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Goodbye rocky mountains. Music by E. Zharkovsky, lyrics by N. Bukin (1942)Performed by N. Kondratyuk. Landing of Marines of the Northern Fleet on the Rybachy PeninsulaIn the spring of 1940, Nikolai Bukin was called up for military service and assigned to the fleet - to the Musta-Tunturi mountains of Murmansk on the Rybachy Peninsula, where he spent the entire war. On that piece of land, sailors and Red Army soldiers steadfastly held the line: along the entire western border of the Soviet Union, 4.5 thousand kilometers, only one border sign remained uncaptured - on Rybachy. The Germans for four years were not able to take the peninsula in order to break through to Murmansk. The sailors nicknamed this legendary piece of land the "granite battleship". In 1942, Bukin's lines were born: I know I can't live without the sea, As the sea is dead without me. The music for the resulting verses was first written by V. Kochetov, and the political administration of the fleet recommended the song to the All-Union Radio Committee for performance and popularization "during the period of the Red Navy radio hour." Later, the music for Bukin's poems was written by another composer, Evgeny Zharkovsky. And after the performance on the All-Union Radio, real popularity came to the song. Text. Farewell, rocky mountains, The Motherland is calling for a feat! We went out to the open sea, On a stern and long journey. And the waves groan and cry, And splash on board the ship...Rybachy, Our dear land, has melted in the distant fog. My ship stubbornly shakes A steep sea wave, It lifts and again throws It into the boiling abyss. I will not return back soon, But there will be enough fire for the battle. I know, friends, that I cannot live without the sea, As the sea is dead without me. With a sailor's uneasy gait I'm going to meet my enemies, And then with a heroic victory I 'll return to the rocky shores. Although the waves groan and cry, And splash on board the ship, But the Rybachy will joyfully meet the heroes, Our dear land.
FAREWELL, ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Words of N. Bukin, Music E. Zharkovsky. words-1942, music-1943,
the song is dated 1944, in the text there are two small differences: "And splash on board the ship" (in the first and last verses) and "My ship stubbornly rocks" (in the second verse). The same year is dated in a number of other collections.
Rybachy Peninsula is the most northeastern part of Pechengsky District Rybachy Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Рыба́чий) of continental European Russia. Its name is translated as "Fisher Peninsula". It is included into Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast. https://lyricstranslate.com
"Farewell, Rocky Mountains" is a popular song by composer Yevgeny Zharkovsky based on poems by Nikolai Bukin,written in 1943. The original version of Bukin's poem, dated 1942 or 1943, was published under the title "I cannot live without the sea."
The author of the lyrics of the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" Nikolai Bukin throughout the Great Patriotic War served on the Rybachy Peninsula, located in the Murmansk region, near the Barents Sea. For 40 months in the coastal waters, Soviet sailors fought fierce battles with German troops trying to penetrate Murmansk. The invaders never managed to break through the defenses either at sea or on land-the border sign on the Rybachy Peninsula was the only sign on the entire western border of the USSR that remained under the control of Soviet troops all the time. Monument to the Defenders of the Rybachy Peninsula. On Rybachye Nikolai Bukin first served as an artilleryman,and then began to work in the divisional newspaper "Severomorets"-proofreader,then correspondent and, finally, editor. His first poems were published in 1941. Bukin wrote poems about infantrymen, he was called an "artillery poet", but most of all he was inspired by maritime romance-he loved to meet withsailors-boatmen, whose attitude to ships and the sea always worried him. In 1942 (according to other sources-in 1943) after one of these meetings, he had the lines of the poem "Do not live without the sea", which later became the words of the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains". The poem "I cannot live without the sea" was published in the newspaper of the Northern Fleet "Krasnoflotets", published in Murmansk, and after a while Bukin heard a song with his words on the radio. The first version of the music was written by Vadim Kochetov. The song was recommended by the political department of the fleet "for performance and popularization during the Red Fleet radio hour". In the same newspaper "Krasnoflotets" saw a poem by Bukin and composer Yevgeny Zharkovsky, who was sent to the political department of the Northern Fleet on a business trip for creative work. In his memoirs, he wrote: "The poems made a strong impression on me. The mood of poetic lines that expressively conveyed the feelings of people leaving their native shores in the fierce Barents Sea for a deadly battle with the enemy, the song character of the poem - all this helped me to write music in one breath...". Created by Evgeny Zharkovsky and Nikolai Bukin, the song, already under its current name "Farewell, Rocky Mountains", was published in the newspapers of not only the Northern, but also the Baltic Fleet. Zharkovsky characterized this song as "the most popular and tenacious" of activities written by him during a business trip to the Northern Fleet. The song gained national fame after it was broadcast on the All-Union Radio performed by Vladimir Bunchchikov and Peter Kirichek. In some post-war publications, the words "But enough for the battle of fire" were replaced by "I am going to meet the enemies"-the editors argued this replacement by the fact that in the new political situation the call for kindling fire was inappropriate. Nevertheless, in later publications, the author's version of this line was returned. Sometimes the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" is called the unofficial anthem of the Murmansk region. Its melody regularly sounds at a number of memorable places-a monument in honor of the sailors of the North Sea (Rybachy Peninsula), a monument to the defenders of the Soviet Arctic (Severomorsk)and a monument to merchant navy sailors who died during the war in the North (Murmansk). A fragment of the chorus of the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" is used in the instrumental introduction of the popular song "Road" by the rock band "Lube"(author-Igor Matvienko). In addition, in the last melodic phrase of the song "Road" there is a stylistic variation of the fragment of the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains", in which the original three-four"waltz" metric is replaced by a dicotyledonous. Admiral Vladimir Alekseev,who commanded during the war a division of the brigade of torpedo boats of the Northern Fleet, wrote about the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains": "We, the boatmen, were firmly convinced that the song was dedicated to us. On the hikes they sang their favorite song. We liked both her intimate melody and the text, in which a deep, authentic content is expressed romantically...". Admiral Arseny Golovko, who commanded the Northern Fleet throughout the war, recalled: "Many times I, like everyone in the Navy, heard the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" exciting every sailor, dedicated to the North Seamen, and each time it resonated again and again in my heart. Especially in difficult moments".
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukin (December 19, 1916, Dubrovo village, Yelovsky District, Perm Oblast-December 4, 1996, Moscow)was a Russian poet, writer, author of the words of the famous song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains". His first poems were published in 1941. Then they constantly appeared in the army and navy press, in the almanacs "Prikamye", "Leningrad Almanac", in repertory collections, songbooks, in the magazines "Neva","Smena", "Soviet Warrior", "Soviet Sailor", as well as in the newspapers "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Soviet Culture", "Soviet Fleet". In the autumn of 1942, he was preparing to write another essay for a military newspaper, but suddenly poems were formed. He called the poem "I cannot live without the sea" and sent it to the editorial office of the newspaper "Krasnoflotets", which was located in the main base of the Northern Fleet in Polyarny. The letter addressed to the editor, got to the writers working there-Nikolai Panov and Nikolai Flerov. The poem was immediately printed. To the poem he liked, the composer V. Kochetov wrote music. And after some time in 1944, the same publication of the poem caught the eye of another composer-Yevgeny Zharkovsky,and he composed his music, calling the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains...", and handed over to the performers. " Once N. Bukin, turning on the radio, heard a song on his words and was very surprised. Only when the North Sea Song and Dance Ensemble, who performed this song, came to Rybachy, his curiosity was satisfied, "writes Marina Nizhegorodova on the website of the City Museum of History and Local Lore of the Polyarny Murmansk Region. And so the son of the poet recalls: "The artistic director Boris Bogolepov said that the author of the music for his father's poems is an officer Yevgeny Zharkovsky, who also fought in the ranks of the North Seamen. His father met him at the very end of the war, they became good friends, then wrote more than one song, but already in Moscow." "The mood of poetic lines," recalls People's Artist of the RSFSR E. Zharkovsky,"which expressively conveyed the feelings of people leaving their native shores in the fierce Barents Sea for a deadly battle with enemies, the very songful nature of the poem - all this helped me to write music with a single spirit." It was for the scouts of the detachment leonov V. N. in the North appeared the famous song "Farewell, rocky mountains" on the poems of the poet Bukin N. In the days of the fortieth anniversary of the Red Banner Northern Fleet in Severomorsk, a majestic monument to the legendary defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War was opened. Every 30 minutes in the mechanical recording sound the first beats of the song of the North Seamen: "Farewell, rocky mountains." In 1945, Nikolai Bukin was appointed director of secondary school No. 1 in Polyarny. Three years later, he received an offer to go to work in the naval magazine "Soviet Sailor" in Moscow. N. Bukin is the author of several poetry and prose collections, a member of the Union of Writers. But the greatest fame brought him the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains". In 2009, the history of the song's creation formed the basis of the series "Murmansk" from the 13-episode documentary and fiction series "Hero Cities", filmed by the Belarusian television company ONT. The film premiered on May 9, 2010.
FAREWELL, ROCKY MOUNTAINS! The proposed four essays on the history of military songs close the heading prepared for the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory, which was led by Vasily Sergeevich Tsitsankin, Candidate of Historical Sciences. When writing these materials, the author turned to the books of A.E. Lukovnikov "Fellow Soldiers", L. Oshanina "Songs of different years", V. Viktorov "Portraits of Soviet composers. Boris Terentiev”, to the articles by Yu.E. Biryukov "Who lit the "Spark"?", to the Internet site of the local history museum of the city of Polyarny, Murmansk region and some other publicly available sources. FAREWELL, ROCKY MOUNTAINS! 35 years after the Great Victory, the world was shocked by Roman Karmen's film epic "The Great Patriotic War". The fifth film of the epic is called "War in the Arctic". His musical emblem, leitmotif was the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains." This film contains unique footage, apparently depicting one of the first performances of the song. Summer 1944. Sailors with musical instruments get out of a military boat, dancing on the waves, onto a rocky shore - a sailor ensemble is in a hurry to a concert. And then the sailors sing "Goodbye Rocky Mountains." They sing life-affirming, rejoicing at a short respite between trips...The author of the words of this song, the poet Nikolai Ivanovich Bukin, was born in 1916 far from the sea, rocks and granites - in the village of Dubrovo, Perm Region. Before the war, in 1940, he graduated with honors from the Perm Pedagogical Institute and was drafted into the army. The military commissar of the recruiting commission in Perm jokingly asked a short, thin young conscript with a clear underweight (47 kilograms) where the “hero” wants to serve - in the infantry-mother or in the navy-father? And, without waiting for an answer, he assigned him to the fleet, paying attention to the tattoo on the guy’s arm: a sea anchor was gouged out there. The recruits were brought to the Rybachy Peninsula, to the Musta-Tunturi mountains in Murmansk. So N. Bukin became a sailor of the artillery crew of the regiment of marines. Having a higher education, he attracted the attention of the political department of the garrison, which concentrated about 10,000 military personnel. Nikolai was obliged to participate in the release of the large-circulation newspaper Severomorets. The glory of the poet from the Rybachy Peninsula came to him after the very first poems published in 1941. Then Bukin's poems regularly appeared in the army and navy press, in almanacs and song books. Just like the poet N. Bukin, the musical author of the song “Farewell, Rocky Mountains” Yevgeny Emmanuilovich Zharkovsky was born far from the seas and granites. His homeland is Kiev. There, in 1927, he graduated from a musical college and two semesters of the Music and Drama Institute, then moved to Leningrad and became a student at the Leningrad Conservatory. He successfully combined his studies with military patronage work. As part of concert groups, Zharkovsky often gave concerts in Kronstadt, on the ships of the Baltic Fleet. A new period in Yevgeny's life began in 1936, when he moved from Leningrad to Moscow and began working at the Central House of the Red Army, on the radio, at Moscow concert venues, writing songs with the poet Vinnikov. An unforgettable experience for a composer who fell in love with the sea, left a combat training campaign on the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet - the legendary battleship "Paris Commune". A few days after the start of the war, volunteer E. Zharkovsky goes to his destination - to the Northern Fleet, to the military town of Polyarny. Throughout the war, he led the sailor's jazz band, wrote songs, orchestrated, rehearsed. In the Northern Fleet, Yevgeny Zharkovsky wrote about a hundred songs that can be called a chronicle of military events. Many of them remained "one-day" ones, but some were destined for a long and happy life. which can be called a chronicle of military events. Many of them remained "one-day" ones, but some were destined for a long and happy life. which can be called a chronicle of military events. Many of them remained "one-day" ones, but some were destined for a long and happy life...The poet Nikolai Bukin spent from the first to the last day of the Great Patriotic War on the Rybachy Peninsula, in parts of the Marine Corps. At first he was an ordinary artilleryman, then a political worker, then a correspondent, head of Rybachy's printing house, and by the end of the war - editor of a naval newspaper. The theme of Bukin's poetry has always been the same - the mountains, the sea and the Rybachy Peninsula, which he defended in fierce battles with the Nazis, receiving the Order of the Red Star and two medals "For Military Merit". In the autumn of 1942, having visited the boatmen, based in a small bay near the isthmus between the islands of Rybachy and Sredny, front-line correspondent Bukin wholeheartedly imbued with a meeting with sailors preparing for a military campaign. At first, he planned to write an essay. But already on the way to the editorial office, lines spontaneously arose in my thoughts that fit into the poetic rhythm. In one day, poems were written and they were called “I can’t live without the sea.” The first words that were a refrain were these: “I know I can’t live without the sea, / As the sea is dead without me ...”(Subsequently, the poet explained the content of his poem as follows: “Is it possible to hide on the strict and weather-beaten faces of sailors the joy that illuminates them every time they return to their native shores with victory?! .. After all, the sailors are the first to meet the rocky mountains of Rybachy! the island is already visible - that means they are already at home! ”That is why the poems could not do without mentioning the name of this peninsula.( The frontal triangle with new poems was sent by the poet to the editorial office of the Krasnoflotets newspaper, which was located in Polyarny. The newspaper staff liked the poem very much, and it was immediately printed. The poems attracted the attention of several composers, including E. Zharkovsky, who wrote music for them in 1944. At the same time, the first performance of Bukin-Zharkovsky's song took place: it sounded on April 30, 1944 in the program of the Far Eastern Navy Ensemble of the Northern Fleet, and the soloists of the ensemble Chernobylsky and Fedorov sang it. This is how the song appeared, which received the well-known name “Farewell, Rocky Mountains ...” Later, at numerous creative meetings, the composer said: “For a long time I wanted to write about the defenders of Rybachy, surrounded on three sides by the Barents Sea, and on the fourth by the Germans. The mood of the poetic lines that conveyed the feelings of people leaving their native shores for a deadly fight with enemies, the very songlike nature of the poem - all this helped me to write music with one spirit. And after the performance of "Rocky Mountains" on the radio by famous singers V. Bunchikov and P. Kirichek, accompanied by the Song and Dance Ensemble. A. Alexandrov, the song gained immense popularity and sounded throughout the country. Author: Tsitsankin Vasily Sergeevich.
The history of one song. "Goodbye Rocky Mountains". Rybachy Peninsula. "Goodbye Rocky Mountains..." The only place on the Soviet-German front where the Germans failed to cross the state border. The history of one song. "Goodbye Rocky Mountains" The history of the creation of the song "Goodbye Rocky Mountains". When in December 1916 a baby was born in a poor peasant family in the village of Dubrovo, Elovsky district, Perm region, the night was formidable, and she said: “Kolenka will have a stormy life.” And so it happened...After graduating from school, Nikolai continued his studies at the Sarapul Agricultural College. He worked a little as a rural teacher and began studying at the Perm Pedagogical Institute. At youth parties, they were always waiting for him. He was a cheerful person, danced "gypsy", played the mandolin, guitar and balalaika. Later he mastered the button accordion. Having passed the state exams with excellent marks at the pedagogical institute, Nikolai went home to his mother in the village of Dubrovo for two days. Ancestors chose a good place to live: on the Kama, with a forest and a meadow. There are important snowdrifts, springs are cold, and next to them are baths embroidered with moss. People in the village lived vociferously, they sang songs in such a way that the putty on the windows burst. They especially voted on Easter, when they went around the village, they called and praised. The guy wanted to teach literature, but the preparations for the war roughly turned his life in a different direction. The recruits were put on a train and taken to the Rybachy Peninsula. To Murmansk mountains Musta-Tunturi. So Bukin changed the rural stream Dubok to Barentsevo. Later he would write the following lines: One hundred thanks to you, mother, that I was not born in a shirt, but in a vest. Everything was unusual in those sparsely populated lands for a person who grew up in a forest outskirt: a gray sky, the day is rapidly darkening, like a cut on a boletus, clouds are moving low, a snow storm is roaring. The place is wilder than wild, but Bukin spent the whole war on it. At first, he was an ordinary artilleryman, then he changed the theodolite and topography to “petites” and “cliches”, becoming a proofreader for the divisional newspaper “Severomorets”. The war forced him to take an accelerated course in newspaper science, and the soldier became a correspondent, and by the end of the war, the editor of this publication. And there were poems all the time. He had one theme - the mountains and the sea. And he also learned to write by the sea: he sent line after line, as water sends wave after wave. On that piece of land, sailors and Red Army soldiers steadfastly held the line: throughout our western border of 4.5 thousand kilometers, one border sign remained uncaptured - on Rybachy. The Germans for four years were not able to take the peninsula in order to break through to Murmansk. Not everyone knows that the sailors nicknamed this legendary piece of land the "granite battleship". In his homeland, Bukin knew the song of herbs well, now he listens to the song of the waves and transfers it to paper. Poems about maritime romance were obtained, and fellow soldiers began to call him an "artillery poet." He also wrote about infantrymen, but he especially liked to visit boatmen. Their affinity with the ship and the sea has always moved me to tears. One day, the composer Konstantin Listov and the poet Vasily Lebedev-Kumach appeared on Rybachy. It was then that the fighter shook their big and kind hands for the first time, participated in a discussion about the song business. A fleeting meeting, a fleeting conversation, but they gave Nikolai a lot to understand this genre. In 1942, on one of his visits to boat boats, while looking at the boundless water distance, Bukin's lines were born: I know that I cannot live without the sea, As the sea is dead without me. And noticing with what jubilation the sailors returned from the voyage, he added: Although the waves groan and cry, And splash on board the ship, But Rybachy will joyfully meet the heroesHe found images and words freely. He connected mountains and waves, statics and dynamics. Mountains - inviolability, the sea - perpetual motion. He placed in poetry the beating of life, its ebb and flow, finished it, folded the paper into a triangle and, with an opportunity, sent it to Murmansk, to the newspaper of the Northern Fleet Krasnoflotets. After some time, a fresh issue came to the peninsula, and in it Bukin's poems and a handwritten postscript to write more. Once, turning on the radio, Bukin heard a song with native words. Blimey! How did it happen, how did it happen?! He took the button accordion and repeated, repeated the tune. That day, tied with a red bow, Colonel Bukin remembered for the rest of his life. The music for these poems was first written by V. Kochetov, and the political administration of the fleet recommended the song to the All-Union Radio Committee for performance and popularization "during the period of the Red Navy radio hour. "The amateur poet glorified the Arctic, but the Arctic Circle also glorified the poet. At the call of the Motherland, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukin fought and worked, at the call of his heart he wrote his poems “Oh you, the sea”, “O rocks, granite rocks”, which were set to music and became mental ammunition for the front-line soldiers, a long-range projectile. It was not for nothing that Suvorov said that the song doubles, triples the army. Later, the music for Bukin's poems was written by another composer - E. Zharkovsky. And after V. Bunchikov and P. Kirichek performed it on the All-Union Radio, real popularity came to the song. After the war, Bukin lived in Moscow. In 1952, a book of poems and songs "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" was published here. In 1958, a collection of poems and songs "We went to the open sea" was published. It includes all the best that the poet has created. This is his creative report. Even in civil poems about a worker or a grain grower, one can feel the will and spirit of a sailor: “But if the storms break out again, there is a smell of gunpowder in the distance, the captains will leave the harvesters for warships” ... The book “Rybachy” was based on materials and records from shabby and yellowed from time his front-line notebooks, from essays published in the divisional newspaper Severomorets, in which, as he wrote in the preface to this book, he walked all the editorial steps - from proofreader to editor. He died in 1996 at the age of 80. Far from the seas and granites, the musical author of the song was born - the honored worker of arts of the RSFSR Evgeny Emmanuilovich Zharkovsky. His homeland is Kyiv. There, in 1927, he graduated from a musical college and two semesters of the Music and Drama Institute. Lysenko. After hearing from friends about the musical life of Leningrad, he moved there and became a student at the conservatory. He combined his studies with patronage work, often visited Kronstadt, on the ships of the Baltic Fleet, spoke to crews, helped amateur artists prepare their repertoire. He composes a one-act opera, rhapsodies, instrumental concertos, but time itself brought song to the forefront of art. And Zharkovsky writes the first two miniatures to the verses of Nikolai Aseev, which in 1933 received prizes at the song contest of the Leningrad city committee of the Komsomol. After the conservatory, Yevgeny, one after another, has songs about the Soviet village and even lyrical ditties, but the military theme is far from letting go, and he composes “The Ballad of the Unknown Sailor”. Many songs were written especially for Leonid Utyosov. In 1941, Zharkovsky voluntarily went to the front and became a Severomorian. He was settled in Polyarny in a small icy room, where they pushed a beat-up piano with difficulty. There were songs about the destroyer "Thundering", about the submarine "Malyutka". At that time, he gave business cards-songs to many ships.Once in 1942, the postman brought the newspaper "Krasnoflotets". From the abundance of front-line news, the composer's trained eye immediately snatched out rhymes about the military campaign of sailors behind enemy lines. He read the verse and felt that a melody curled up in it in a tight ball. But how to extract it, how to straighten it? Right in his greatcoat, Zharkovsky sat down at the piano and began to reread the lines. And then it dawned on him: yes, this is a rhymed diary, a personal record of a sailor's life. The unknown poet arranged the words confidently, like things in his cockpit. There must be a guitar in there somewhere. Yes, here she is, in the hands of the minion of the crew. Fearing to wake those who are on watch, he muffled, swaying to the beat of the ship’s vibrations, brings out in a slow waltz: “My ship is rocked elastically by a steep sea wave ...” And the comrades sing along to the singer: “Raise and throw again. She is in the boiling abyss.” But can a waltz be masculine, with the smell of gunpowder? - the musician tormented himself with such a question. And he decided that he could: heroic times require heroic melodies. After the war, Zharkovsky wrote operettas for adults, cantatas and suites for the younger generation. But the song source does not grow thin. In 1947, a song appeared on the verses of an old acquaintance N. Bukin “When Hurricanes Rage”, then the cheerful “Three Rows” (text by Yakov Shvedov). The song "Killer Swallow" to the words of Osip Kolychev gained great popularity. His famous “Zhenka” to original three-line verses with the same rhyme by Konstantin Vanshenkin, which Lyudmila Zykina took into her repertoire, should be considered a real creative success. And especially for Claudia Shulzhenko, he created the brilliant humoresque “A Little About Myself” (“Whenever I lose my years ...”) to the words of Dmitry Sedykh. The works of Yevgeny Zharkovsky - good and different - can be listed for a long time. But memory brings us back to his legendary "Farewell Rocky Mountains!" The song is always trinity. In addition to a talented poet and composer, she requires the same gifted performer. And this one was sung by many great voices: Kibkalo, Petrov, Ots, Kondratyuk, N. Bunchikov, Yuri Gulyaev, Evgeny Nesterenko, Song and dance ensemble of the Pacific Fleet. Singing Alexander Stolyarov naval ensembles and amateur groups Admiral Arseniy Golovko knew the song by heart and recalls it in the book "Together with the Fleet". And the writer Yulian Semenov called his story like this: “Farewell, rocky mountains!”. After the war, some publishing houses forced Bukin to remake the lines “But there is enough fire for the battle” and “I am going to meet the enemies”, explaining that in peacetime one must forget “about fire battles”. It turns out that the printers looked at the song as a political poster, and therefore the author's watercolor was replaced with a primer. However, those ersatz lines did not last long, after a while the usual phrases returned to their place. The Soviet “Robertino Loretti” Seryozha Paramonov sang selflessly about the rocky mountains. Listening to him, Zharkovsky - a tall man under two meters - could not hold back his tears. To hide them, he leaned his chest on a cane and bowed his head low. From the TV program "Composers at the piano. Evgeny Zharkovsky". Words - N. Bukin. I will add that the song about the mountains - and few people know about it - is imprinted in the very material on which it was born - in granite. Every half an hour over the Kola Bay, at the monument to the Unknown Sailor, her melody sounds. With pleasure, this song is also performed by modern performers. Tatyana Bulanova Composer, author of the legendary song "Farewell Rocky Mountains". Other famous songs: "Black Sea", "Killer Swallow", "Don't Light a Fire", "Song of the 'Thunderer'", "Song of Ordinary People", etc. In total, he is the author of more than 300 songs, as well as operas, several operettas, cantatas , pieces for a brass band, the vocal cycle of songs "Songs of Humanity", music for theater and cinema, songs for children. Wrote a book of memoirs "And the muses were not silent!". People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981).E.E. died. Zharkovsky on February 18, 1985, was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo cemetery (New Territory, 10 files). And here is another unique video, which shows the campaign of the aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" and the accompanying destroyer destroyer pr. 956 "Admiral Ushakov", which got the brunt of the 8-point storm. Roll on board reached 50 degrees ...The material of the article by Ivan Petrusev from the Arkhangelsk regional newspaper was partially used.
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Songs of Victory. "Goodbye Rocky Mountains". The author of the words - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukin (1916 - 1966) in the spring of 1940 was called up for military service and assigned to the fleet - to the Murmansk Musta-Tunturi mountains on the Rybachy Peninsula, where he spent the entire war. On that piece of land, sailors and Red Army soldiers steadfastly held the line: throughout the entire western border of the Soviet Union, 4.5 thousand kilometers, only one border sign remained uncaptured - on Rybachy. The Germans for four years were not able to take the peninsula in order to break through to Murmansk. The sailors nicknamed this legendary piece of land the "granite battleship". On Rybachy, Nikolai Bukin first served as a marine, then as an artilleryman, in 1941 he was appointed political instructor of the battery of the 104th artillery regiment, and then began working in the divisional newspaper Severomorets as a proofreader, correspondent and, finally, editor. His first poems were published in 1941. Bukin wrote poems about infantrymen, he was called an "artillery poet", but most of all he was inspired by sea romance - he loved to meet boat sailors, whose attitude to ships and the sea always worried him. In 1942 (according to other sources - in 1943), after one of these meetings, he had the lines of the poem “I can’t live without the sea”, which later became the words of the song “Farewell, Rocky Mountains”. After the war, he worked as a director of a school in the city of Polyarny, remaining a sailor, and in the magazine "Military Sailor". Captain 1st rank. He was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and the Red Star, medals "For Military Merit", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", and commemorative medals. The author of the music is Evgeny Emmanuilovich Zharkovsky (1906 - 1985) - Soviet composer, People's Artist of the RSFSR. In the pre-war years, he combined his musical education with the leadership of the Song Ensemble of the Leningrad House of the Red Army. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." In 1942, Bukin's lines were born: I know I can't live without the sea Like the sea is dead without me. The poem “I can’t live without the sea” was published in the newspaper of the Northern Fleet “Krasnoflotets”, published in Murmansk, and after a while Bukin heard the song with his own words on the radio. The music for the resulting poems was first written by Vadim Nikolaevich Kochetov (1898 - 1951) - during the Great Patriotic War he worked as a composer in parts of the Soviet Army and Navy. The political administration of the fleet recommended the song to the All-Union Radio Committee for performance and popularization "during the period of the Red Navy radio hour." In the same newspaper Krasnoflotets saw a poem by Bukin and the composer Zharkovsky, who was sent to the political department of the Northern Fleet on a business trip for creative work. In his memoirs, he wrote: “The poems made a strong impression on me ... The mood of the poetic lines, which expressively conveyed the feelings of people leaving their native shores for the ferocious Barents Sea for a mortal battle with the enemy, the songlike nature of the poem - all this helped me to write in one breath music…” And after the performance of this version on the All-Union Radio, real popularity came to the song. From the story of the singer Vladimir Bunchikov. ... In 1944, two men in naval uniform came to my apartment on Metrostroevskaya Street (now Ostozhenka). They introduced themselves - Boris Terentiev and Evgeny Zharkovsky. two composers. They brought me their new songs: Terentiev - "The Song of the Pea Jacket", Zharkovsky - "Farewell, Rocky Mountains." I immediately liked these songs, I instantly learned them and began to sing on the radio. "The Song of the Pea Coat" was recorded on a record in 1947, but with "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" it turned out worse. The state repertoire committee did not give permission to record this song on a record. The first was Pyotr Tikhonovich Kirichek (1902 - 1968) (bass-baritone), who did this in early 1945. But in concerts, this song enjoyed great love among listeners, especially many letters came from sailors. And so, in order to somehow capture the song for history, Bunchikov decided to record it in 1951 in the studio of the Leningrad artel "Plastmass" for a minion-sized record. The artel authorities went to meet the singer, he himself decided which repertoire to record. And he recorded there what he officially could not record in Moscow. He was accompanied by the studio orchestra, conducted by Yefim Pavlovich Zablotsky. The diameter of the plates of the artel "Plastmass" did not allow such a wonderful song to fit in at a normal pace. Of the two evils - to shorten the text and orchestral losses or to speed up the tempo, they chose the second. The song was squeezed into two and a half minutes, losing performance. Upon returning to Moscow, Bunchikov was summoned to the All-Union Radio Committee and asked: “Who gave you permission to record records without the knowledge of the leadership of the VRK?” For the self-will shown, Bunchikov was recommended not to record anywhere else, except in departmental studios. More "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" he did not record. The only recording was made by Bunchikov's relatives on a radio broadcast during Bunchikov's "live" performance on the radio on May 8, 1970 in a radio concert dedicated to Victory Day. He was accompanied by pianist Evgenia Mamaeva ...Sometimes the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" is called the unofficial anthem of the Murmansk region. Its melody is regularly heard at a number of memorable places - a monument in honor of the sailors of the North Sea (Rybachy Peninsula), a monument to the defenders of the Soviet Arctic (Severomorsk) and a monument to the sailors of the merchant fleet who died during the war years in the North (Murmansk). Source: Kalabukhov, V. Songs of the Roads of War. Farewell, rocky mountains / V. Kalabukhov // Proza.ru [Electronic resource]. – Access mode: https://proza.ru/2020/03/01/1464 Author: Marina Urusova at 11:00 Send by email Write about it in the blog Post to Twitter Publish to Facebook Share on Pinterest Labels: Great Patriotic War, art.
