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"Katyusha," also transliterated "Katusha", "Katiusha" or "Katjusha", ( - diminutive of Catherine) is a Russian wartime song composed in 1938 by Matvei Blanter with lyrics from Mikhail Isakovsky. It gained fame during World War II as an inspiration to defend one's land from the enemy.
The song combines elements of the heroic, upbeat battle song and of a peasant song depicting a girl longing for her absent love. Standing on a high riverbank, a young woman, Katyusha, sings of her beloved (compared to "a gray eagle of the steppes"), who is a soldier serving on the border far away. The theme of the song is that the soldier will protect the Motherland and its people while his girl will preserve their love. While the song is joyful and filled with the imagery of a fertile, blooming land, it also conveys the sense that the motherland is under threat.
"Katyusha" was first sung by female students from a Russian industrial school in Moscow to bid farewell to Russian soldiers going on the battle front against Nazi Germany in July 1941. It quickly became popular throughout the USSR. Its first official performance was by Valentina Batishcheva in the Column Hall of Moscow's House of the Unions. Later it was performed by Lidiya Ruslanova, Georgi Vinogradov, Eduard Khil, Anna German, Ivan Rebroff, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Iosif Kobzon, countertenor Vitas, and other singers. "Katyusha" is part of the repertoire of the Alexandrov Ensemble.
Katyusha is a diminutive form of the female name Ekaterina ( Katherine). The song is the probable source of the nickname of the BM-8, BM-13, and BM-31 " Katyusha" rocket launchers that were used by the Red Army in World War II.
Katusha or Katyusha (diminutive of Ка́тя (Kátja, “Katya”), in turn diminutive of Екатери́на (Jekaterína, “Katherine”).), is the English transliteration of the Russian word Катюша, a diminutive or pet name form of the name Екатерина ("Yekaterina"), along with Katyushka and Katinka, the Russian form of Catherine. Thus it is roughly analogous to the English names Kathy or Katie. It may refer to:
- Katyusha (song), a Russian wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved
- Katyusha rocket launcher, Soviet rocket launcher of World War II, named after the song
- Tupolev SB, Soviet medium bomber of World War II
- Team Katusha, a Russian professional cycling team
- Katusha Demidova, a Russian ballroom dancer
- Soviet K-class submarine, nicknamed Katyusha
- 1900 Katyusha, an asteroid
Usage examples of "katyusha".
He reminded himself, firmly, that he had chosen Basil to command the katyusha rocket force because the man was one of the few Thracian cataphracts who had a liking and affinity for the new weapons.
The evenly-distributed thrust provided by those exhaust nozzles made his katyusha rockets far more accurate than their Malwa counterparts.
He had begun donning the gear the moment he heard the first katyusha volleys.
But even his katyusha rocket-men had never seen gunpowder weapons used in the fury and chaos of an actual battle.
Constantinople troops on that end of the dam, backed up by the katyusha rockets.
New stocks of rockets had also arrived, along with three more katyushas and the crews to man them.
The katyushas would be charging at the Malwa from their hiding place in the northeast woods, followed by the Thracian and Illyrian cataphracts.
He was particularly concerned with impressing upon Kurush the need to let his katyushas open the attack.
Where was the Stormovik, the armored Russian attack plane that was likeliest to be carrying Katyusha rockets?
Where was the tormovik, the armored Russian attack plane that was likeliest to be carrying Katyusha rockets?
They had been given that right in the Christian year 1354by the same Emperor Charles IV who had built the Stone Bridge it was now flying over, and which that katyusha had so valiantly defended.
But others thought that his proper resting place as the head of state was on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, in the space reserved for Prime Ministers, especially since crowds of mourners in the Jordan valley kibbutz might be exposed to terrorist assault with mortars and Katyushas.