The Partisan's Song (По долинам и по взгорьям) - EPIC Orchestral Cover

"Through Valleys and Over Hills"/Po dolinam i po vzgoriam (По долинам и по взгорьям) also known as Partisan's Song (Партизанская/Песня партизан), is a popular Red Army song from the Russian Civil War and World War I.

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It is believed that the original song melody was composed by Yuri Cherniavsky in 1915 for recruits, but it is possible that it circulated in Russia even before. Vladimir Gilyarovsky wrote text for the song named "March of the Siberian Regiment". His text has three versions. Peter Parfenov wrote the latest version of the song after the Battle of Volochayevka in 1922.

Po dolinam i po vzgoriam has many versions in other languages, including Serbo-Croatian, Greek, German (Partisanen vom Amur, by the Erich-Weinert Ensemble), French, Hungarian, Hebrew, Kurdish and others. The song was adapted by the Yugoslav Partisans and used in World War II.

The lyrics to the Imperial Russian Army version of the song were penned by the Russian writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky, which were to inspire the Baikal Cossacks who were going to World War I. Later the song became an anthem to the Siberian Liberation Movement as most of the Siberian Cossacks sworn to the Russian Empire, and kept fighting even as the Bolshevik cause gained the upper hand during the Civil War. The song then proved to be so popular that the Reds wrote their own version of lyrics commemorating their decisive Pacific victory at Volochayevka. The song also served as a march during the Russian Civil War for the White Army as March of the Siberian Riflemen or alternatively Siberian Rifleman's March under the command of Admiral Kolchak. The song also served as a commemorative march for General (then Staff Colonel) Mikhail Drozdovsky and the Volunteer Army, after he marched the Volunteer Army in Drozdovsky's March, otherwise known as the Iași–Don March. After the end of the Russian Civil War the song was popular within the RSFSR and the USSR, with communist partisan fighters in Yugoslavia and German-occupied Russia using the song. The song is commonly played by the A.V. Alexandrov Ensemble, better known as the Red Army Choir.