https://www.kolamap.ru/library/doc/kegor.htm///The story of the song "Farewell to the Rocky Mountains"///In the spring of 1940, a short and tentative student with a "mutton weight" - 47 kilograms - appeared before the conscription commission of the city of Perm. "Nikolai Bukin," he said. - Where do you want to serve, hero? In the infantry-mother or in the navy-father? The military man asked him sympathetically. But, looking at the left hand of the recruit, where, according to the fashion of the time, the anchor was gouged out, he did not wait for an answer: - So, in the Navy!..From the military recruitment office, the satisfied recruit came out with a different gait, swaying a little. And I went straight to the store for my vest. WHEN our hero was born, the night was terrible, and the mother said: "Kolenka will have a turbulent life." And that's what happened...After graduating from school, Nikolai continued his studies at the Sarapul Agricultural College. He worked a little as a village teacher and began to study at the Perm Pedagogical Institute. At youth parties, he was always expected. He was a cheerful man, dancing "gypsy", playing the mandolin, guitar and balalaika. Later he mastered the bayan. Having passed the state exams with "excellent" in the pedagogical institute, Nikolai went home to his mother in the village of Dubrovo for two days. A good place to live was chosen by the ancestors: on the Kama, with a forest and a meadow. Snowdrifts are important there, the keys are cold, and near them there are baths embroidered with moss. People in the village lived vocally, songs were sung so that the putty on the glass burst. They especially voted on Easter, when they went around the village, praised and glorified Christ. The guy wanted to teach literature, but the preparation for the war roughly turned his life in a different direction. The recruits were put in a train and taken to the Rybachy Peninsula. To the Murmansk mountains of Musta Tunturi. So Bukin changed the rural stream Dubok to the Barents Sea. He would later write these lines: Thank you one hundred, Mom, for not being born in a shirt, but in a vest. EVERYTHING was unusual in those sparsely populated lands for a person who grew up in a forest fence: a gray sky, the day is rapidly darkening, like a cut on a podosinovik, low clouds are walking, a snow storm is roaring. The place is wilder than wild, but Bukin spent the whole war on it. At first he was an ordinary artilleryman, then he changed the theodolite and topography to "petites" and "clichés", becoming a proofreader of the divisional newspaper "Severomorets". The war forced him to take a crash course in newspaper sciences, and the soldier became a correspondent, and by the end of the war the editor of this publication. And there were poems around all the time. He had one theme - the mountains and the sea. And he also learned to write by the sea: he sent line after line, as the waters send wave after wave. On that piece of land, sailors and Red Army soldiers steadfastly held the defense: along the entire western border of 4.5 thousand kilometers, one border sign remained uncaptured - on Rybachye. For four years, the Germans could not take the peninsula to break through to Murmansk. Not everyone knows that sailors nicknamed this legendary patch of land "granite battleship". In his homeland, Bukin knew the song of herbs well, but now he listens to the song of the waves and transfers it to paper. Poems about maritime romance were obtained, and fellow soldiers began to call him the "artillery poet". He also wrote about infantrymen, but he especially liked to visit the boatmen. Their closeness to the ship and the sea always moved to tears. ONCE upon a time, composer Konstantin Listov and poet Vasily Lebedev-Kumach appeared on Rybachye. That's when the fighter for the first time shook their big and kind hands, participated in a discussion about the song business. A fleeting meeting, a fleeting conversation, but they gave Nicholas a lot to understand this genre. In 1942, on one of the visits to the boatmen, when looking at the boundless water distance, Bukin had the following lines: I know I can't live without the sea, As the sea is dead without me. And noticing with what jubilation the sailors return from the voyage, he added: Though the waves moan and cry, And splash on board the ship, But joyfully meet the heroes of Rybachy ...He found images and words freely. He combined mountains and waves, statics and dynamics. Mountains - inviolability, the sea - eternal movement. He placed in his poems the beat of life, its ebb and flow, finished, folded the paper in a triangle and sent it to Murmansk, to the newspaper of the Northern Fleet "Krasnoflotets". After some time, a fresh issue came to the peninsula, and in it The Poems of Bukin and the inscription by hand to write more. One day, turning on the radio, Bukin heard a song with native words. Oh, my! How did that happen?! He took the accordion and repeated, repeated the play. That day, tied with a red bow, Colonel Bukin remembered for the rest of his life. The music for these poems was first written by V. Kochetov, and the political department of the fleet recommended the song to the All-Union Radio Committee for performance and popularization "during the Red Fleet radio clock". The amateur poet glorified the Arctic, but the Arctic Circle also glorified the poet. At the call of the Motherland, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukin fought and worked, at the call of his heart he wrote his poems "Oh you, the sea", "O rocks, granite rocks", which are set to music and became for the front-line soldiers a soulful ammunition, a long-range shell. No wonder Suvorov said that the song doubles, triples the army. Later, music for Bukin's poems was written by another composer - E. Zharkovsky. And after V. Bunchikov and P. Kirichek performed it on the All-Union Radio, real popularity came to the song. Far from the seas and granites, the musical author of the song was born - Honored Artist of the RSFSR Evgeny Emmanuilovich Zharkovsky. His homeland is Kyiv. There in 1927 he graduated from the Music College and two semesters of the Lysenko Music and Drama Institute. After hearing from friends about the musical life of Leningrad, he moved there and became a student at the Conservatory. He combined his studies with patronage work, often visited Kronstadt, on the ships of the Baltic Fleet, performed in front of crews, helped amateur artists prepare a repertoire. He composed one-act operas, rhapsodies, instrumental concertos, but time itself brought song to the forefront of art. And Zharkovsky wrote the first two miniatures on the poems of Nikolai Aseev, which in 1933 received prizes at the song contest of the Leningrad city committee of the Komsomol. After the conservatory, Evgeny one after another has songs about the Soviet village and even lyrical ditties, but the military theme does not let go, and he composes "The Ballad of the Unknown Sailor". Many songs were written especially for Leonid Utesov. In 1941, Zharkovsky voluntarily went to the front and became a North Seaman. He was settled in Polyarny in a small ice room, where a piano that had seen the species was hardly pushed. There were songs about the destroyer "Thundering", about the submarine "Baby". He gave many ships then visiting cards-songs. Once in 1942, a postman brought the newspaper "Krasnoflotets". From the abundance of front-line news, the composer's trained eye immediately snatched rhymes about the sailors' military campaign behind enemy lines. He read the verse and felt a tight melody curl up in it. But how to extract it, how to straighten it? Right in the overcoat, Zharkovsky sat down at the piano and began to re-read the lines. And then it dawned on him: yes, this is a rhyming diary, a personal entry about the sailor's life. The unknown poet arranged the words confidently, like things in his cubicle. There must be a guitar somewhere. Yes, here it is, in the hands of the pampered crew. Fearing to wake up those who are on watch, he muffled, swaying in time with the oscillations of the ship, leads with a slow waltz: "My ship is elastically rocked by a steep sea wave ..." And the comrades sing along to the singer: «She lifts up and throws it again Into the boiling abyss." But can a waltz be masculine, with the smell of gunpowder? - the musician tormented himself with such a question. And he decided that he could: heroic time requires heroic melodies. After the war, Zharkovsky wrote operettas for adults, cantatas and suites for the younger generation. But the song source doesn't get boring either. In 1947, a song appeared on the poems of an old acquaintance N. Bukin "When hurricanes rage", then a cheerful "Three Row" (text by Yakov Shvedov). The song "Swallow-killer whale" to the words of Osip Kolychev became very popular. A