Russian ballad, Lyrical dark chanson, male vocals with a moderate narrative tone, slow to medium tempo, 90–100 bpm, minor key. Instruments: acoustic guitar, accordion, deep bass, thin eerie synth pads. Mood: tragic, fatal, heavy atmosphere of the steppe. Lyrical theme: a young man meets a girl in the steppe near Dzheskazgan, they fall in love, but fate separates them, he goes on a convoy to the Far East; themes of separation, grief and memory. Structure: intro, verse 1 (meeting), chorus (love is like a flash in the dark), verse 2 (turn/bad turn), bridge (internal conflict), final chorus with an emotional peak,smoothly ending with the sound of the wind