The Limpid Stream (Russian: Светлый ручей, "Svetlyi ruchei", also translated as "The Bright Stream") is a ballet score, Op. 39, in 3 acts, 4 scenes, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich on the libretto by Adrian Piotrovsky and Fedor Lopukhov and choreography by Fedor Lopukhov, premiered in Leningrad (Mikhaylovsky Theatre) in 1935.

Original Name Svetlyi ruchei
Librettist Adrian Piotrovsky and Fedor Lopukhov
Date of composition 1935 (1934-1935)
Premiered June 1935 (Mikhaylovsky Theatre) in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Type Ballet
Catalogue Op. 39
Approx. duration 80 minutes
Instruments Orchestra
Arrangements Dmitri Shostakovitch: Suite from The Limpid Stream, Op. 39a
Autotranslations beta Dmitri Chostakovitch: The Limpid Stream, Op. 39
Dmitrij Šostakovič: The Limpid Stream, Op. 39
Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch: The Limpid Stream, Op. 39