real creative success should be considered his famous "Eugene" for the original three-verses with the same rhyme by Konstantin Vanshenkin, which Lyudmila Zykina took into her repertoire. And especially for Claudia Shulzhenko, he created a brilliant humor "A little about myself" ("When to throw me a year ...") to the words of Dmitry Sedykh. The works of Evgeny Zharkovsky - good and different - can be listed for a long time. But the memory brings us back to his legendary "Goodbye Rocky Mountains!" the song is always triune. In addition to the talented poet and composer, it requires the same gifted performer. And this one was sung by many big voices: Kibkalo, Petrov, Ots, Kondratyuk, naval ensembles and amateur groups. And we sang with them. Admiral Arseny Golovko knew the song by heart and recalls it in the book "Together with the Fleet". And the writer Julian Semenov called his story: "Farewell, rocky mountains!". AFTER the war, some publishers forced Bukin to rework the lines "But enough for the battle of fire" and "I am going to meet the enemies", explaining that in peacetime it is necessary to forget "about fire fights". It turns out that the printers looked at the song as a political poster, so the author's watercolor was replaced with a primer. However, those lines-ersatz did not live long, after a while the usual phrases returned to their place. Selflessly sang about the rocky mountains Soviet "Robertino Loretti" Seryozha Paramonov. Listening to him, Zharkovsky - a tall man under two meters - could not hold back tears. To hide them, he rested his chest on the cane and bowed his head low. I will add that the song about the mountains - and few people know about it - is captured in the very material on whichit was born - in granite. Every half hour over the Kola Bay, at the monument to the Unknown Sailor, her melody sounds.///Ivan PETRUSEV.///"Pravda Severa", Arkhangelsk regional newspaper, 07/02/2007.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180720164742/http://www.agidel.ru/?param1=1915&tab=16///http://www.agidel.ru/?param1=1915&tab=16///MEMORY///"Goodbye Rocky Mountains..."///About the history of the famous song, about other episodes of the life of its author - the poet Nikolai Bukin tells his son and our countryman Igor Bukin/// "Goodbye Rocky Mountains! The Fatherland calls for a feat. We went out to the open sea, on a harsh and long hike..." The lyrics of this song are known to many, especially people of the older generation. They still cause such a storm of emotions in the soul that, as they say, goosebumps run through the skin. But very few people know the author of these lines - Nikolai Bukin, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a poet, a journalist and just a citizen, a patriot of his Motherland, attributing the words of the song to the people. But his heirs are alive, and they want the memory of their loved one not to go into oblivion...///As most often happens, I accidentally learned that the poet's son, now living in Yekaterinburg, Igor Nikolaevich Bukin, is our countryman from the ancient village of Nikolo-Berezovka, Krasnokamsky District. He came here more than once for anniversary meetings with his classmates. Recently, I finally got to know him. He is in his seventies, above average height, fit, very similar to his father from the photos. And also, as he says, rhymes the lines in between. True, he never set out to publish a collection, although his poems are appreciated by listeners, and classmates memorized it by heart. When at meetings he reads one of the first, dedicated to nikolo-Berezovskaya secondary school, where there are lines: "Hello, school! Sorry for crying on the threshold of my youth," the crowd can't help but cry either. The author himself believes that they are not as perfect as the works of his father, most of which he quotes from memory.///Life without embellishment - Igor Nikolaevich, remind our readers of the biography of your father.///- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukin was born in December 1916 in a poor peasant family in the village of Dubrovo, Yelovsky District, Perm Oblast. "Where the forest is noisy with spruce, and from the cities in the distance there is my village dubrovo and the village of Kobeli," my father wrote in one of his poems. He was in school. After graduating from the Sarapul Agricultural College, he worked for some time as a village teacher, and then studied again at the Perm Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature. In 1940, he was drafted into the Navy on a special set. In the Great Patriotic War, he served in the marine corps of the Northern Fleet on the Rybachy Peninsula, first as a private, then as an officer. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, two medals "For Military Merit" and others. His first poems were published in 1941. Then they constantly appeared in the army and navy press, in the almanacs "Prikamye", "Leningrad Almanac", in repertoire collections, songbooks, in the magazines "Neva", "Smena", "Soviet Warrior", "Soviet Sailor", as well as in the newspapers "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Soviet Culture", "Soviet Fleet". Some of the poems are set to music. The songs "Farewell, Rocky Mountains", "When Hurricanes Rage" (music by E. Zharkovsky), "When the Dawns Break Out", "Oh, It's Not in Vain That Girls Sing" (music by K. Listov), "Under the Northern Lights" (music by E. Slonov) and others became popular.
After the war, his father lived in Moscow. In 1952, a book of poems and songs "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" was published here. In 1958, a collection of poems and songs "We Went to the Open Sea" was published. It includes all the best that was created by the poet. This is his creative report. Even in civil poems about a worker or a grain grower, the will and spirit of a sailor are felt: "But if storms break out again, the smell of gunpowder in the distance, captains will come down from the combines to the warships"... The book "Rybachy" was based on materials and notes from his front-line notebooks, battered and yellowed by time, from essays published in the divisional newspaper "Severomorets", in which, as he wrote in the preface to this book, he walked all the editorial steps - from proofreader to editor. His father died in 1996 at the age of 80.///How did you end up in Nikolo-Berezovka, where, as far as I understood, your father had never been?///" My mother Tatyana Vasilyevna Novikova moved here with me after the war, closer to her parents, who lived nearby at that time - in the village of Kyrpy, Kaltasinsky district. By then, she had already separated from my father. He met another one there, in Murmansk. But when he found out about the remarriage of his first wife, he came to us, but, apparently, it was already impossible to "blind" the broken feelings. Although they maintained friendly relations and corresponded until the death of their mother. She died when she was not yet 45 years old, and was buried in Nikolo-Berezovka. The old-timers of the village still remember the military head of the propaganda and agitation department of the district party committee. After graduating from school, I went to study at the Sverdlovsk Forestry Institute, coming out of there as a design engineer, and until retirement in 1996 I worked at a defense plant. Now I am engaged in gardening and write poetry. While my mother was alive, I often came to Berezovka, which became my small homeland. I have special feelings for this village, for the Kama River.///How was your relationship with your father?