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Soviet pop singer. Born and raised in Belarus. In the early 70s, he won the Song of the Year festival several times. The singer’s unusually soft, velvety voice won the hearts of women of that time. In 1974 he received the title of Honored Artist of the Belarusian SSR.

- Soviet pop singer of the late 60s and early 70s. The first performer of such hits as “No need to frown Lada”, “A coward does not play hockey”. Unfortunately, in 1973 he fell out of favor with the government for singing comic Jewish songs.

- Soviet pop singer and actor from the Georgian SSR. The singer's unusually soft and low voice immediately fell in love with his listeners. The whole country recognized Vakhtang Kikabidze after the release of the film “Mimino” in 1977. “My years are my wealth”, “Along the airfield” and other songs by Kikabidze are still very popular today.

- Soviet pop singer, the dawn of whose creativity occurred at the end of the 70s. Fame came after the song “Star Song of the Sky” at a competition for young talents. “Golden Fish”, “I Dream of My City” and other songs were beloved by the people. Evgeniy Vladimirovich still performs at concerts and records new songs.

- A talented composer and magnificent pop singer of the late 70s and early 80s. Since the early seventies he worked as a composer and created many names on the stage with his songs, but in 1974 he decided to try himself in a solo career. The listeners immediately fell in love with his very pleasant voice. His songs “Alyonushka”, “Apple Trees in Blossom”, “Cornflower Eyes” and many others are recognizable from the first chords.

- Soviet pop singer. Living legend. Deputy of the State Duma of several convocations. Master of patriotic song. It has been on TV screens for more than 50 years and is well known to everyone. Fame came after the song “And there is a girl alone in our yard.”

- Popular Soviet pop singer. The singer gained popularity in the early 70s. “Farewell”, “Tender Bear”, “Gravity of the Earth”, “Parental House” and many more songs are dearly loved by many people. Lev Valeryanovich leads an active lifestyle, still sings and records new songs.

- Soviet pop singer of Azerbaijani origin. In the 70s, Muslim had no equal in popularity. Television and radio constantly played famous songs performed by Magomayev. “Evening on the roadstead”, “Blue Taiga”, “Beauty Queen”, “Ferris Wheel” and many other songs were very popular then, and are popular now.

- Soviet pop singer. He began his singing career in the late 70s. The song "I'm dancing with you" was heard on all dance floors in the country in 1979. Of Nikolai’s most famous songs, “The Drum Was Bad,” “Bird of Happiness,” and “Crimson Ringing” stand out.

- Soviet pop and opera singer, Russian Pavarotti. The singer's very bright and strong voice was a godsend for composers. Many already well-known hits performed by Renat became popular again. Renat Ibragimov still performs at concerts and records albums.

- Soviet pop singer. The peak of its first popularity occurred in 1975-1977. Broadcasts on television and radio and the universal love of the Ministry of Culture did a disservice to the singer. The spirit of Narcissism has matured in the singer. In 1977, a quarrel between a concert administrator and a singer ended in a fight. Sergei was sent to prison. The 90s marked a new peak in popularity.

- Soviet composer and singer. People's favorite artist. Its popularity continues to this day. And fame came in the early 70s after the song “You are no more beautiful.” Yuri and his group "Good fellows" by the mid-70s were one of the leading groups of those years. The songs “I’ll Walk Along the Apricot Road”, “Believe in a Dream”, “The Roof of Your House” and many others are still listened to with pleasure. Yuri Mikhailovich still sings on the stage and composes new songs.

- Popular Soviet pop singer of the 70s. The song “The Dark Mounds Are Sleeping” in 1969 became a ticket to the all-Union stage. The singer's repertoire mainly consists of patriotic songs and songs about war. Thanks to his assertive character, he achieved membership in the USSR Ministry of Culture.

- Soviet pop and opera singer of the 70s. The singer's repertoire included both patriotic songs and modern ones. There are a lot of songs on space themes. “What a guy he was” about Gagarin, “At a Nameless Height”, “I Wish You” and other songs performed by Yuri Gulyaev will be an excellent gift for grandparents.

