Zhuravli (Russian: «Журавли́»; IPA: [ʐʊrɐˈvlʲi], Cranes), composed in 1968, is one of the most famous Russian songs about World War II. The Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov, when visiting Hiroshima, was impressed by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the monument to Sadako Sasaki. The memory of paper cranes made by the girl haunted him for months and inspired him to write a poem starting with the now famous lines: "It seems to me sometimes that our soldiersWho were not to return from fields of goreDid not one day lie down into our landBut turned into a skein (wedge) of white cranes..."