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3 unusual facts about Sofia Rotaru


Alexey Ekimyan

His songs were performed and recorded by prominent Soviet singers that include Lyudmila Zykina ("I don't need another love"), Iosif Kobzon, Lusine Zakaryan, Muslim Magomayev ("Save the friends"), Sofia Rotaru, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Ruben Matevosian ("Gharabaghtsin").

Treacherous Men

Treacherous Men (in Russian: Kovarnye Muzhiki) song was performed by Sofia Rotaru in the Russian musical Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro.

Zulfiyya Khanbabayeva

The same time she listened modern Russian music, singers like Alla Pugacheva and Sofia Rotaru.


Mashina Vremeni

The band composes the soundtrack to the popular movie Dusha, starring Sofia Rotaru watched by more than 57 million cinema-goers in the Soviet Union.


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Canadian Tour 1983

After the album was released the Soviet concert administration put in effect interdiction to Sofia Rotaru to leave the Soviet Union for 5 consecutive years due to her increasing popularity in the West.

Kray, miy ridniy kray

Among others, the song was released as a 1979 extended play (EP) Moy Kray (Мой край/My Homeland) by Melodiya, as a flexi by Krugozor No 7 in 1981 and was also included in numerous films and concert programmes, such as Vas priglashayet Sofia Rotaru of 1986.

Sky – It's Me

Sofia Rotaru performed this song at an open air concert in Kiev, in Independence Maidan Square in 2006 (the appearance of Sofia Rotaru was organised by Ukrainian TV channel Inter), at numerous solo concerts and tours during 2004-2007, in duet with Stas Pieha at Star Factory, as well as at Blue Light 2004 on Russian TV Channel "Russia".

Sofia Rotaru poet pesni Vladimira Ivasyuka

Sofia Rotaru was awarded for this album the grand prix of the Central Committee of Komsomol, which became the reference in the Ukrainian pop culture.