- Soviet pop and opera singer. In the 70s he was extremely popular among his contemporaries. He had a special voice timbre that was different from other performers. “Song about a friend”, “Tro-lo-lo”, “Blue Cities”, “At the edge of the forest” and dozens of other songs performed by Eduard Anatolyevich will be popular for a long time.

Jaak Yoala (Yak Yola)

Jaak Yoala (Yak Yola)- Soviet pop singer from the Estonian SSR. Gained popularity at the very end of the 70s after the song “Love Chooses Us,” sounded in the film on June 31. A very interesting accent immediately distinguished the singer from other performers. The singer’s most famous hits are “I draw, I draw you,” “Phone call,” “I’ll marry her anyway.”

The eighties were a very interesting period for Russian show business. Soviet foundations gradually ceased to operate, and extraordinary and talented young men - singers of the 80s, Russians - appeared on the stage. The list can be continued almost endlessly. It is also interesting that real masters and representatives of the new stage often met on the same stage. Also during these years there was a flourishing of rock culture, which had previously been within strict limits.

Legends of the stage

The founders of modern pop music were the singers of the 70s and 80s (Russian). Their list includes well-known names:

1. Vladimir Presnyakov (senior) in the late 70s made a dizzying career in the Gems group. In 1987, he left the big stage to help his son take his first steps in show business.
2. In the 80s, Valery Leontyev dressed more modestly, but he was already famous thanks to his collaboration with Raymond Pauls. At the end of the decade, sales of Valery's sound carriers broke all records.
3. The peak of Lev Leshchenko’s career was the closing of the Olympics in Moscow. Not many singers of the 80s (Russian), the list of which is almost limitless, can boast of such an honor.

Other worthy performers of that time can be included in the same list. Joseph Davydovich Kobzon, for example, by the eighties had already become a vocal teacher and was releasing records with recordings of retro songs, but the peak of his career came in the seventies.

Forgotten Artists

Some Russian singers of the 80s, a list of which will be given below, are now unreasonably forgotten:

1. In the late eighties, the USSR was shocked by a group in which a pupil of the orphanage, Yuri Shatunov, performed. His colleague Andrei Razin competently promoted the project, using rumors, doubles and other techniques. Many years later, Yuri was never able to repeat his former success.
2. Viktor Saltykov performed as part of the Electroclub group in the eighties, but he is more often known as the father of Irina Saltykova.
3. Sergei Minaev became the founder of discos and the club movement; today few people remember him.

These performers were consigned to oblivion only because of the rapidly changing stage of that time. The Russian singers of the 80s did not expect such a fate. The list of forgotten stars of the 90s will be much longer, since many then performed one hit and disappeared. Now stars of the 80s and 90s often perform at nostalgic concerts dedicated to that time.

Representatives of rock clubs

The singers of the 80s (Russian) are not all forgotten. The list of men who performed in the genre of rock music consists only of cult personalities who are still active on stage:

1. Vladimir Kuzmin began his career in the late 70s in the Carnival group, but reached the peak of popularity in the 80s with the Dynamik group. He began to be recognized in every home in 1986, when he performed in a duet with Alla Pugacheva. In 2017, he presented the album “Roker-3. Closing of the season."
2. Valery Kipelov began his career in the group “Leisya Pesnya” in 1980. When the team did not pass the state program and closed, he was invited to the Aria group. Since 1985, he performed there. In 2017, he performed at “Invasion” with his own group “Kipelov”, which was created in 2002, when Valery left his previous team due to disagreements.
3. Yuri Shevchuk became famous thanks to his hits “Rain”, “Autumn”, “That’s all...”. Since 1980 he has been the leader of the DDT group. He is distinguished by opposition views and does not accept any government. In 2017, he became the headliner of the “Invasion” festival, performed for 2.5 hours and was well received by the public.
4. The following singers of the 80-90s became an unusual phenomenon for the stage. The list of “Russian cult rockers of the 80s” is completed by two performers: the Samoilov brothers - Vadim and Gleb. Not long ago, their creative paths diverged, Gleb became the leader of the Matrixx group and in 2017 will delight the public with a new album, and Vadim is the President's Plenipotentiary Envoy. He regularly performs at Russian venues and has participated in concerts in Syria and Donbass. In recent times, the Saimolovs performed in the style of “rock decadence”, which is why they differ from those listed above.

The eighties became a golden age for Russian rock. Most of the idols of even modern fans of this genre came from this period. The list of singers can include Grebenshchikov, Shklyarsky, Makarevich, Kinchev and many others.

Lost Talents

The listed lists cannot be considered complete, since they do not contain two surnames - Tsoi and Talkov. Probably, these singers would be more popular than others, because now their songs are remembered with special warmth. For many fans of their work, it is sad that both performers died tragically at the height of their careers. Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident, and Igor Talkov was shot dead behind the scenes of a concert hall in the early nineties.

Tsoi was known as the herald of perestroika. His songs became iconic for many; indeed, the youth of the USSR wanted “change.” Igor Talkov was also a singer of perestroika; his songs were performed during the GKChP putsch. They were more lyrical than Victor's. Talkov’s most famous songs are “Chistye Prudy” and “I’ll be back.”

Soviet pop stars were very different from today's ones. They did without limousines and riders, new albums appeared noticeably less frequently, but they received even more attention from fans than now. We talk about the most popular and beloved singers of the USSR.

Lidiya Ruslanova

The career of the most famous performer of Russian folk songs in the USSR began at an unfortunate time for this - at the height of the Civil War. Ruslanova first appeared on stage in May 1917, and then gave a huge number of concerts in front of various units of the Red Army in the South and West of the former Russian Empire. In 1921, she and her second husband moved to Moscow.


The sophisticated metropolitan audience, however, did not immediately accept the singer. In the twenties, Ruslanova performed mainly in the provinces, visiting the Don many times. Nevertheless, the amazing voice and very soulful intonation with which she sang songs gradually paved the way for her. Real fame came to her after meeting Mikhail Garkavi. The very popular entertainer became not only her husband and partner, but also a kind of producer. He negotiated concerts, secured records, and ensured discussion in the press.
There were no special statistics, but judging by the memoirs of contemporaries, Ruslanova was one of the most popular singers in the thirties. Huge circulation of records, radio, concerts in the most remote corners of the country. Even her arrest in 1948, together with her fourth husband, General Kryukov, did not reduce popular love. Immediately after Stalin's death, she was released and within a month she gave several concerts, which were accompanied by a frenzied excitement.

Klavdiya Shulzhenko

Shulzhenko walked to fame for a long time, persistently and consistently. In her youth, she dreamed of theater, but in her native Kharkov she received only small roles. But everyone noted that she sings wonderfully. Then in 1928 the singer left for Leningrad. There she was accepted into the Lengosstrada, which after the war became the Lenconcert, and performs as a soloist in the Skomorovsky jazz orchestra - the second jazz group in St. Petersburg and in the country in general after Utesov's Tea-Jazz.
Shulzhenko did not become famous right away, only in 1936 her first recordings appeared, but by the end of the thirties she literally fell in love with the Leningrad public, and thanks to records and tours she became famous throughout the Union. The vocalist even decided, as they would say now, on a solo career and, together with her husband, created her own jazz orchestra in 1940. And then the war began.
Shulzhenko served in the troops almost throughout the war. In the first year of the blockade alone, she gave about 500 concerts on the front line. It was during such a performance that a young lieutenant approached her and offered his version of the song “Blue Handkerchief.” Thanks to her and her other front-line songs, the singer became a real megastar of the Soviet stage: records were released in millions of copies, she was invited to perform throughout the country, and her songs were repeatedly used in films.

