Dark Is The Night, known in Russian as Tyomnaya Noch, was written in 1943 for the Soviet film Two Soldiers, with music by Nikita Bogoslovsky and lyrics by Vladimir Agatov, and performed by Mark Bernes. The tender song about a soldier longing for his wife became one of the most beloved Soviet wartime songs and has been covered for decades since. Slowed and reverbed edits later spread on YouTube and TikTok, where the distant, echoing treatment gave the old recording a new life in sad and nostalgic edits.