Grass by the Home (russian: Трава у дома, Trava u doma) is a 1983 song by former Soviet and Russian music group
Zemlyane. The lyrics were written by
Anatoly Poperechny and music by
Vladimir Migulya. The song tells about
cosmonauts in space, longing for Earth, along with their homes and the grass.
In 2009, the
Russian Federal Space Agency named "Grass by the Home" the official anthem of Russian cosmonauts.
The song was the finalist of the 1983 edition of
Song of the Year Song of the Year may refer to:
* Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year
* Dove Award for Song of the Year
* Golden Melody Award for Song of the Year
* Grammis Song of the Year
* Grammy Award for Song of the Year
* Latin Grammy Awa ...
. In 1984, it was used in the 14th episode of
Well, Just You Wait! (Nu, pogodi).
On May 31, 2020, on the day of the first launch of the
SpaceX
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crewed spacecraft, a modified video of the Zemlyane group and a deepfake Elon Musk with the song Grass by the House became a hit in the Russian segment of the Internet. In an interview with the Moskva Speaks radio station, Sergei Skachkov, spoke positively about the video and wished ''“everyone sang the song: the Chinese, the Japanese"''.
In April 2020, the unregistered Russian political party
VKPB announced the translation of the song "Grass near the House" into Japanese. On April 14, 2021, a Yiddish translation of the song was published in the Russian newspaper
Birobidzhaner Stern. The Internet version of the article is accompanied by a link to a video with the translation of the song and also contains a literary translation into English.
References
External links
«Трава у дома». Как был написан первый гимн советских космонавтов?
1983 songs
Soviet songs
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