Russya
Sign in to saveIrina Volodymyrivna Ossaoulenko (; born June 9, 1968), better known by her stage name Russya (), is a Ukrainian singer, and musician. She released her first song ''Don't stand by My Window'' in 1989. Russya had Top 10 hits on the Ukrainian charts in the late 1980s, and through the early and mid 1990s. She was a two-time winner in Best Female Artist of Ukraine in 1990 and 1991. Russya retired from recording pop music in 1997 but continued to tour (sometimes with her sister, Natasha Koroleva) until 1999. In 2007, she returned to recording with an album "The Best of Russya".
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kyiv
- Sibling
- Natasha Korolyova
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.russya.net
- Image
- Russya.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1968-06-09
- start of work period
- 1989-00-00
- Commons category
- Russya
- pseudonym
- Ірина Бистрик
- social media followers
- 15600
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- name in native language
- Ірина Володимирівна Осауленко
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Irina Volodymyrivna Ossaoulenko (; born June 9, 1968), better known by her stage name Russya (), is a Ukrainian singer, and musician. She released her first song ''Don't stand by My Window'' in 1989. Russya had Top 10 hits on the Ukrainian charts in the late 1980s, and through the early and mid 1990s. She was a two-time winner in Best Female Artist of Ukraine in 1990 and 1991. Russya retired from recording pop music in 1997 but continued to tour (sometimes with her sister, Natasha Koroleva) until 1999. In 2007, she returned to recording with an album "The Best of Russya".
==Discography== 1989 – "The Fortuneteller" 1989 – "Christmas Eve" 1990 – "Forgive me, mommy" 1991 – "Cinderella" 1991 – "Russya" 1991 - "Little Happiness" 1992 – "Russya's Greatest Hits" 1994 – "Kyiv Girl" 1994 – "Cheremshyna" 1997 – "My American Guy" 1998 - "White Lace" 2007 – "The Best of Russya" 2009 – "Small Presents" 2012 – "Christmas Presents" 2012 – "Greatest Hits -top 40" 2017 – "Memories of the future"
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