"Долго же шел ты в конверте, листок ..." ["Dolgo zhe shel ty v konverte, listok..."] [English translation]

Long, however you look in the envelope, a leaflet, -

The last terms have passed!

But because he is in the Far East,

That is far in the east ...

Impatiently you are awaiting an answer -

News with a few words ...

We meet here at daybreaks

Eight hours earlier.

Here roar the steamers till the morning

Surrounded by oceanic noises -

Not because it is called the Pacific,

It is indeed pacific.

Impatiently you are awaiting an answer -

News with a few words ...

We meet here at daybreaks

Eight hours earlier.

Don't get frightened about stories,

As if here is the very brink of the world, -

Behind is still Sachalin, and then -

Our round planet.

Impatiently you are awaiting an answer -

News with a few words ...

We meet here at daybreaks

Eight hours earlier.

They say - here is, of course, not the paradise,

But the correspondence is intolerable, -

You know that, my love, you are summoned:

The Far East - that is near!

Soon you will get an answer -

News with a few words!

Together we would meet at daybreaks -

Eight hours earlier!

• Artist:Vladimir Vysotsky