Somewhere in a Field Near Magadan (1982)
Iosif Kobzon. Music: Aleksandra Pakhmutova. Lyrics: Nikolai Zabolotskii
Description: This Zabolotsky poem (1956, unpublished in his lifetime), set to music by Aleksandra Pakhmutova captures the stark and dismal reality of the lives lost in the distant prison camps. Even after their return, the former prisoners often could not reintegrate themselves into a world that had changed immeasurably, and could not understand what they had suffered.