This publication is based on the collotype edition—D. Shostakovich, “Poem of the Motherland”, Muzfond of the USSR, Moscow, 1947, collated with the author’s manuscript kept at RNMM, rec. gr. 32, f. 81 and the full score published in this book—D. Shostakovich, New Collected Works, Vol. 77, DSCH, Moscow.