Юрий Гагарин - Выступление перед стартом - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Dear friends, relatives and strangers, compatriots, people of all countries and continents!

In a few minutes, a mighty spaceship will take me into the distant expanses of the Universe. What can I tell you in these last minutes before the start?! My whole life seems to me now to be one beautiful moment. Everything that has been lived, everything that has been done before, was lived and done for the sake of this moment. You understand that it is difficult to understand our feelings now, when the hour of testing has come very close, for which we have been preparing for a long time and passionately. It is hardly worth talking about the feelings that I experienced when I was offered to make this first flight in history. Joy? No, it was not only joy. Pride? No, it wasn't just pride. I experienced the great happiness of being the first in space, entering one-on-one into an unprecedented duel with nature.

Could I have dreamed of more? But after this, I thought about the colossal responsibility that fell on me not to be the first to accomplish what generations of people had dreamed of, to be the first to pave the way for humanity into space. Give me a task that is more difficult than the one that fell to me. And this responsibility is neither before one, nor before a dozen people, nor before the team. This responsibility is before the entire Soviet people, before all humanity, before its present and future. And if, nevertheless, I decide to take this flight, it is only because I am a communist, that I have behind me examples of the unparalleled heroism of my compatriots, the Soviet people. I know that I will muster all my will to complete the task in the best possible way. Understanding the responsibility of the task, I will do everything in my power to fulfill the task of the Communist Party and the Soviet people.

Now there are only a few minutes left before the start. I say to you, dear friends, goodbye!