Moscow Nights (Подмосковные вечера) - EPIC Soviet Instrumental Song

"Moscow Nights" (Подмосковные вечера), also titled as "Midnight in Moscow" is a popular Soviet and Russian song. An arrangement exists for a march as well.

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Well-established in their careers, composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky wrote the song in 1955 with the title "Leningrad Nights", but at the request of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, they changed the title to "Подмосковные вечера" ("Moscow Nights," or literally, "Evenings in the Moscow Oblast") and made corresponding changes to the lyrics.

In 1956, "Moscow Nights" was recorded by Vladimir Troshin, a young actor of the Moscow Art Theatre, for a scene in a documentary about the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's athletic competition Spartakiad in which the athletes rest in Podmoskovye, the Moscow suburbs. The film did nothing to promote the song, but thanks to radio broadcasts it gained a significant degree of popularity.

The shortwave radio station Radio Moscow's English-language service has played an instrumental version of "Moscow Nights" between informing listeners of frequency changes and the hourly newscast since the start of its 24-hour English Service in 1978.