Favorites: poems, songs, poems

"Atlantes", "At the Pillars of Hercules", "The Sky is Blue Over Canada", "To the Continent", "The Wife of the French Ambassador", "Drifts", "Snow", "Leather Jackets" ("Song of the Polar Pilots") — these songs by Alexander Gorodnitsky, written during distant ocean voyages and expeditions in the Far North, have long become popular, and the poet himself is rightly recognized as a living classic. His name stands alongside those of Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, and Yuri Vizbor. Alexander Gorodnitsky's song "Atlantes Hold the Sky..." is the official anthem of the State Hermitage and the unofficial anthem of St. Petersburg. The works of the famous poet and bard are the subject of scientific articles and dissertations.