In Popular Culture
The song was featured as the background theme music for the USSR level of the NES video game Super Dodgeball. A slightly more upbeat-dance version was featured in the game The Next Tetris.
The Soviet figure skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov performed their exhibition dance using this song at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Olga Kapranova used a remixed version of "Katyusha," composed by DJ Rasputin, for her ribbon routine at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for her ribbon routine.
The song also appears in the films The Deer Hunter and Downfall.
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