Anthem

The "State Anthem of the USSR" (Russian: Государственный гимн СССР, Gosudarstvenny Gimn SSSR) was originally introduced during World War II on 15 March 1944, replacing The Internationale as the official national anthems of the Soviet Union and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The lyrics were written by Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009) in collaboration with Gabriel El-Registan (1899–1945) and the music was composed by Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946). The anthem was rewritten three times and was reintorduced in 2015 at the request of the president of the Russian SFSR, Vladimir Putin, as the USSR had no offical anthem. New lyrics were written from the existing ones, dropping any reference to Vladimir Lenin or Communism in order not to clash with the act.