The "March of the Soviet Tankmen" (Russian: Марш советских танкистов, romanized: Marsh sovetskikh tankistov) is a 1939 Soviet military march song composed by the Pokrass brothers and with lyrics by Boris Savelyevich Laskin [ru] (Борис Савельевич Ласкин),[1] whose debut was in the 1939 movie Tractor Drivers,[2] in which the role of Klim Yarko is played by Nikolai Kryuchkov.
[3] Later the song was used in World War II short titled "Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland" by Ivanov-Vano (1941).
[4] Valery Dunaevsky commented that the song "was full of fighting spirit" in his book A Daughter of the "Enemy of the People" (2015).
В строю стоят советские танкисты, своей великой Родины сыны!
Припев: Гремя огнём, сверкая блеском стали, пойдут машины в яростный поход!
А если к нам полезет враг матёрый, он будет бит повсюду и везде!
Pripev: Gremja ognjom, sverkaja bleskom stali, pojdut mašiny v jarostnyj pohod!
Pustj pomnit vrag, ukryvšijsja v zasade: my načeku, my za vragom sledim!
Chorus: Thunderin' with fire, glintin' with steel, the tanks shall begin a harsh campaign!