Edita Piekha

In the mid-fifties, Piekha made a small revolution on the Soviet stage. Before this, singers preferred to stand on stage, barely moving. A girl from Poland, who came to Leningrad to study, behaved at the microphone like a star of completely banned and “ideologically harmful cafes.” It was a real shock for the Soviet public when the vocalist took the microphone off the stand, went down into the hall and talked to the audience.


Piekha's first performance with the Bronevitsky ensemble on New Year's Eve from 1955 to 1956 created a sensation in Leningrad. Offers for concerts simply poured in like from a cornucopia. The singer even had to transfer to distance learning. But all this concerned mainly Northern Palmyra and the surrounding area; all-Union fame came after the Festival of Youth and Students in 1957. He became the impetus for many stars of the USSR in the sixties, and Piekha herself, together with the ensemble, which by that time was called “Friendship,” won a gold medal.
Piekha's popularity was so great that many Soviet citizens suddenly decided to study the language of her homeland - for a long time, half of her songs were in Polish, and she herself sang with a slight accent, which only added to her attractiveness. Over time, she received Soviet citizenship, many official songs appeared in the repertoire, and what seemed revolutionary became outdated. But still, Piekha’s era lasted almost until the mid-seventies.

Lyudmila Zykina

It’s hard to imagine now, but Zykina was brought to the stage by chance. The Muscovite, who grew up in a simple and poor family, loved to sing, but believed that it was unrealistic for her to even get close to the world of creativity. Instead, she worked at a factory, in a bakery, and in a sewing workshop, until her friends persuaded her to audition for the Pyatnitsky choir. Despite the huge competition, in 1947 she was accepted into this illustrious group.
Without a musical education, it was extremely difficult for her at first. Her biography of that period includes a lot of study, her voice that disappeared after the death of her mother, and a long journey to become a soloist. The first time she was really noticed was in 1957 during the very Moscow youth festival where she became a laureate. And her rise to the top of popularity began in 1960, when she won the All-Russian competition of pop artists and moved to the Mosconcert.


There were no charts in the USSR, so it is difficult to say the scale of Zykina’s popularity. She was treated kindly by the official authorities, became an Honored Artist of the RSFSR at the age of 34, and received state awards and bonuses. But it is worth noting that in the sixties and seventies the singer very actively toured the USSR and Europe and each time gathered full houses. This could not be achieved only by ordering Furtseva, with whom Zykina was friends.

Maya Kristalinskaya

The brilliant star of the sixties is still remembered today, and the songs to which she gave a start to life are still heard in various versions. Kristalinskaya, like Piekha, is a rare case of how amateur girls were able to shoot. Of course, many musicians in the USSR came from there, but still usually, before becoming popular performers, they were tempered and polished in professional groups.


Kristalinskaya came to the stage straight from the design bureau. The then aspiring composer Yuri Saulsky invited her to his orchestra to participate in the Festival of Youth and Students. The performance turned out to be so brilliant that they became laureates and, most importantly, the public really liked them. Then their program was simply trampled in the press, the ensemble was blacklisted, but the singer already believed in herself and her star. In 1958, she was organized a real tour of Transcaucasia, which was an unprecedented success, and she plunged headlong into Soviet show business.
Unfortunately, Kristalinskaya’s fate was tragic. She was able to defeat cancer and return to the stage, but she could not defeat the ban from art officials. At the beginning, her concerts were sold out, songs were played on the radio, which immediately became hits, Melodiya immediately released them as separate singles, and her voice was heard in films. But at some point she was banned from being shown on television, then it became almost impossible to get permission for a concert in large cities, as a result she had to travel to perform in villages.

