Vladimir Vysotskii.
Description: One of Vysotskii’s first war (or anti-war) songs, this one has a large dose of the ‘criminal’ (blatnoi) romanticism characteristic of his songs at the time. A Muscovite himself, Vysotskii conveys the grit and valor of Leningraders determined to live their lives, despite such tragedies as the bombing of the Badaev Warehouses, where the city’s food supply burned in September 1941.