Boris Fomin

Boris Ivanovich Fomin (Бори́с Ива́нович Фоми́н, April 12th 1900, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – October 25th 1948, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet musician and composer who specialised in the Russian romance.
Several of Fomin's songs became popular in 1920s, most notably "Dorogoj dlinnoju" ("Дорогой длинною", By the long road), commonly known for its English version "Those Were the Days", made world-famous in 1968 by Mary Hopkin and credited to Eugene Raskin who in 1962 wrote the English lyrics for the tune and claimed the song for his own. Sandie Shaw's version of the song was released in September 1968.
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