Anna German

The Polish citizen, a descendant of Russian Germans and Dutch, who became one of the brightest Soviet stars, certainly attracts attention. Moreover, in her biography there was a place for both true love and tragedy. Suffice it to say that she had to start her path to fame twice. First in 1963 after second place at the Polish festival in Sopot, and then in 1970 after a car accident, three years of treatment and rehabilitation. And in 1972, she returned to touring again and in Moscow for the first time recorded a song in Russian, which instantly turned the singer into everyone’s favorite in the USSR.
“Nadezhda” by Pakhmutova and Dobronravov became almost the main hit of the seventies, and the melody and lyrics remain one of the most recognizable today. Edita Piekha sang it first, Magomaev and many other vocalists performed with her, but it was German’s performance that became canonical. Then there were several more hits (“When the Gardens Bloomed,” “Echo of Love,” “White Bird Cherry”), which brought her to the forefront on the Soviet stage.


In the Soviet Union, Herman organized essentially two big tours, which lasted two years each, released records with millions of copies, and performed at the best venues with full houses. For example, six thousand people came to the concert at the Palace of Congress. Unfortunately, in the late seventies she was diagnosed with cancer. She was unable to overcome the disease this time.

Valentina Tolkunova

Initially, Tolkunova followed the standard path of a Soviet professional musician. She studied at the Institute of Culture in Moscow, passed a competition for the Saulsky Orchestra, who became her first husband, and at the same time graduated from the Gnessin School. There were many tours ahead and the gradual conquest of his place on the stage. If not for two factors: the advent of television and the attention of the poet Lev Oshanin.
Oshanin saw the singer during one of her performances and asked her to perform the lyrical song “Ah, Natasha” at his creative evening, which was shown on central TV. Tolkunova, whom almost no one in the audience knew, was called for an encore twice. This was not included in the recording, but still, the next day after the broadcast, she woke up as a star.
Then all the doors literally opened for Tolkunova. She was regularly invited to the “Song of the Year”, government concerts, and was entrusted with singing the farewell song of the Moscow Olympics. Spectators immediately nicknamed her the “Silver Voice of Russia,” and venerable composers bombarded her with potential hits. The singer recorded only about 500 songs, many of which were sung by the whole country.

Alla Pugacheva

The future Diva went into music and entered a music school after the eighth grade in 1964. And at the age of sixteen she went on her first tour, at seventeen she met Vladimir Shainsky and began to form her song repertoire. Then, in her manner of performance and intonation, she was a little reminiscent of Kristalinskaya. After college, the choir conductor chose the path of a vocalist, performed, appeared on TV, radio, went to Lipetsk for a short time, changed several jobs and ensembles.
The turning point for her was 1974 and her participation in the V All-Union Competition of Variety Artists, when after a scandal she was finally given the third prize. It was, in general, a professional event and ordinary spectators hardly noticed it, but Pavel Slobodkin drew attention to Pugacheva, who invited her to VIA “Jolly Fellows”. There, at first she generally sang along behind the scenes, but then she received her songs. And at that moment, at the highest level, it was decided to send her to the Golden Orpheus festival. From there she returned in triumph.
It happened immediately after returning from Bulgaria, when a month later the festival was shown on TV. She came with two compositions, “Harlekino” and “I Dream of You,” the Melodiya company added “Let’s Sit and Eat” to them and released the EP. The total circulation was 14 million. A crazy number even by the standards of the Soviet Union.


Pugacheva was enthusiastically received everywhere in the USSR and the countries of the socialist bloc, she fulfilled a kind of grandmaster standard of Soviet show business - she successfully held a solo concert in Luzhniki. And in 1979, she prepared the program “The Woman Who Sings” and started filming the film of the same name, which eventually attracted almost 55 million viewers.

Sofia Rotaru

In the USSR, ordinary people loved to compare Pugacheva and Rotaru, there were rumors about terrible jealousy between these two singers. Be that as it may, in fact, Rotaru began her path to fame a little earlier, and the first results, it would seem, appeared when Pugacheva was still looking for herself.
If we talk about all-Union love, then everything is more complicated. For a long time, Rotaru positioned herself as a performer of Ukrainian and Moldavian folk songs. The Soviet authorities lovingly cultivated this trend, but popularity among the broad masses had declined by that time.


