Prayer for Ukraine
English: Prayer for Ukraine | |
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Молитва за Україну | |
Religious anthem of Ukraine | |
Lyrics | Oleksandr Konysky, 1885 |
Music | Mykola Lysenko |
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Molitva za Ukrainu (0:30)
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"Prayer for Ukraine" (Ukrainian: Молитва за Україну, romanized: Mołytwa za Ukrajinu) is the main nominee for the spiritual anthem of Ukraine. There are several versions of the lyrics written by Oleksandr Konysky. The melody was composed by Mykola Lysenko.
History[]
On 14 July 1998 with the initiative of the Cabinet of minister of Ukraine, this church hymn was part of the law project registered under #1229 "About the text of the State Anthem of Ukraine and the Spiritual Anthem of Ukraine. The author of the project was Anatoliy Holubchenko, the native of Mariupol and former vice-premier minister of Ukraine (1997–99).[1] On 24 December 1999 the project was withdrawn.
Lyrics[]
Ukrainian | Ukrainian Latin alphabet | Literary translation by Dmytro Shostak |
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Боже великий, єдиний, |
Boże wełykyj, jedynyj, |
Lord, oh the Great and Almighty, |
References[]
- ^ Biography on the law project author Archived 2007-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Prayer For Ukraine. |
External links[]
- Lyrics (in Ukrainian)
- The hymn live performance - English captioning
- The hymn is planned to become the spiritual anthem (in Ukrainian)
- The law project 1229 on the State and the Spiritual Anthems of Ukraine[permanent dead link] (in Ukrainian) - Verkhovna Rada web-site
- Prayer for Ukraine on YouTube
- Compositions by Mykola Lysenko
- Ukrainian patriotic songs
- 1885 songs