Belarussian State Anthem for Brass Quintet

The State Anthem of the Republic of Belarus,^[a] better known as "We Belarusians",^[b] is the national anthem of Belarus. It was originally written in the 1940s and adopted in 1955 for use in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.^[1] The music of the Belarusian SSR anthem was composed by Niescier Sakałowski and the lyrics were written by Michas Klimkovič. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the music composed by Sakalowski was kept and the lyrics were discarded. New lyrics, which were written by Klimkovič and Uładzimir Karyzna,^[2] were adopted by a presidential decree issued on 2 July 2002.