“14 Minutes To Launch” by Vladimir Troshin aka the #1 Soviet song about space.
Music by O. Feltzman, lyrics by V. Voinovich. Recorded and published in the autumn of 1960, it became an anthem after Gagarin’s space flight in April 1961.
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