March of the Soviet Tankmen

"March of the Soviet Tankmen"
Song by Peter Kirichek
Composer(s)Pokrass brothers
Lyricist(s)Boris Laskin
Audio
"March of the Soviet Tankmen" on YouTube

The "March of the Soviet Tankmen" (Russian: Марш советских танкистов) is a 1939 Soviet military march song composed by the Pokrass brothers and with lyrics by Boris Savelyevich Laskin [ru] (Борис Савельевич Ласкин),[1] whose debut was in the 1939 movie Tractor Drivers,[2] in which the role of Klim Yarko is played by Nikolai Kryuchkov.[3] Later the song was used in World War II short titled "Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland" by Ivanov-Vano (1941).[4] Valery Dunaevsky commented that the song "was full of fighting spirit" in his book A Daughter of the "Enemy of the People" (2015).[5]

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  2. ^ Egorova, Tatiana (10 July 2014). Soviet Film Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-37725-1. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Cardiometric detection of effects and patterns of emotions responses of a human individual to verbal, auditory and visual stimuli" (PDF). Cardiometry: Open Access e-Journal. 25 March 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Soviet cartoons of the Second World War, part 2". History of Russian and Eastern European Animation. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  5. ^ Dunaevsky, Valery (28 October 2015). A Daughter of the "Enemy of the People". Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-5035-7490-8. Retrieved 4 December 2021.