"" (, ) is a song written in 1954 by Soviet composer

Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy (; – 2 December 1979) was a Soviet classical composer and songwriter who was born and died in Leningrad. Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Union of Soviet Composers he added the suffix "Sedoy", mea ...

and poet

Mikhail Dudin Mikhail Aleksandrovich Dudin (; – 31 December 1993) was a Russian Soviet prose writer, poet, translator and journalist, war correspondent. Public figure, screenwriter, author of lyrics and over 70 books of poetry. Hero of Socialist Labor (19 ...

. It was originally written for the film '' Maksim Perepelitsa'' starring

Leonid Bykov Leonid Fedorovich Bykov (, ; 11 December 1928, in Znamenka village, Artemivsk Okruha of Ukrainian SSR – 11 April 1979, in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine, USSR) was a Soviet actor, film director, and script writer. He received the " Honored Artist of t ...

. The movie itself was released in 1955, and the song has achieved fame and popularity independently of it ever since. To this day it is still used as a so-called ''drill song'' (somewhat similar to a cadence call in the

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). In 1959, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi received the

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for this song.Solovyov-Sedoi's biography
(in Russian) "" is performed on

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. This song has also been translated into German,

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and

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(

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) versions. The German translation, sung by the

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, became the signature

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march, "Unterwegs".

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