"Moscow Nights" is a song that was originally created as "Leningrad Nights" by composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky in 1955. At the request of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, the "Подмосковные вечера" (transliterated as "Podmoskovnye Vechera"; more or less "Evenings in the Moscow Suburb") version was prepared, with corresponding changes to the lyrics. In the Soviet Union, the tune became the time signal sounded every 30 minutes on the Mayak radio station. In this recording,