С чего начинается Родина [S chego nachinaetsya Rodina] [English translation]

What's a beginning of the Motherland ?

It begins with a picture in your ABC-book;

With your good and true friends,

Living in a neighboring yard.

Or maybe it begins

With those songs that the mother sang to us;

With those things, that in any tests

No one cannot take away from us.

What's a beginning of the Motherland ?...

It begins with the cherished bench near our gate;

With this little birch tree that in a field

Grows, bending in the winds.

Or maybe it begins

With the first spring song of starling,

And with this country road

That looks like endless one.

What's a beginning of the Motherland ?...

It begins with windows, shining in the distance;

With the father's old Budenovka

That we found somewhere in our closet.

Or maybe it begins

With a sound of railroad wagon wheels,

And with an oath to it, that in the youth

You've taken deep in your heart.

What's a beginning of the Motherland ? ...

• Artist:Mark Bernes
• Album:Щит и меч OST (1968)