This is a song by legendary Russian rock band Kino. It was sung on 7 April 2013 as a tribute to Leningrad rock music.
Lyrics
White snow and grey ice, Ground cloven by heat and frost, And upon it like patchwork quilt, City curled up in loop of roads, Clouds float above that city so high, Blending with the dense yellow smoke, Hiding last of the heavens’ light, The city is two thousand years old, Under the light of the star, Called the Sun, That’s two thousand years of the war, War with no special cause, War, business for the young, Face-lift replacement, Blood of the brightest red, In an hour becomes mere earth, In two hours it’s covered with grass, And in three it’s alive again, Warmed by the beams of the star, Called the Sun, And we know it was like that all the time, He who lives by a different law, He who is destined to die young, He is favourite child of the Fate, He who knows not what is yes and what is no, Who remembers neither ranks nor names, Who is able to reach the stars, Never thinking that’s a dream again, And to fall down burned by the star, Called the Sun...