BELARUSSIAN LYRICS

1. My, Belarusy – mirnyja ljudzi,
Sertsam addanyja rodnaj zjamli.
Shchyra sjabrujem, sily gartujem
My w pratsavitaj, vol’naj sjam’i!

CHORUS
Slawsja zjamli nashaj svetlaje imja,
Slawsja, narodaw braterski sajuz!
Nasha ljubimaja matsi-Radzima,
Vechna czyvi i kvitnej, Belarus!

2. Razam z bratami muczna vjakami
My baranili rodny parog,
W bitvach za volju, bitvach za dolju
Svoj zdabyvali stsjag peramog!

CHORUS

3. Druczba narodaw – sila narodaw – 
Nash zapavetny, sonechny shljach.
Gorda cz uzvisja w jasnyja vysi,
Stsag peramoczny – radastsi stsjag!

CHORUS


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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

We, the Belarusians, peaceful people,  
Our heart is to our native land,  
We maintain generous friendship and gain our powers  
Within the industrious, free family.  
 
Refrain: 
Glory to the bright name of our land,  
Glory to the fraternal union of our peoples!  
Our beloved mother-Motherland,  
Long you live and flourish, Belarus! 
 
Together with brothers, with fortitude, during centuries  
We guarded our native thresholds,  
In struggles for freedom, in struggles for fate,  
We have been gaining our banner of victories.  
 
Refrain 
 
The friendship of peoples (which is) the power of peoples  
Is our venerable, sunny path  
You soar up proudly, into the bright heights,  
The banner of victory, the banner of joy!  
 
Refrain 


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Belarus
"My bielarusy" (We the Belarusians)

Words by:Mikhas Klimkovich and Uladzimir Karyzna
Music by:Nester Sakalouski
Adopted:1955 (music), 2002 (lyrics)

This is another of my favourite national anthems, as are most of the former
Soviet states' anthems. Upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991,
Belarus kept the anthem it used as a soviet socialist republic since 1955,
without the words. (Many SSR's have used an wordless, or instrumental, version
of the SSR hymn very soon after achieving independence.) On July 2, 2002,
President Lukashenko set a decree that the Belarus hymn will have lyrics, and
ones were adopted in a contest. Many of the lyrics were similar to the
Belarussian SSR anthem lyrics.

Special thanks to:Antoine Vélu and Zach Harden for providing some of this
information, to Jaroslaw Wojcik for the sheet music, and Pavel Zinovatny for
the lyrics in Latin script.

See also: Belarus_(1918-1920), Belarus_(1955-1991).

