meet the unwelcome guestswith annihilating fireThe whole of our dear country knows,That the battleships do not sleepAnd are guarding surelyThe shores of the homeland[Chorus]During the most vicious period of Ukranisation of #Crimea in 2006, ...
...Ukrainians tried to re-write the text, replacing “Russian sailors” with “Ukrainian sailors”, “Sevastopol” with “white-stone fortress”, and “Cossacks” were added. The reaction of the citizens was strongly negative, to say the least.Source: Beorn's BeehiveHigh-resolution video source at YouTube@BeornAndTheShieldmaidenBoost