The first revolution occurred in 1971 after Rotaru met with composer Vladimir Ivasyuk, who invited her to perform the song that became her calling card - “Chervona Ruta”. That's when her folk-pop period, as it would later be called, began. Having essentially opened this genre to the Soviet public, it reached the all-Union level. As they say in such cases, the career developed progressively. And at that moment “Pugacheva began” on the stage.
In principle, some other performer was satisfied with what he had. After all, the girl, who grew up in a small village, was part of the pool of the best Soviet performers. But not Rotaru. Or not her husband, who led the strategy.
Gradually she reduced folk songs in her repertoire, and in the late eighties she completely began experimenting with genres. This began with the song “My Motherland” in 1977, but it became especially pronounced in the eighties, when Rotaru, following Pugacheva, took part in the creation of two musical films: “Where Are You Love” (1980) and the semi-biographical “Soul” (1981), where she, together with “Time Machine,” performed Makarevich’s songs. This almost immediately allowed her to share popular love with Pugacheva.

Laima Vaikule

While two Soviet pop stars were sorting things out and experimenting, another star suddenly appeared on the stage. The story of Laima Vaikule most closely resembles the story of Cinderella. It is still unknown who became the prince or the fairy godmother for the little-known 31-year-old singer from the variety show “Juras Perle” in Jurmala. In the most common version, it is believed that the songwriter Ilya Reznik held the magic wand in his hands.


At that moment, he and the composer Raymond Pauls parted ways with Alla Pugacheva in creative matters, and they decided to find a new application for their talents. They found Vaikule, whom Pauls had known since the early seventies, prepared her repertoire and helped her get on TV. At that moment, the ideological pressure had noticeably weakened and it was much easier to do this. First, with the song “Bonfire,” she appeared in “Song of the Year,” and then in 1987 she appeared on the recording of Pauls’s evening, where she performed “It’s not evening yet.”
The composition, which was written a very long time ago and was abandoned by that time by many singers, led by Pugacheva herself, instantly made Vaikule very popular, several very high-profile tours followed, and a record was released. It is not known how her career would have developed further, but by that time perestroika had begun, the USSR was bursting at the seams, and with it the era of the Soviet stage ended.

Soviet singer of Polish origin. Peak of popularity 50s - 60s. Our grandparents still love her song “Lilies of the Valley.” During her creative career, she sang songs based on poems by many famous poets, including deep patriotic works.

- Soviet singer of the 60s of Jewish origin. She gained fame thanks to the song for the movie "Thirst". The first performer of the famous song "Tenderness". The singer has recorded many songs with jazz orchestras. At the height of her creative career, Maya was diagnosed with throat cancer, which completely canceled out further concert activities.

- Soviet singer of the 60s - 70s. After the international festival in Sopot she gained fame in the USSR. Her songs “Sunny Circle” and “Black Cat” are still covered by modern pop stars. In the early 70s, Tamara was blacklisted as performers, which canceled out her further solo career.

- Well, who doesn’t know Lyudmila Markovna? And she started her career as a singer. Lyudochka's fame came after the premiere of the film "Carnival Night". After singing the song “5 Minutes,” the whole country fell in love with this wasp-waisted girl. Lyudmila Gurchenko sang songs, acted in films and played in the theater until her death.

- Soviet singer of Polish origin. The singer's unusual accent attracted everyone with its unique charm. Edita Stanislavna literally burst onto the stage with the song “Red Bus” in a foreign language (for the first time). During her long creative career, Edita Stanislavna recorded a large number of songs that are extremely popular among the people.

- Soviet singer and actress of the 60s - 70s. The country's party leaders were literally in love with the singer. Her beauty and unique singing style played an important role in the success of the gifted singer. Olga's popularity came with Anatoly Badkhen's jazz orchestra.

- Leading Soviet singer of the 60s. “The unquenchable light of Moscow windows”, “It’s good that there is something in the world” was performed for the first time by Irina with her permanent ensemble “Spring”. The singer’s creative activity spanned 35 years, during which many popular and favorite songs were recorded.