- On the Nameless Height (song)
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On The Nameless Height (Russian: На безымянной высоте) is a Soviet song about World War II. The text was written by Mikhail Matusovskiy in 1963 and music by Veniamin Basner. The song was based on the real history and is about three soldiers, fifteen friends of whom died in the battlefield. The height concerned the one located near the Rubezhenka settlement in the Kuibyshev Region, Kaluga Oblast while the soldiers, mentioned in song, were a part of Soviet 139th infantry division.
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Background
In August, 1943 the 139th Rifle Division was increased newly arrived draftees-volunteers. Eighteen newly arrived factory workers from Novosibirsk were given a task to occupy unnoticed a height behind enemy lines in the vicinity of today's settlement Rubezhonka in Kaluga Oblast. Headed by the Second Lieutenant Yevgeniy Proshin, they were given the deadline for their mission for September 14. Their call sign was Luna. Upon completion of the task Luna gave a positive SITREP for a successful mission. However, soon they were spotted by a German patrol which led to the encirclement of the element and its elimination. No real evaluation of the mission was recorded. Despite the lyrics which say about the three survivors, there were only two in fact: Sergeant Vlasov, Konstantin and Private Lapin, Gerasim. Their lives were miraculously spared when they were knocked unconscious. Sergeant Vlasov was captured as a prisoner, but later was able to escape to partisans; Private Lapin was found among the dead by the advancing elements of Soviet Armed Forces.
Here is the list of the soldiers that were lost in that mission: Nikolai Danilenko, Dmitriy Yaruta, Yemelyan Belokonov, Petr Panin, Dmitriy Shliakhov, Roman Zakomoldin, Nikolai Galenkin, Timofei Kasabiyev, Gavriil Vorobyov, Aleksandr Artamonov, Dmitriy Lipovitser, Boris Kigel, Daniil Denisov, Petr Romanov, Ivan Kulikov.
Translated sample of lyrics
- A grove's been smoking under the mountain
- And already the sunset was ablaze
- There was the three of them remaining
- Out of the other eighteen guys
- How many of them, good friends of ours
- Were left to lie in the darkness there
- Nearby the settlement "Unknown"
- Atop the height that has no name
- There was a rocket up and shinig
- Then falling down like a faded star
- Who only once has seen it happened
- He won't forget till he die
- He won't forget it, will not forget it
- The fierce attacks that happened there
- Nearby the settlement "Unknown"
- Atop the height that has no name
- Over us the "Messeri" have been circling
- They were well seen as in a broad day...
- But only closer we have grown
- Under the crossing artillery hell.
- No matter how difficult it was
- You were committed to your dream
- Nearby the settlement "Unknown"
- Atop the height that has no name
See also
- On the Nameless Height a film
External links
Categories:- 1963 songs
- 1963 in the Soviet Union
- Russian songs
- Soviet songs
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