Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. The Hill.
Commentary to “A Song about the Neutral Zone”.
“...it’s opened our frontier with Turkey just like the Kremlin gate...” — in 1955, a part of the territory of the Moscow Kremlin was opened to the Soviet citizens.
The translation was adapted from Stas and Margaret Porokhnya’s one, the first line was taken from the manuscript (Turkestan was one of the Soviet republics).