March of the Soviet Tankmen (russian: Марш советских танкистов) is a 1939 military march composed by the

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and with lyrics by (Борис Савельевич Ласкин), whose debut was in the 1939 movie ''

Tractor Drivers Tractor Drivers (russian: Трактористы, Traktoristy) is a 1939 Soviet Union, Soviet comedy drama film directed by Ivan Pyryev. Plot In the 1930s, the demobilized tank driver Klim Yarko returns to his ''kolkhoz'' on the Ukrainian stepp ...

'', in which the role of Klim Yarko is played by Nikolai Kryuchkov. Later the song was used in

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short titled "Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland" by Ivanov-Vano (1941). Valery Dunaevsky commented that the song "was full of fighting spirit" in his book ''A Daughter of the "Enemy of the People"'' (2015).

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Russian military marches 1939 songs Songs written for films Russian patriotic songs Russian military songs Soviet songs Tanks Songs about Russia Songs of World War II {{WWII-stub

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