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Originally Posted by geetrue
Do the Russians have any Christian hymn's?
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Depends what you mean. There is a limited amount of gospel music; in fact my father recorded some back in the day. There is also some christian rock, but on the whole the Orthodox church tends to be quite conservative so there's no officially-endorsed modern Orthodox music (though it works the other way, and quite a few popular rock musicians are openly Orthodox).
If you mean traditional, then there is a tradition of orthodox church choral singing. It's pretty amazing and rather different from its western counterparts.
Here's an example: