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from rotaru , anatoliy evdokimenko left to right : alexander leonenko , sofia don backy , tino rossi 1971 -- 1990 melodiya bmg music entertainment -lrb- germany -rrb- -lrb- ussr -rrb- krugozor -lrb- ussr -rrb- sony chervona ruta -lrb- ensemble -rrb-
 yes sofia rotaru anatoliy evdokimenko alexander leonenko valeriy lyakhov group_or_band pop , europop , euro disco , folk chervonaruta2.jpg ussr chernivtsi , ukraine/ussr chervona ruta
chervona ruta -lrb- ensemble -rrb-

chervona ruta was a ukrainian music group that performed between 1971 and 1990 .
chervona ruta group was created in 1971 by anatoliy evdokimenko with the chernivtsi philharmonic specially for the accompaniment of sofia rotaru .
the founding members of the group were part of the pop orchestra of the chernivtsi university .
for a long time , outside performances of the group by itself at occasional tours , chervona ruta was overshadowed by the people 's artist of ukraine , people 's artist of moldova , people 's artist of ussr - sofia rotaru .
after sofia rotaru , other widely popular artists as arkadiy khoralov and meritorious artist of moldova anastasia lazariuc started their career with chervona ruta .
in 1981 , the band was awarded grand-prix for the high artistic level of performance at the singers ' competition in yalta .
the soloist of the band , sofia rotaru , became the laureate of the ixth world festival of youth and students in 1971 .
in the same year the band was cast with sofia rotaru in the movie called `` chervona ruta '' and in 1975 - in `` pesnya vsegda s nami '' .
the band has wide fan communities both in the former ussr and abroad internationally .
successful tours took place with participation of sofia rotaru in bulgaria , czechoslovakia , hungary , poland , gdr , finland , west berlin .
polish theatre critic observer andrzej wołczkowski wrote :
