Четырнадцать минут до старта! (14 Minutes to Start!) -- Orchestral/Instrumental Cover

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"14 Minutes Until Start" (Russian: Четырнадцать минут до старта), also known as "I Believe, My Friends" (Russian: Я верю, друзья) is a popular Soviet and Russian mass song composed in 1960 by Oscar Feltsman, to lyrics by Vladimir Voinovich.The song was written as an unofficial anthem for the Soviet Space Program, and became a popular fixture of Space Race era Soviet propaganda, being printed several times in Pravda and even being sung in space by cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich during the Vostok-3 Mission.


14 Minutes Until Start was written in autumn 1960 by Vladimir Voinovich, a relatively unknown Soviet author at the time, during his six months working as a writer for All-Union Radio. In late 1960, the Soviet government requested that a song be written to commemorate the Vostok 1 mission, which was scheduled for launch in mid-1961. In his biography "Design", Voinovich claims that he was the only worker at the All-Union Radio to volunteer to write lyrics for the piece, and, with help from Oscar Feltsman, the song was completed within less than a week of the order. The song was not widely distributed in the Soviet Union until after the success of the Vostok-1 Mission, but became an almost obligatory addition to any space-related musical repertoire afterwards. The song peaked in popularity in summer 1962, when it was sung aboard the Vostok-3 spaceflight by cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, as well as at when the crew of Vostok 3 were received by Nikita Khrushchev after the mission.


In 1974, Voinovich was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers, and subsequently exiled from the USSR six years late, due to his involvement with the anti-Soviet satirical novel "Moscow 2042", which the government of the USSR viewed as stoking sympathies for far-right Tsarist writers such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn. After his expulsion, the use of 14 Minutes Until Start drastically decreased, although this decrease in broadcast coincided with a general decrease in Soviet space exploration. 14 Minutes Until Start remains a moderately popular song in Russia today, and has spawned several contemporary parodies.