It's not the only hit of the 1960s from Russia.
"Those Were The Days" by Mary Hopkins (i.e. 'we'll see you all outside, we'll see you all outside...) was a Russian folk song from 1925 called "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("By The Long Road").
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So there.
If you're going to take that song back to its roots, the tune was written for an old Russian folk song called 'Stenka Razin (Volga Volga mat rodnaya)', or 'Iz-za ostrova na strezhen', and dates back to the 1890s.
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