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Here in Kuibyshev-Russian song-lyrics: Vasiliy Gregorievich Alparov-Hebrew: Rafi Shalchin-Melody: Gregory Fadorovich Ponomarenko-Singing: Izzy Hod-Arrangement, music, editing and recording: Meir Raz.
Notes written by Izzy Hod: The city on which this poem was written was called Samara and in 1935, Stalin changed its name to Kuibyshev, after the death of his friend Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev, who was exiled to the city in 1907, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, fled the city and returned to it, after Bolshevik activity and imprisonment. In 1917, he organized the October 1917 revolution in the city and its surroundings and liberated the city, as commander of the Red Army, from the hands of the commander of the White Army there, immediately after. In 1991, during the breakup of the Soviet Union, the city returned to being called Samara and the song, Here in Kuibyshev, which described the well-being of life in the city, as an example for the whole of Russia, was no longer relevant and except for the single performance by the Volga Choir, from Kuibyshev/Samara, there are no other professional performances of the song, that are easy to find on the Internet. The song is also on a four-song record, produced in 1961, but the record cannot be played for listening. Another recording that cannot be heard is also on the record from 2000. The song was also chosen as the flagsong for the movie of the same name. The Volga Choir from Kuibyshev/Samara, celebrated in 2017, sixty-five years since its foundation and in 2019, dedicated a concert in honor of the composer and conductor, Grigory Fedorovich Ponomarenko [1921-1996], who from 1952 and for ten years, in the city then called Kuibyshev, conducted the Volga Choir and even composed about twelve songs for the choir, some of them together with the poet, Vassily Gregorievich Alparov, including the song, Here in Kuibyshev. Valerian Kuibyshev died at a young age, forty-six, in 1935. Some say, because he spent a lot of time in prisons, where he even got sick and weakened, as well as because of an addiction to alcohol. Stalin accused Trotsky's supporters and even Trotsky himself, who, together with Lenin, led the revolution that brought Stalin to power, of conspiring to kill Kuibyshev and likewise, accused the doctors who treated Kuibyshev and joined them, in the great purges, of his political enemies, which began in the years 1937-1938 and in the meantime he immortalized the name of Kuibyshev, by naming the city and several other settlements, after Valerian Kuibyshev, and even naming streets and institutions in the city and other cities, after Valerian Kuibyshev. Valerian Kuibyshev in his life, was very close to Stalin and even very active and full of ideas, as a senior economic advisor, close to Stalin, in the early thirties of the twentieth century when Stalin strengthened his position in power. Kuibyshev expressed his fear that he was disturbing Stalin and might pay for it with his life, as happened to many others, including Trotsky himself and in fact, Kuibyshev's brother and Kuibyshev's first wife, were executed during the great purges of the thirties of the twentieth century. In 1950, the construction of the largest hydroelectric power plant in the whole of the Soviet Union began. The location of the station was on the river, Volga, near the city, Kuibyshev, and at the foot of the mountain range, Zhiguli. The city of Kuibyshev boasted the huge hydroelectric station and it was first called the Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Station. When the name of the city was changed back to Samara, the name of the station was changed to Zhiguli hydroelectric station. The importance of the station to the city of Kuibyshev is very great, which is why the poet Alparov included the Volga River and the Zhiguli mountain, along with the five seas, from the Baltic Sea to the Caspian Sea, which border the city, in the song, Here in Kuibyshev.
The State Volga Russian Folk Choir presents a concert program dedicated to the work of the Soviet folk artist Grigory Ponomarenko "And the Russian song sounds...". The program will feature popular works by Grigory Ponomarenko, as well as rare works created in different periods of creativity. Having visited many areas of the Volga region, Ponomarenko wrote many beautiful songs. Many of them became the "golden fund" for the Volga Choir. His works are not known not only in Russia, but also abroad. He knew the secret of the success of the Russian song - songs that are created on folk songs, on the melodic richness of song folklore. These songs will always remain in our hearts. In the program "And the song is Russian sounds..." more than usual will be presented small forms - duets, trios, quartet. We hope that the audience will be particularly interested in a new reading of the song "My Eternal Russ" on the text of Benjamin Burygin with instrumental accompaniment, saturated with new turns and texture. Grigory Ponomarenko was born on February 2, 1921 in Ukraine in chernigov region in a peasant family. He mastered his own music literacy. From the age of 5 he studied to play the bayan, and at the age of 12 he was already composing musical designs for the performances of the drama club "Communar" in the city of zaporizhia. In 1952, Ponomarenko was invited to the Volga Choir as music director and composer. During 10 years of work in the State Volga Russian folk choir, he created more than a dozen songs that were loved by the people. Among them are "Ivushka," "Volgari sing," "The Wolf Girl," "Good Dawns," "Girl's Happiness," "Oy, Volga, The Sea Land," "Over the Volgo buzzing," "Eh, Volga River, no heartache," "We're under Kuibyshev," "Spring, Russian steppe," "The Russians".
