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Subtitles for Yermak (2013)

English
February 27 2025 07:01:29
Created by Niffiwan, Valdakhar ₂
Yermak.2013.en.1.25fps.1740639689.srt ⭳
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Few rhyming lines, but the number of syllables in each line are mostly the same as in the original song. A few lines are similar to those used in Valdakhar's 2019 LyricsTranslate translation. Some phrases are rather difficult to translate. The original, obviously, flows much better.

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1 00:00:00,908 --> 00:00:04,808 Russia. Volgograd oblast. 21st century. 2 00:00:30,209 --> 00:00:32,949 To discover the truth of the life 3 00:00:33,049 --> 00:00:35,650 of my long-ago Cossack ancestor, 4 00:00:35,750 --> 00:00:38,520 I went out to see this river dry 5 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:42,129 at 15 degrees to 40 Celsius. 6 00:00:42,229 --> 00:00:44,919 At this place, our old hamlet once stood, 7 00:00:45,019 --> 00:00:47,650 but now stand only gardens and hillocks, 8 00:00:47,750 --> 00:00:50,169 only crisscrossing roads heading off 9 00:00:50,269 --> 00:00:53,529 into the horizon, till they're small dots. 10 00:00:53,629 --> 00:00:56,080 Here my ancestors lived since childhood, 11 00:00:56,180 --> 00:00:59,110 trained their skilled hands by chopping up brushwood, 12 00:00:59,210 --> 00:01:01,209 then went to serve whoever they had to, 13 00:01:01,309 --> 00:01:04,899 until they suffered their midlife crisis. 14 00:01:04,999 --> 00:01:07,360 Far from home, they'd cook soups during rest-stops, 15 00:01:07,460 --> 00:01:10,000 would head off, singing, on expeditions. 16 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:12,310 Any foe talking back to them would feel 17 00:01:12,410 --> 00:01:16,210 like a good craftsman next to a genius. 18 00:01:16,460 --> 00:01:19,780 Where they went, they left foreign flags torn down, 19 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,170 and moans in all sorts of foreign phrases - 20 00:01:23,270 --> 00:01:25,629 like right after a party in the dorms 21 00:01:25,729 --> 00:01:28,119 of the Institute of Peoples' Friendship. 22 00:01:28,219 --> 00:01:30,940 I'm standing by a dried out river: [Lychak River] 23 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,659 there is no water, no frogs, no duckweed. 24 00:01:34,759 --> 00:01:37,119 Where are those who hacked fate with both hands, 25 00:01:37,219 --> 00:01:39,819 took Siberia and reached Alaska?! 26 00:01:39,919 --> 00:01:42,620 Where are those, who in battles flat-out 27 00:01:42,770 --> 00:01:45,550 expanded Russia right down to China?! 28 00:01:45,650 --> 00:01:47,440 Why do I stand today at this place 29 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:51,069 all alone, with no land and with no name?! 30 00:01:51,169 --> 00:01:53,679 Why do I gaze at a blackthorn bush, 31 00:01:53,779 --> 00:01:56,829 and an aspen tree between the plants here? 32 00:01:56,929 --> 00:02:00,099 It is no bush, but a Crown of Thorns, 33 00:02:00,199 --> 00:02:03,389 not a tree, but a leafy aspen stake. 34 00:02:04,039 --> 00:02:06,939 I've erected a Cross on this soil - 35 00:02:07,039 --> 00:02:10,059 may it stand here, like an apparition, 36 00:02:10,159 --> 00:02:12,945 like a coda to these native lands, 37 00:02:13,045 --> 00:02:16,729 like a parody of resurrection. 