Вечерняя песня | Слушай, Ленинград [Vechernyaya pesnya | Slushay, Leningrad] [English translation]

The city above the free Neva1

The working city of our glory

Listen, Leningrad, I'll sing to you

my sincere song.

Listen, Leningrad, I'll sing to you

my sincere song.

Here was, friends,

my Komsomol2 youth,

To fight for the native land with the young song

my peers went ahead with me.

Since this time on fire,

Wherever you met with me,

Old friends, in you I recognize

my own uneasy youth,

Old friends, in you I recognize

my own uneasy youth.

The song flies over the Neva1

The dear city falls asleep

In parks and gardens lime trees rustle

Good night, my home Leningrad,

In parks and gardens lime trees rustle

Good night, my home Leningrad.

1. a. b. A river in St. Petersburg, i.e. Leningrad2. Komsomol is an abbreviation of "Kommunisticheskiy soyuz molodyozhi", which is "Young Communist League"