Chervona Ruta was a

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music group that performed between 1971 and 1990. Chervona Ruta group was created in 1971 by

Anatoliy Evdokimenko Anatoliy Kyrylovych Yevdokymenko ( uk, Анато́лій Кири́лович Євдоки́менко; 20 January 1942 – 23 October 2002) was a Ukrainian musician, director of Chervona Ruta. He is a People's Artist of Ukraine, husband of Sof ...

with the Chernivtsi Philharmonic specially for the

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Sofia Rotaru Sofiia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru (born 7 August 1947), known as Sofia Rotaru ( uk, Софія Михайлівна Ротару ; russian: link=no, Софи́я Миха́йловна Рота́ру; ro, Sofia Rotaru), is a former Ukrainia ...

. The founding members of the group were part of the pop orchestra of the

Chernivtsi University Chernivtsi National University (full name Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, uk, Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича) is a public university in the City o ...

. For a long time, outside performances of the group by itself at occasional tours, Chervona Ruta was overshadowed by the

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. After Sofia Rotaru, other widely popular artists as

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and Meritorious Artist of Moldova

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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

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. 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 ''Pisnia zavzhdy z namy'' ( uk, Пісня завжди з нами) is a 1975 Ukrainian musical film, produced by Viktor Storozhenko starring Sofia Rotaru in the main role, as well as Ukrainian Smerichka vocal-instrumental band. The movie feat ...

''. The band has wide fan communities both in the former

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and abroad internationally. Successful tours took place with participation of

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, GDR,

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. Polish theatre critic observer Andrzej Wołczkowski wrote:

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Vocal instrumental ensemble "Chervona Ruta" (Crimean State Philharmonics)ВІА "Червона рута" на "Черемшині"
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