Anthem of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic
English: Anthem of the Karelo-Finnish SSR | |
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Musical sheet of the anthem. | |
State anthem of | |
Lyrics | Armas Äikiä |
Music | Karl Rautio |
Adopted | Early 1950s |
Relinquished |
July 16, 1956 (demoted to ASSR)[1] November 13, 1991 |
Audio sample | |
Anthem of the Karelo-Finnish SSR - Karjalais-suomalainen SNT hymni (instrumental)
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The State Anthem of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was the national anthem of Karelia (now a federal subject of Russia) when it was a republic of the Soviet Union and known as the Karelo-Finnish SSR.
Background
In 1945, the government of the Karelo-Finnish SSR held a competition for the creation of a state anthem. The winning entry (written by Armas Äikiä and composed by Karl Rautio) was adopted as the SSR's official anthem in the early 1950s until 1956 when it was re-absorbed into the Russian SFSR. Along with the Georgian and Estonian SSR anthems, it was one of the few Soviet Republic anthems that did not mention the Russian people.
Lyrics
FIRST VERSE | |||
Oma Karjalais-suomalaiskansamme maa, |
Родная страна нашего Карело-Финского народа, |
Rodnaja strana naševo Karelo-Finskovo naroda, |
Our land of the Karelian-Finnish peoples, |
Chorus | |||
Neuvostoliitto on voittamaton, |
Советский Союз непобедим, |
Sovetskij Sojuz nepobedim, |
The Soviet Union is invincible, |
SECOND VERSE | |||
Isänmaa Kalevan, kotimaa runojen, |
Отечество Калевы, родина рун, |
Otečestvo Kalevy, rodina run, |
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Chorus | |||
Neuvostoliitto on voittamaton, |
Советский Союз непобедим, |
Sovetskij Sojuz nepobedim, |
The Soviet Union is invincible, |
THIRD VERSE | |||
Kotimaamme loi uudeksi kansamme työ, |
Нашу родину вновь создал труд нашего народа, |
Našu rodinu vnovj sozdal trud naševo naroda, |
Our people's labor revived our homeland, |
Chorus | |||
Neuvostoliitto on voittamaton, |
Советский Союз непобедим, |
Sovetskij Sojuz nepobedim, |
The Soviet Union is invincible, |
See also
References
- ↑ Helin, Ronald Arthur (1961). Economic-geographic Reorientation in Western Finnish Karelia: A Result of the Finno-Soviet Boundary Demarcations of 1940 and 1944. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. p. 101.