Ukrainian anthem

The State Anthem of Ukraine is written on the music written by M. Verbytskyi with the words by Pavlo Chubynskyi, an outstanding ethnographer from the region of Ukraine's capital, Kiev. In 1863, Mykhaylo Verbytsky, Ukrainian composer and a Greek-Catholic priest composed music to accompany Chubynsky's text. The first choral performance of the piece was in 1864 at the Ukrainian Theatre in Lviv.

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In 1917, it became the anthem of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

Shche ne vmerla Ukraina was sung as already the national anthem on the December 5, 1991 while inauguration of the first President of Ukraine - Leonid Kravchuk.

English transliteration of the anthem:

Shche ne vmerla Ukrayiny i slava, i volya,
Shche nam, brattia molodii, usmikhnet'sia dolia.
Z-hynut' nashi vorizhen'ky, yak rosa na sontsi,
Zapanuyem i my, brattia, u svoyiy storontsi.

CHORUS x2
Dushu y tilo my polozhym za nashu svobodu
I pokazhem, shcho my, brattia, kozats'koho rodu.

Stanem brattia, v biy kryvavy, vid Sianu do Dony
V ridnim kraiu panuvaty ne damo ni komy.
Chorne more shche vsmikhnetsia, did Dnipro zradiie,
Shche na nashiy Ukrayini dolen'ka naspiie.

CHORUS

A zavziatta pratsia shchyra svoho shche dokazhe,
Shche sia voli v Ukrayini pisn' huchna rozliazhe.
Za Karpaty vidibiet'tsia z-homonyt' stepamy,
Ukrayiny slava stane pomizh narodamy.

CHORUS

English translation of the anthem:

Ukraine has not perished, neither her glory, nor freedom,
Upon us, fellow--Ukrainians, fate shall smile once more.
Our enemies will vanish, like dew in the morning sun,
And we too shall rule, brothers, in a free land of our own.

CHORUS
We'll lay down our souls and bodies to attain our freedom,
And we'll show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack nation.

We'll stand together for freedom, from the Sian to the Don,
We will not allow others to rule in our motherland.
The Black Sea will smile and grandfather Dnipro will rejoice,
For in our own Ukraine fortune shall flourish again.

CHORUS

Our persistence and our sincere toils will be rewarded,
And freedom's song will resound throughout all of Ukraine.
Echoing off the Carpathians, and rumbling across the steppes,
Ukraine's fame and glory will be known among all nations.

CHORUS