Ребята с нашего двора [Rebyata s nashego dvora] [English translation]

La-la-la-la-la-la-la...

You'll get tired of the evening noise

And walk down the old avenues,

And you'll imagine your friends next to you,

And breathe in the student air...1

It's a wonderful evening, blissful...

It comes around every spring.

And a soulful conversation will carry on,

Swaying, like a suspension bridge.

And a soulful conversation will carry on,

Swaying, like a suspension bridge.

And you'll sing, na-na-na...

About the light in your favorite window,

About the stars, which in silence

Shine in the horizon.

And you'll sing,

And the maples will quietly sigh,

And again they'll sing with you,

The guys from our neighborhood.

And you'll be reminded of the sounds of the bayan2

From the flung-open windows at midnight.

And you'll remember red-haired Vitka - neighbor, fireball,

And Kiryukha, nicknamed "The Bottle".3

Remember, when we brought in a whole keg of beer -

Pissed the whole neighborhood off with that one!

And you and I secretly smoked on the balcony...

And then had a talk with your father.

And I'm still thankful to the spring

For the Fatherland, that still lives,

And for that one April day when Gagarin

Made his high flight.4

1. That is, that same air that you breathed in as a student; that is, the air you breathed when you were young.2. A Russian instrument, essentially identical in form to the accordion, with some technical differences in sound and structure.3. This isn't entirely clear to me, it seems Kiryukha is a familiar form of the name "Kirill" (hence Cyrillic, the alphabet of Kirill) but it also is, by one source, a slang term for a drinking buddy. Regardless, here it is being used as a proper noun, so it's taken as a name.4. Gagarin being the first man in space, his flight taking place on April 12th, 1961.