I learned that I have a huge family: the path and the little wood, and in the field every single ear of corn!

Я узнал, что у меня
Есть огромная семья:
И тропинка, и лесок,
В поле – каждый колосок!
Речка, небо голубое –
Это все мое, родное.
Это Родина моя!
Всех люблю на свете я!

Literal translation

I learned that I have
A huge family:
The path and the little wood,
And in the field every single ear of corn!
The river, the blue sky,
All of it is mine, my own.
This is my Motherland!
I love everyone in the world!

Remember this poem from "Brother 2"?

The author of these lines is said to be the Yukaghir poet, artist and journalist Nikolai Kurilov, on the grounds that he wrote "Native" ("Rodnoye") in the Yukaghir language in about the 1980s, and that Mikhail Yasnov translated it into Russian, as indicated by a note in the 1987 book "Kolobok".

Other sources name as the author of this cult eight-liner the Crimean poet Vladimir Orlov. Under his name the lines, dated 1985, were published that same year in the newspaper "Nedelya", in a poetry collection dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Victory, and in a book entitled "I and We".

The muddle over the double authorship is explained as a technical error. Orlov did not even know that his poem had been spoken in the film; his son found this out later, when sorting through things in the flat and discovering a book containing the published eight lines.

Nikolai Kurilov, who is also named as the author, cannot produce the original of the poem or any publication under his name. He says that he wrote it in his native language and did not keep the manuscript or typescript, not to mention that a handwritten interlinear crib by Yasnov is likewise unknown.

In all likelihood, the editors of "Kolobok" through an oversight attributed the poem wrongly to the Yukaghir poet in Yasnov's translation (perhaps this referred to a different poem), but the earlier publications of the lines under the name of the well-known poet Orlov, author of many popular children's verses among other things, indicate that the author is nonetheless he.

Although I have come across Kurilov still maintaining that the poem is his. But where is the proof, as they say?