Russian Red Army Choir - Song of the Volga Boatmen (1965) 

+5.000.000.000 points of fortitude.;p

Bishop Luther most powerful payoff in RU-vid. Wild!

I know, its sounds powerful and ominous! It Gives out a giant tidal wave of tingles down your spine, it makes it sounds inevitable and intimidating!

I already have a beard. I guess I'm covered.

@@AlexTheGamePlan I also have a beard. So I get the man pass.

@@AlexTheGamePlan unintentional dad joke?

It sounds right in the heart.

Because it is FROM the heart!

Marianela Versalli I think that is normal. Greatest of Great Russian poets by Alexander Pushkin was grandson Africans man, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, German, Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli - Italian Jose de Ribas, is Spagnan, Alexander-Louis de Lanzheron, from France and many, many other people, were foreign, but for the whole Russian people these people are great Russian people, becose all these "foreigners" had Russian souls Sorry for bad english

Despite being told who my father is/was, I think that the other one has to be because of my love or Russian Musique! Sorry don't' remember the name of the movie but I have seen it since but it had the Russian dancing , it impressed me so much!

Same as me comadre

Roy G. Scotty Martin I think it gives Russians a bitter sweet feeling at least it does with me if you know the history behind the Volga boatmen

Like having ones heart torn out. Rest In Peace. So Very Sad.

Epic is too small Word to describe it

They were hired workers who pulled ships in the way of the river current. It was hard work but it was highly paid and they certainly did not suffer because they themselves were hired(google translate)

Correct, but burlaki did a somewhat different job. Back then, before the steamboats were a thing, the inland merchants were moving their merchandise by the means of sailing the rivers. Traveling downstream wasn't a problem - the ship'd just go with the current. But traveling back - upstream that is - without an external aid was impossible. So burlaki (it's a plural, btw; a singular form is "burlak") were the folks you'd hire to get your ship back where it came from. They walked the shore tugging the ship upstream using ropes. Sometimes, when the wind direction was right, the ship crew would deploy the sails. That somewhat helped. Horses were expensive af. They probably were used sometimes, like to tug a ship for a royal family or something...

Leonid Kharitonov has the best baritone voice!

Chills.

I remember hearing about that. It had deeply moved me!

Was für ein riesiger Verlust 😢

:) cheers

procreate, please.

Look up the Leonid Kharitonov yt channel. It's run by his son, and they post his songs with English subs.

communist strogg is real

lmao i'm done

yes, this is art

Music is a form of art

+Георгий Толокольников Georgi, I agree, but the song became much more familiar to people outside Russia during the GPW, when it was associated with the efforts to supply the Red Army forces in Stalingrad. For that reason it is still the best-known Russian song in the West.

+Георгий Толокольников ,do you love capitalism better,have you got a better life,communism is the peoples right,you love imperialist swines,mickey mouse

helene matz On the contrary, sister. I am a socialist. I believe that all the workers of the world got a better deal following the Second World War, based on the great sacrifices of the Soviet people, and on their own demands for social justice, based on their own efforts in the war against fascism. Sadly, this social contract has been burned away over the past 30 years, and the working classes must force a new contract, or a revolution.

+helene matz To what here communism or capitalism? This song reflects Russians spirit.

Heart of Russia is in the Slav.

You can forever start to be!

much better than western gay band, main singer killed arond 15 Nazzi at age 10 at same place as in song - why do y think hes main- cose hes pretty????? long live glory ---- SOL INVICTUS

Cihan Hustlende Moruk ахахахахахахахахаха

Is not "boyband" Is Manband!

@@LordDavid04 i agree towarzyszu

Nicht alle Boy Bands dieser Welt zusammen haben diese Stimme und die Kraft Wahnsinn 👍

Yes comrade! )

yesh li krovey mishpaha she bau la arets be shnat 1920. ani yahudi Rusi me kanada ve af paam lo aiti ba arets.

У нас и так лучший гимн в Мире.

И рабского труда надо заметить. Современной России самый замечательный был бы гимн, тяжелый, рабский, бессмысленный и не приносящий пользы труд

Слова человека в жизни палку не поднявшего.

Была б луче

В чем это выражается? Аргументы пожалуйста и конкретное сравнение нашего и других гимнов......

Russians never were an enemy to anyone! Russia is defense of humans quality and families.

***** yes,but everyone want to be the enemy of Russia.

Кончайте тупить! Совсем вам мозги забили, что ли?