///"He always greeted me very warmly and said that the fault of the divorce with my mother was the war. He helped me a lot while I was in college. On vacations and then, already working, on vacations, I constantly visited him, I was well received by my stepmother Zoya Ivanovna, and their joint children. Now we communicate less often, but my brother and sister are alive and well. Brother Sergei graduated from MGIMO, was an interpreter from Arabic for Brezhnev and Gorbachev, and his sister after graduating from medical school worked in a ministerial polyclinic. None of them do poetry. My father gave me all his collections, he felt that I could continue his work. Songs live on besides their authors///- Igor Nikolaevich, you promised to tell the stories of the creation of some songs of your father. - He himself told about this in detail in the book "Fisherman". Here's what my father wrote: "Songs, like people, have their biographies, their own stories. There's a story to the song "Goodbye Rocky Mountains." More than once I had to observe with what concentration and responsibility to the Motherland, with what a high sense of military duty the North Sea people went on combat campaigns, how closely they became close to the ship and to the sea, which became their home. So the first lines appeared: "I know, I cannot live without the sea, as the sea is dead without me." And is it possible to hide on the stern and weathered faces of seafarers the joy that illuminates them every time they return to their native shores with victory?! After all, the first to meet them are the rocky mountains of Rybachy! If it is already visible ahead, it means at home: although "the waves are moaning and crying, and splashing on the side of the ship, but Rybachy will happily meet - our birthplace. The front triangle with the poems written by the okaziya was sent to the Bolshaya Zemlya in the newspaper "Krasnoflotets". They were printed under the title "I cannot live without the sea" with the blessing of the writers Nikolai Panov and Nikolai Flerov, who worked in the front-line newspaper at that time. And one day my father turned on the editorial radio and unexpectedly heard a song with familiar words. But for a long time I could not find out who the author of the music was. This became clear only with the arrival of the Northern Fleet ensemble in the Fisherman's Group. Its artistic director Boris Bogolepov said that the author of the music on his father's poems is the officer Yevgeny Zharkovsky, who also fought in the ranks of the North Sea. His father met him at the very end of the war, they became firm friends, then wrote more than one song, but already in Moscow.///No less interesting is the fate of the song "Barents Sea", sometimes it is called by the first line: "Oh you are the sea, the sea", which was written in 1944. My father heard it after the war on one of the streets of the textile city of Ivanovo. He wondered how the working guys from this not at all sea city knew her, singing: "Do not be sad, friend, we will meet soon, I will return with victory from afar. Our Barents Sea is restless, but the heart of a sailor is calm"? It was never printed, although my father knew that shortly before the end of the war, these poems were set to music by officer Sergei Vesnovsky. Then he heard his poems in the movie "The Conquest of Chomolungma". They were sung by tired climbers, however, slightly changing the words: "mountains" stood in place of the "sea", and the rest is the old way, and the melody is the same. Then, a few years later, in the magazine "Smena" the father again saw a song with familiar words, but completely unfamiliar music, the author of which was indicated by B. Volodina. He searched for a long time and yet found the author of a familiar melody. It turned out that the former officer S. Vesnovsky in the city of Gorky taught children music and singing. His student wrote music, later - a letter to the poet Nikolai Bukin, after which the co-authors met.///Hero from the poem///— Igor Nikolaevich, your father communicated with many famous writers and poets. What memories were particularly dear to him?///- Most often he told about a meeting with Konstantin Simonov, whom he first saw in the most difficult time - in the winter of 1941, when guests from distant Moscow unexpectedly arrived at their "Granite Battleship", among whom was the already famous writer Simonov. They were introduced by battalion commissar Eremin in his dugout. As his father told and later wrote about this, he knew well Simonov's poem about Suvorov, poems about Khalkhin-Gol, but when he saw with his own eyes a slender, young officer with sleepers in buttonholes, with a hat of thick, black, like tar, hair, he was confused. Later, in his essays, Konstantin Mikhailovich recalled this meeting not without humor. The visit to the North Seas was fruitful for Simonov as well. It was then that he learned from Commissar Eremin about Lieutenant Ivan Loskutov, who called fire on himself in order to prevent the Nazis from capturing the high-rise. He served as the prototype of Lenka - the hero of the famous poem by Konstantin Simonov "Son of an Artilleryman".///Lieutenant Loskutov was my father's friend and commander at the time. Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Loskutov finished his army service in Vladivostok. He was a man of amazing modesty, and his father always complained that neither his colleagues nor he, as a friend, knew anything about this feat for a long time, and when he learned, they did not attach much importance to it. His father later wrote that "... apparently, in that distant war time, many things seemed to us ordinary, everyday. And only after decades, comprehending everything "ordinary" and "everyday", we begin to realize that these "everyday life" are a real feat. "///At Buckingham Palace///- Igor Nikolaevich, you mentioned that Nikolai Bukin visited with a detachment of warships of the Baltic Fleet in England, tell us in more detail, I think it is also interesting.///- In 1955, N. S. Khrushchev went, as sailors say, on the cruiser "Sverdlov" on a friendship visit to England. He was accompanied by a squadron of the Baltic Fleet. My father was one of the correspondents of the magazine "Soviet Sailor". He then wrote a series of articles and poems about this visit. In one of them, included in the collection, he played his surname Bukin with the name of the palace. It begins: "Not only do the legs ache, the hands ache, but there is no end to curiosity, and here I stood, Kolka Bukin, at Buckingham Palace ..." As a patriot of his homeland, he certainly could not help but say further: "... The land of Shakespeare is dear to me, but I do not want to change my Moscow apartment to a London palace. In which life is petrified, everything is the same as in the past centuries. That's just the queen racing on three Orel trotters."///What was, was...— How did the father and poet Bukin remain in your memories – the memories of a now mature person?///"In my memory, he has always remained an intelligent, ironic, kind, decent and very sympathetic person. I have a clipping from Literaturnaya Gazeta with Sergei Smirnov's parody of my father. It to some extent reflects his character: Vest, bushlat, hands in trousers, And vortices, like waves, scattered.///This is what I, Kolka Bukin, Daredevil and sailor looked like. A desperate Kolya sailed away, They wrote me off on the shore. But even on the eternal joke , I am a relative of guys and shanties. And there is no ill-fated captivity, For the sea is in every stanza. And I believe, friends, it's knee-deep, when I'm a little bit of a jerk.///The father said that when this was printed, he called the author and asked: "Why are you embarrassing and shaming me?", To which Smirnov replied: "No, I am not embarrassing you, but exalting you." – Thank you, Igor Nikolaevich, for the interesting and warm memories of the poet Nikolai Bukin.///Interviewed by Valentina TINENEVA. 27.04.05
https://web.archive.org/web/20220624195819/http://51rus.org/news/municipalities/18821///http://51rus.org/news/municipalities/18821///Murmansk "singing stele" after reconstruction will continue to sing for citizens///NIA-Murmansk///Published on: 09.06.2016 15:21 48893///One of the attractions of Murmansk is the "singing stele" - so beautifully the towns people call the monument to fishermen and vessels of the trawl fleet, who fell while defending the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War. The glass stele symbolizes the pillar of water in the sea, formed from the explosion. Every day, at 8, 12, 16 and 20 o'clock from the speakers inside the stele sounds the unofficial anthem of the Murmansk region - the song "Farewell to the Rocky Mountains". In the year of the centennial anniversary of the capital of the Arctic, it was decided to reconstruct the stele and the square in which it is located. Modernization of the square is a joint project of the administration of the city of Murmansk and the largest fishing companies. Work began in May. Today, the mayor of the city Alexei Veller went to the square to check the progress of work. "This square is one of the most significant for the city.The most important task facing the builders is to update the square and the "singing stele", preserving not only the appearance, but also the idea, the historical value of the monument," said Alexey Veller. After the completion of the work, the walking area will be paved with concrete and stone slabs, decorated with granite chips, equipped pedestrian paths will appear inside the green zone. A new fence and benches will be installed in the square, the lighting system will be modernized. And, of course, the "singing stele" will be completely updated. Styling will be preserved, but the materials will be replaced with modern ones. The surface of the stele will be covered with LED screens on which the video sequence will be projected. Modern sound equipment will be installed and installed - now the melody of the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" will sound more qualitatively.
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