RUSSIAN LYRICS

Rossiya svyaschennaya nasha dyerzhava
Rossiya lyubimaya nasha strana
Moguchaya volya vyelikaya slava
Tvoyo dostoyan'ye na vsya vryemyena!!!

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Slav'sya Otechestvo, nashe svobodnoye
Bratskikh narodov soyuz vyekovoy
Predkami dannaya mudrost' narodnaya
Slav'sya strana my gordimsya toboy!

Ot yuzhnykh morey do polyarnogo kraya
Raskinulis' nashi lesa i polya
Odna ty na svete odna ty takaya
Khranimaya bogom rodnaya zyemlya!

CHORUS

Shirokiy prostor dlya mechty i dlya zhizni
Gryaduschiye nam otkryvayut goda
Nam silu dayot nasha vernost' Otchiznye
Tak bylo, tak yest' i tak budet vsyegda!

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RUSSIAN LYRICS (Cyrillic script)

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

1. O Russia, for ever you're strong sacred country!
O Russia, for ever the land that we love!
The glory that's great and the will that is mighty -
So be they thy virtue for ages to come.

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Praised be the Fatherland, cherishing home of ours -
Cent'ries-old union of peoples in free,
Popular wisdom given us by forefathers.
Praised be our country! And we're proud of thee!

2. From seas in the South and up to polar border
Our woods and our meadows have stretched far away.
Alone in the whole world, you stand one and only!
By God saved as ever our dear native land.

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3. For generous dreaming, for living and longing
The years approaching give us ample scope.
With faith in our Homeland we are getting stronger.
It was so, it is so and it will be so!