Alyosha (song)

"Alyosha"
Song by Eduard Kolmanovsky, Konstantin Vanshenkin
LanguageRussian
Published1966
GenrePatriotic Song
ComposerEduard Kolmanovsky
LyricistKonstantin Vanshenkin

Alyosha (Russian: Алёша) is a Soviet-era Russian song by composer Eduard Kolmanovsky and poet Konstantin Vanshenkin. The subject is the Alyosha Monument, the common local name for the 11-metre (36-foot) statue of a World War II Soviet soldier which stands in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv as a monument to all Soviet soldiers who died during the fighting in Bulgaria.

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