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.
Used by	the Soviet space program
Lyrics	Vladimir Voinovich
Music	Vladimir Voinovich
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

Владимир Трошин "14 минут до старта" (1967)

Russian original

Cyrillic script

Latin script

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 the distant planets awaited us,
The chilly worlds, and the silent fields.
But not one planet is awaiting us
As this precious/blue planet named Earth.

Chorus