Klara Novikova

Klara Borisovna Novikova (; born Herzer , December 12, 1946, Kiev) is a Soviet and Russian pop artist and humorist. She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of Russia (1997), and a member of the Public Council of the Russian Jewish Congress.

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. 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 and settled in Moscow. ).

In 2022, a documentary film about Klara Novikova was made, ‘Klara Novikova. I'm not Aunt Sonya!’.

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 In 2013, Novikova was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent surgery, long treatment.