---
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- translation
language:
- ru
- en
tags:
- poetry
- songs
- lyrics
- translation
- bilingual
- ORPO
- literary
- soviet
- rock
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---
Lyrics to songs by seminal Soviet and Russian songwriters, poets, and bands.
Manually translated to English with a painstaking effort to cross-linguistically reproduce source texts' phrasal/phonetic, rhythmic, metric, syllabic, melodic, and other lyrical/performance-catered features, whilst retaining adequate semantic/significational fidelity. <br> 

This repo's variant of the dataset was compiled/structured for ORPO-style fine-tuning of LLMs. <br>
The sampling herein constitues a variated inter-mixture of single-line lyrical fragments (appearing most frequently), entire songs, or/and verse/chorus-length song excerpts (often 4-line quatrains of 2x2 couplets in abab or aabb rhyme schemes). <br>
Each row contains the following categories/columns: {instruction}, {input}, {accepted}, {rejected}. <br>
{instruction} = detailed template/role-setting system prompt to reinforce the identification of the base model/LLM-assistant with the functional persona of an experienced Russian-American literary translator/poet/songwriter. <br>
{input} = source lyrics (either song line, song segment (verse, chorus, etc), or entire song <br>
{accepted} = "lyrically-informed" translation of the source lyric by an experienced/trained human literary translator and bilingual songwriter-performer, 
{rejected} = direct/standard translation by an LLM (Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gwen3, and others) or a widely-used specialized translation software tool with stable, but unremarkable, translation abilities (DeepL) <br>

**Translator/Editor/Data-curator**: *Aleksey Calvin Tsukanov (aka A.C.T. soon®)* (multilingual literary translator/archivist, multimedia artist, ML developer/enthusiast, curator of SilverAgePoets.com, and editor/publisher of small-press versebooks, songbooks, and other publications). <br>