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Klara Novikova
2010
Born (1946-12-12) December 12, 1946 (age 78)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
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Klara Borisovna Novikova (Template:Lang-ru; born Herzer (Template:Lang-ru), December 12, 1946, Kiev) is a Soviet and Russian pop artist and humorist. She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1992),[1] People's Artist of Russia (1997),[2] and a member of the Public Council of the Russian Jewish Congress.[3]

Biography

Klara Novikova was born December 12, 1946 in Kiev, into the family of war veteran and director of a shoe store in Podil, Boris Herzer, and housewive Polina Weinstein.[4] She graduated from the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Art and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.

In 1974, she became the winner of the All-Union Competition of Entertainers; chairman of the jury was Arkady Raikin. In 1976, she went to work at Mosconcert[5] and settled in Moscow.[4]

Since 1992, Klara Novikova has worked at the Moscow Theater of Variety Miniatures, headed by Mikhail Zhvanetsky.

In 1995, she won the Arkady Raikin Cup at the MORE SMEHA International Festival in Riga.

In 2008, a monument to Aunt Sonia was planned to be unveiled on the Yalta embankment near the Yubileiny Palace. However, the monument was not erected and remained in the studio of sculptors Igor Lysenko and Ella Lysenko.

In 2010, together with the Gesher Theater, Klara Novikova first tried her hand as a dramatic actress, playing the lead female role in the play The Late Love (directed by Yevgeny Aryeh based on the play by Valery Muharyamov In the Shadow of the Vineyard, which was based on the story by Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer[6]).

Personal life

  • First husband – drummer Victor Novikov, a fellow student at the circus school.
  • Second husband – sports journalist Yuri Leonidovich Zerchaninov (1931-2009), head of the department of journalism at the magazine Yunost.
    • Daughter – Maria Zerchaninova (born 1976), a journalist who teaches at the University of Theater Critics [7][8]

References

  1. ^ Почётное звание присвоено указом президента России № 1651 от 28 декабря 1992 года
  2. ^ Почётное звание присвоено указом президента России № 795 от 19 ноября 1997 года Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Структура Российского еврейского конгресса". Archived from the original on 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  4. ^ a b Клара Новикова вяжет носки // Gazeta.ua
  5. ^ Mosconcert, Novikova Klara
  6. ^ «Поздняя любовь»
  7. ^ Клара Новикова / Klara Novikova: Я всего достигла не благодаря, а вопреки
  8. ^ Клара Новикова привезла дочь в роддом

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