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'''Larisa Israelevna Mondrus''' ({{lang-ru|Лари́са Изра́илевна Мо́ндрус}}, {{lang-lv|Larisa Mondrusa}}, {{lang-de|Larissa Mondrus}}; born 15 November 1943) is a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] singer ([[soprano]]), who was popular in the USSR in the 1960s. In 1973 she emigrated to West Germany.<ref name="Estrada v Rossii" /><ref>{{cite book|publisher=G. Westermann|year=1978|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JQaAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Deswegen+Star+im+Ostblock+im+sowjetischen+Schallplattenkatalog%22|title=Westermanns Monatshefte, Band 1978,Ausgaben 1-6|quote=... der westlichen Welt (USA knapp fünf Prozent). Mit rund vierzig Prozent Klassikanteil dürfte der DDR-Markt um hundert Prozent überzogen sein. Deswegen Star im Ostblock Im sowjetischen Schallplattenkatalog, dessen Pop-Teil immerhin 14 000 Titel aufweist, wurde lange Zeit die Sängerin Larissa Mondrus als Numero 1 aufgeführt. Inzwischen verließ sie die UdSSR zusammen mit ihrem Mann Egil Schwarz (er war Chef des Rigaer Tanzorchesters in der Lettischen Sowjetrepublik).}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Mondrus graduated from school and in 1962 started singing in the Riga Variety Orchestra. Soon she was noticed and moved to Moscow, where joined the [[Eddie Rosner]] Jazz Orchestra. In 1964 she started performing and recording with the orchestra that was directed by her husband, Egil Schwarz. Her first success was the song "Ticket to Childhood" ("Билет в детство"). From 1968 to 1972 she was a soloist with the Mosconcert concert organization (a Moscow association that organized regular concerts for its artists). One of her most popular songs was "Siniy Lyon" ("Синий лён"), composed by [[Raimonds Pauls]]. She was one of the first singers in the Soviet Union to do a dance while singing, something that was not approved of back then, in the 1960s.<ref name="Estrada v Rossii" />

In 1971, at the whim of [[Sergey Georgyevich Lapin|S. Lapin]], Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), Larisa Mondrus, along with several other singers of Jewish descent, was de facto barred from appearing on television.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zn.ua/3000/3680/64143/|title=Старые песни о личном. Вадим Мулерман: "Кобзон всегда старался меня вытеснить как конкурента. Теперь на эстраде только одна Пугачева его не боится..."|work=Зеркало Недели № 35 (714) 20 — 26 сентября 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920163045/http://www.zn.ua/3000/3680/64143/|archivedate=2008-09-20|accessdate=2014-10-13}}<br />{{cite book|editor=E. D. Uvarova|chapter=МУЛЕРМАН Вадим|title=Эстрада в России. XX век. Энциклопедия|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cSwa5A9uecC&pg=PA413|location=Moscow|publisher=OLMA Media Group|year=2004|page=91|isbn=9785224044627}}</ref> Even though she continued to tour with Egil Schwartz's Orchestra a lot, they finally decided to emigrate and in 1973 emigrated to the [[Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]],<ref name="Estrada v Rossii">{{cite book|editor=E. D. Uvarova|chapter=МОНДРУС (Шварц) Лариса Израиловна|title=Эстрада в России. XX век. Энциклопедия|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cSwa5A9uecC&pg=PA404&dq=Мондрус+Лариса|location=Moscow|publisher=OLMA Media Group|year=2004|page=404|isbn=9785224044627}}</ref> where she continued her career as a singer, recording several albums for [[Polydor Records|Polydor]]. In 1982, upon the birth of her son, Loren, she retired from the music industry and has recently became a grandmother to twins, a boy and a girl (b. 2015)

==Selected filmography==
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* ''[[Give me a complaints book]]'' (Дайте жалобную книгу, 1965)

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
* {{IMDb name|0597808}}

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[[Category:1943 births]]
[[Category:Soviet female singers]]
[[Category:German female singers]]
[[Category:Soviet emigrants to Germany]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:20th-century German musicians]]
[[Category:People from Taraz]]

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