Mondrus Larisa Izrailevna (15 November 1943, Dzhambul, Kazakhstan) - singer.

Larisa Mondrus was a star of the stage and television in the USSR in the 1960s. In 1962, she graduated from the Riga Music College. In the 1960s, she worked in the Riga Variety Orchestra and Eddie Rosner's orchestra. She performed songs for the films Give Me the Complaint Book (the song Good Evening), Smile at Your Neighbour (Ancient Words, Between Heaven and Earth), At Home (Autumn on the Beach), The Investigation Continues (Eyes), Songs of the Sea (I'm a Girl, It's Not My Fault), The Guardian (White Steamboat), Gentlemen of Fortune (Wake Up and Sing). In the 1970s, another anti-Semitic campaign began in the USSR, Larisa Mondrus was taken off the air, and she was denied the opportunity to tour abroad. In 1973, she and her husband Egil Schwartz left for West Germany and settled in Munich. By 1977, she had become a popular singer in Europe. At the age of 38, she gave birth to a son. She visited Russia for the first time since her departure in 2001.