Alexandra Pakhmutova and Alexander Dobronbov wrote dozens of songs that were sung by the whole country ("Nadezhda", "Our Youth Team" and dozens more songs glorifying various professions from geologists to rocket scientists and BAM builders). In 1962 they were invited to sing about submarines - they had just taken Fidel Castro out of Cuba without noticing and became incredibly popular.
Alexandra Nikolayevna said that for her creativity she needed to see how submarines live, and she and her husband went to Polyarny (a city on the Barents Sea), where a submarine that had been under attack for six months was supposed to sail.
Pakhmutova arrived at the pier a few hours before the appointed time and walked by the sea in a Canadian coat (it was November). It is worth remembering that the great composer was 149 cm tall and looked like a cabin boy who forgot something on the beach.
The boat had arrived an hour earlier and there was no one in the port except Pakhmutuba, either because they were waiting later, or because they were celebrating the Great October Day. A sailor appeared on the boat ready to throw off the mooring lines so that he could be tied to the bollard, and the sailors, who had seen neither land nor their wives for six months, managed at last to get out. "Hey, on the pier! Get the ending! He shouted, but there was no answer from the short man in black.
"On the piers, tudit-rastudit! Get a thread, Yokelman-Operst! "It came from the submarine much stronger. On the beach - the same effect! Some strange, frail and deaf-mute sailor on the pier froze like an idol, and only sprouted in his eyes.
Then a choice curse sounded from the submarine into all vocal cords. If we translate the words from the obscene sea language into literary Russian, then the meaning of his speech was that the crew was very tired from a long journey, but because of some lazy, careless and disorganized people, his crew could not reach their home shore. And everything was expressed in such an emotional way that the whole base was awakened.
People came running, tied the mooring lines, the sailors went ashore, and Pakhmotova came up with the great composition "When a tired submarine goes home from the depths".