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Wide Is My Motherland

1936 · 20th century · Also known as Широка страна моя родная, Shiroka strana moya rodnaya

"Wide Is My Motherland", also called the "Song of the Motherland", is a Soviet patriotic song of 1936 with music by Isaac Dunaevsky and words by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. They wrote it for the film Circus, working on it for half a year and changing tune and words again and again; the version they settled on was their thirty-sixth.

Songs in history

Wide Is My Motherland1936

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Wide Is My Motherland. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/wide-is-my-motherland
MLA
“Wide Is My Motherland.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/wide-is-my-motherland. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Wide Is My Motherland.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/wide-is-my-motherland.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Wide Is My Motherland’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/wide-is-my-motherland (Accessed: ).

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