38 00:02:16,830 --> 00:02:20,130 [On this spot there once stood the Cossack Rasteryayev hamlet] 39 00:02:24,529 --> 00:02:28,149 I imagine now ages long gone past: 40 00:02:28,549 --> 00:02:30,219 Sharp sable unsheathed, 41 00:02:30,319 --> 00:02:32,409 a deer on my shield, 42 00:02:32,509 --> 00:02:33,909 I am a Cossack, 43 00:02:34,459 --> 00:02:37,989 my chieftain's Yermak, 44 00:02:38,089 --> 00:02:40,959 and there comes a new night, there comes a new day. 45 00:02:41,059 --> 00:02:46,059 Now our chieftain cheerfully belts out a song; 46 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:49,389 his great beard hangs down to his navel! 47 00:02:49,489 --> 00:02:52,779 All is cloaked in smoke, all is hot with fire. 48 00:02:52,879 --> 00:02:56,069 Once again our gang rides out to the East, 49 00:02:56,169 --> 00:02:59,319 To "play checkers" with that renowned black king 50 00:02:59,419 --> 00:03:02,499 amidst the carpets of the land of chess. 51 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:07,359 How we like all of these mountains and fields - 52 00:03:07,459 --> 00:03:11,069 it must mean that this is Cossack land! 53 00:03:24,079 --> 00:03:27,279 Cliffs and fallen trees, meltwater and snow. 54 00:03:27,379 --> 00:03:30,519 Our chieftain Yermak leads us without maps. 55 00:03:30,619 --> 00:03:33,729 Latitude is where I had whim to sing, 56 00:03:33,829 --> 00:03:36,859 Meridian's drawn by my horse's hooves. 57 00:03:37,069 --> 00:03:40,239 Let them scold us from Western capitals - 58 00:03:40,339 --> 00:03:43,409 we don't care a whit; we cannot be bluffed. 59 00:03:44,059 --> 00:03:46,639 Russia does not have any border-lines! 60 00:03:46,739 --> 00:03:49,349 All that Russia has is the horizon! 61 00:03:49,449 --> 00:03:51,829 As our forces sally forth, <i>[Salehara, Tobolsk, Tyumen]</i> 62 00:03:51,930 --> 00:03:54,430 we leave behind <i>[Krasnoyarsk, Bratsk, Irkutsk]</i> 63 00:03:54,529 --> 00:03:57,939 our placemarkers - Krasnoyarsk, Tobolsk. <i>[Chita, Yakutsk]</i> 64 00:04:10,999 --> 00:04:14,009 Tomorrow, at dawn, a new fight will start; 65 00:04:14,209 --> 00:04:17,259 steel will clash with steel, ringing out anew. 66 00:04:17,359 --> 00:04:20,529 But against all odds I will return home, 67 00:04:20,629 --> 00:04:23,769 maybe with a shield - but more probably with two! 68 00:04:23,869 --> 00:04:26,739 Later I'll recall how I fought back then, 69 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,949 how our chieftain led us to the Earth's edge. 70 00:04:30,049 --> 00:04:33,339 And the whole world saw how by Kamchatka's hills 71 00:04:33,439 --> 00:04:37,899 the "quiet" Don flowed into the Pacific. 72 00:04:37,999 --> 00:04:45,039 "Hey there, matey, I don't much care for your squint! 73 00:04:45,139 --> 00:04:50,769 Why don't you give us that island, quick?" 74 00:04:50,869 --> 00:04:54,069 'Twould be nice to see ages long gone past: 75 00:04:54,169 --> 00:04:57,429 Sharp sable unsheathed, a deer on my shield, 76 00:04:57,529 --> 00:05:00,569 and ahead of me, my chieftain Yermak. 77 00:05:00,669 --> 00:05:04,837 And there comes a new night, there comes a new day. 78 00:05:05,138 --> 00:05:08,038 [Lyoha Lyahov] 79 00:05:08,339 --> 00:05:13,539 words, music, drawings, screenplay Igor Rasteryayev 80 00:05:14,340 --> 00:05:17,040 director Pavel Yegorov 81 00:05:17,441 --> 00:05:20,341 animation Sergey Kotov 82 00:05:21,442 --> 00:05:23,942 subs - Niffiwan @ animatsiya.net (2025)