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Abstract. The article deals with the tetralogy of Shostakovich’s military symphonies (from the Sixth to the Ninth), which appeared in 1939-1945. Each of them is endowed with its own unique style and recreates the atmosphere of the corresponding stage of the military epopee by means of musical art. During these years a lot of other composers wrote symphonies in parallel with Shostakovich, but only he was destined to create the chronicle of the war years, the grandest in relation of thought and universal in relation of content, in his symphonic tetralogy.

Key words and phrases: тетралогия симфоний Шостаковича 1939-1945 годов, отображение основных этапов военной эпопеи, грандиозная летопись военных лет, наиболее значимое воплощение средствами музыкального искусства событий Второй мировой войны, Shostakovich’s tetralogy of symphonies of 1939-1945, reflection of main stages of military epopee, grand chronicle of war years, the most significant embodiment of the Second World War events by means of musical art