KhZina конечно забили. На самом то деле все просто великолепно. Все люди на нашей планете взявшись за руки водят хороводы и поют о любви.

If you learn about Russian history you will find how much suffering the people endured throughout time. This is a song about that suffering and obviously the performer acted as such!

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Ilya_Repin_-_Barge_Haulers_on_the_Volga_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/400px-Ilya_Repin_-_Barge_Haulers_on_the_Volga_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Oh yes. I agree with you :))!. But The Portuguese also do the same, with their more than a 1000-year-old culture, music, poetry, and literature. Unfortunately, they are still at the phase of stabbing each other in the back. :( They have been taught not to unite. They are always arguing with each other, and they throw the best among themselves into prisons and "madhouses-full-of-the-healthiest-best-people", as if we were in Stalin time, (in Russia). Russians on the contrary, unite. So it is hard to do something for Portugal - besides taking advantage and exploiting it, which is what most people do. They literally want to throw a person in prison who never did anything wrong - after decades of protecting and supporting some people doing terribly wrong things!!! They are kind of frozen. Nothing seems to make them see this, and give it up, even if the truth seems to be right in front of their eyes. The country has been sold out since years of so-called "Democracy". They keep on doing the same. Why? They do nothing to keep the people here who are good for the country and necessary. They forbid all the best from starting small enterprises, they break their backs. If a person is a patriot and truly wants to do something for the country, as I do, they support a wave of defamation and character assassination of the person. They trash everything of more value which could help them. And support and pay fortunes to the low things and that which is actually genocide. Once I was abroad, and I talked with a Portuguese. I said I would like to do this and that for Portugal. She immediately said: "Do it here, abroad. In Portugal itself, they will let you do nothing!!! - not a thing". This is strange, isn't it? And indeed I came here! Ready to try different things - and they only forced me to only deal with complete nonsense and rubbish, spending all my resources and energy. They took all my freedom away and did a lot of other terrible things to me!!!! And they threaten every day, to do even worst!!!! To put me in prison for 5 years. While I never did anything wrong. Not at all. And I wouldn't be facing any of this if I could betray Portugal, as Portugal or Portuguese have betrayed me. Which I will not, anyway. I liked your comment, BTW.

I would like to meet more people who think like you, but unfortunately, your channel is empty. Russian Culture is European, much more then what it admits, and much more then what it teaches to Russians and others. :) We need to fight for and protect all the good of European culture - and not excluding Russia, of course. Even... you have no idea how the music is similar to Portuguese music, in many senses. :)

verstehts du den Text des Liedes?

Leonid Leonidovich Kharitonov, the lead singer, did not, nor in all likelihood did any of these singers. This was filmed in 1965. Kharitonov died of heart disease in 2017, about two months before Dmitri Hvorostovsky, another magnificent Siberian bass baritone. I hope the taiga will have more such voices to offer one day!

That's really sad 😔 RIP.

ДыктЪ, не совсем Шаляпин, но шерсть встаёт и так. Эх ухнем

US Sailors sing this? in English though? where are yall stationed

The current line-up, out of the 67 only 3 survived, including the current solo leadsinger.

O. LACRIMA to our fallen comrades

.. bitter-sweet news.. dvchel, thank you!

Ich kann alle Lider mitsingen als ich von der Stadt nach Hause fuhr steh auf du grosses La d auf dem Fahrrad gesungen. Auf Russisch .Was dienste wie die geklont haben ,die Kinnladen sind runter gefallen .

+David n I dont know the why of those Czarist Supporters. Russia before 1917 was a poor and agricultural country, commanded by Autoritarian and Totalitarian Tsars. Russia after 1917 became a World SuperPower, with a Strong and Industrial economy, saving millions of lives from poverty.

ㅤㅤ Tell that to the millions who died of famine because of the Bolsheviks "genius" war-communism plan!

David n It was Post-WW1 and Russian Civil War. Those famines ocurred during the Communist Regime because Russia was unstable, they're were not ready to gather food easily. Most of the Fertile Lands, farms and Food Stocks were looted by the German Empire during the World War 1 (1914-1917). True communism on Russia started in 1928, when Joseph Stalin started the Five-Year Plan (1928-1933).

David n Since when? Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks were favor of Equality, food for everyone and Abolistion of the Classes. To be honest, they tried to put in pratice a Utopian Ideology, writed by Karl Marx; Moneyless and classless Society where everyone is Equal.

ㅤㅤ And they completely failed.