14 minut do starta

## 14 минут до стартаЯ верю, друзья

A group of prominent Soviet cosmonauts from the same era as the song, including Yuri Gagarin of Vostok 1 as well as Pavel Popovich and Andriyan Nikolayev of Vostok 3.

### Adopted

1967

"**14 minutes till start**", also known as "**I Believe, My Friends**", is a Soviet Russian mass song written by Vladimir Voinovich and composed by Oscar Feltsman in 1960. It was created on behalf of the Soviet government since they wanted a song to commemorate the Vostok 1 mission that would launched the following year. It was meant as an unofficial anthem for the Soviet space program (Космическая программа СССР) of the Space Race. It has been printed many times in the newspaper *Pravda*, and during the Vostok-3 mission, the song was sung in space by the cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich.

## Lyrics

### Russian original

Заправлены в планшеты космические карты,
И штурман уточняет в последний раз маршрут.
Давайте-ка, ребята, споёмте/закурим перед стартом,
У нас ещё в запасе четырнадцать минут.

**Припев:**
Я верю, друзья, караваны ракет
Помчат нас вперёд от звезды до звезды.
𝄆 На пыльных тропинках далёких планет
Останутся наши следы. 𝄇

Когда-нибудь с годами припомним мы с друзьями,
Как по дорогам звёздным вели мы первый путь / прокладывали путь,
Как первыми сумели достичь заветной цели
И на родную Землю со стороны взглянуть.

***Припев***

Давно нас ожидают далёкие планеты,
Холодные планеты, безмолвные поля.
Но ни одна планета не ждёт нас так, как эта,
Планета дорогая/голубая по имени Земля.

***Припев***

Zapravleny v planšety kosmičeskije karty,
I šturman utočnjajet v poslednij raz maršrut.
Davajte-ka, rebjata, spojomte/zakurim pered startom,
U nas ješčjo v zapase četyrnadcatj minut.

**Pripev:**
Ja verju, druzjja, karavany raket
Pomčat nas vperjod ot zvezdy do zvezdy.
𝄆 Na pyljnyh tropinkah daljokih planet
Ostanutsja naši sledy. 𝄇

Kogda-nibudj s godami pripomnim my s druzjjami,
Kak po dorogam zvjozdnym veli my pervyj putj / prokladyvali putj,
Kak pervymi sumeli dostičj zavetnoj celi
I na rodnuju zemlju so storony vzgljanutj.

***Pripev***

Davno nas ožidajut daljokije planety,
Holodnyje planeti, bezmolvnyje polja.
No ni odna planeta ne ždjot nas tak, kak eta,
Planeta dorogaja/golubaja po imeni zemlja.

***Pripev***

### English translation

Tucked into the tablets are the space maps

And the navigator checks the route one last time.

Let us, guys, sing/smoke before our launch:

There's still fourteen minutes left til launch.

**Chorus:**

I believe, my friends, caravans of rockets

Will head us forward from star to star.

𝄆 On dusty paths of the planets from afar

Our footprints shall be left as our marks. 𝄇

After many years we'll remember with friends,

How on the stellar roads we were the first to venture / to pave the way,

How we were the first to reach the cherished goal

And from the greater distance, look at Mother Earth.

***Chorus***

Long have we awaited the distant planets,

The chilly worlds, and the silent fields.

But not one planet is awaiting us

As this precious/blue planet named Earth.

***Chorus***

## References

1. ↑ БИОГРАФИЯ, Войнович Владимир Николаевич.
2. ↑ Красная книга российской эстрады. kkre-51.narod.ru.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 О. Фельцман, В. Войнович - Четырнадцать минут до старта. a-pesni.org.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Я верю друзья
Музыка: Оскар Фельцман Слова: В. Войнович.
SovMusic.ru.