Klavdiya Shulzhenko

Biography

Klavdiya Ivanovna Shulzhenko (Russian: Кла́вдия Ива́новна Шульже́нко , Ukrainian: Клавдія Іванівна Шульженко; March 24 [O.S. March 11] 1906, Kharkiv – June 17, 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet popular female singer and actress. Shulzhenko started singing with jazz and pop bands in the late 1920s. She rose to fame in the late 1930s with her…