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev (Russian: Валериа́н Влади́мирович Ку́йбышев; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888-25 January 1935) was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army officer, and prominent Soviet politician.
The city of Samara (the administrative city of the Samara Oblast, Russia), the town of Bolgar (in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia), and the village of Haghartsin, Armenia were all renamed Kuybyshev during the period between 1935 and 1991. The towns of Kuybyshev in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, and Kuybyshev, Armenia, still have his name. There is a statue of him in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Volga People's Choir was founded in 1952, initially it consisted of ordinary workers, peasants, part of the intelligentsia, the organizer was Piotr Miloslavov. Creating a new group, Miloslavov said: "The Russian folk choir cannot be mixed and identified with the genre of academic choirs. It is necessary to connect the folk organic style with the customs and traditions of the region." The choir's work was based on the folk culture of the Volga region. Soon young musicians were invited to the Volga Choir of Miloslavov: Grigory Ponomarenko and Mikhail Chumakov, choreographer Mikhail Chernyshov, poets Vasily Alferov, Benjamin Burygin, in 1970 came the choreographer Vyacheslav Modzolevskiy, who changed the development of folk dance - today these are legendary names.
This year, 2017, one of the oldest creative collectives in the country - the State Volga Russian Folk Choir named after Pyotr Miloslavov celebrates its 65th anniversary. The choir, which has a permanent residence in Samara, is not accidentally called the Volga choir. In the vast primordially Russian region, which has absorbed the culture of dozens of peoples and tribes, this is the only collective of this kind. The date of creation is February 1952, and the place of birth of the choir - the city of Kuibyshev - is also not accidental. This time of construction, as it was customary to say, the giant of the country's hydropower - the Volga hydroelectric power station, and the Middle Volga, Zhiguli, among other things, are a true source of folk art. The Zhiguli Mountains (Russian: Жигулëвские горы) or simply Zhiguli (Russian: Жигули́, IPA: [ʐɨɡʊˈlʲi]), are a range of wooded mountains located in Russia on the right bank of the Volga River, inside the Samara bend. The mountains are an important source of limestone and oil (extracted since World War II) and are also popular as a scenic area for local and regional tourism. Their altitude reaches a maximum of c. 1,240 ft (380 m). The range is named for a nearby town Zhigulyovka (no longer extant), itself probably named for an early inhabitant, Zhegul (Russian: Жегуль).[1] Formerly, the range was known as the Lada, after the river pirates who used to hide out in its wooded valleys, a name which is still in popular local usage today. The Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station or Zhigulyovskaya Hydroelectric Station, formerly known as Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station is a large dam and hydroelectric station on the Volga River, located near Zhigulyovsk and Tolyatti in Samara Oblast of Russia. It is the sixth stage of the Volga-Kama Cascade of dams, and the second of them by installed power. The Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station or Zhigulyovskaya Hydroelectric Station, formerly known as Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station is a large dam and hydroelectric station on the Volga River, located near Zhigulyovsk and Tolyatti in Samara Oblast of Russia. It is the sixth stage of the Volga-Kama Cascade of dams, and the second of them by installed power. The Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station or Zhigulyovskaya Hydroelectric Station (Russian: Жигулёвская ГЭС, Zhigulyovskaya GES), formerly known as Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station (Kuybyshev GES) is a large dam and hydroelectric station on the Volga River, located near Zhigulyovsk and Tolyatti in Samara Oblast of Russia. It is the sixth stage of the Volga-Kama Cascade of dams, and the second of them by installed power. Construction started in 1950 and was completed in 1957. The complex consists of earth-fill dam, 2800 m long, 750 m wide and 52 m high, concrete spillway dam, 980 m long, power plant house, 700 m long, and two-lane navigable locks. Installed power is 2,488 MW, average annual production is 11,700 GWh. The power house has 20 generator units with Kaplan turbines, 4 of 120 MW and 16 of 125.5 MW at 22.5 m head. The dam forms Kuybyshev Reservoir. The composer and poet, Gregory Fadorovich Ponomarenko, was invited in 1952 to the city then called Kuibyshev to conduct a local choir, Volga, and did so for about ten years and even composed about twelve songs for the choir, some of them together with the poet Vasily Gregorievich Alparov, including the song , With us in Kuibyshev. In 1950, a giant construction project began of the largest hydroelectric power plant in the Soviet Union. The station was located on the river, Volga, near the city, Kuibyshev, and at the foot of the mountain range, Zhigoli. The city of Kuibyshev boasted the huge hydroelectric station and it was first called, The Hydroelectric Station of Kuibyshev. Since the name of the city was changed back to, Samra, the name of the station was changed to, The Hydroelectric Station of , Zhigoli. The importance of the station to the city of Kuibyshev is very great and that is why the poet Alprov included the, Volga River and the , Zhigoli mountain range, along with the five seas, from the, Baltic sea, to the, Caspian sea, bordering the city, in the song, With us in Kuibyshev.
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