Alla Pugacheva

Alla Pugacheva is a Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress whose career made her one of the best-known figures in Soviet and post-Soviet popular music. Trained at the Ippolitov-Ivanov Musical College and GITIS, she worked across concert performance, musical theater, and film. She founded and led the Song Theatre studio in 1988, appeared in films including *The Woman Who Sings*, and received the title of People’s Artist of the USSR in 1991.