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"I'm So Glad As I'm Finally Returning Home" (ru. Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой) is a Russian patriotic song written and composed by Arkady Ostrovsky in 1966. One of the first performers of this vocalization was Valery Obodzinsky, who recorded it in 1967, accompanied by a concert and orchestra.

It was performed by Soviet Russian baritone singer Eduard Khil. This song became a meme in 2010 when a 1976 clip of him singing a non-lexical vocable version of this song circulated through media. Khil became popular as well. The song was often referred to as "Trololol" or "Trololo", as an onomatopoeia of the song, or as the "Russian Rickroll", and, as such, the song was commonly associated with Internet trolling. The song's newfound prominence in Internet culture led him to adopt Mr. Trololo as a stage name.

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