Lev Oshanin is one of the most popular and officially recognized songwriters of the Soviet era, with many of his verses and poems being set to music and widely used by Soviet forces during WWII. The song “Roads" became popular; “Song of Troubled Youth” performed by
Yuri Gulyaev, “The Volga River Flows ” performed by
Vladimir Troshin and
Lyudmila Zykina, and the cycle “And there is a girl in our yard alone” performed by
Joseph Kobzon also gained enormous popularity and
Maya Kristalinskaya, “Solar Circle” (“Let there always be sunshine”), “Why did you call me?”, “Oh, Natasha,” “People in white coats,” “I’m just working as a magician.” The song based on the verses “Sunny Circle” (composer -
Arkady Ostrovsky), performed by
Tamara Miansarova, won at the Polish song festival in
Sopot in 1963. == References ==