Irina Vitalyevna Ponarovskaya (Russian: Ирина Витальевна Понаровская; born 12 March 1953 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian singer, film actress and sex symbol between the 1980s and the 1990s. Irina Ponarovskaya was born on March 12, 1953 in Leningrad in a family of musicians. Father – Vitaliy Borisovich Ponarovsky, mother – German Russian Nina Nikolayevna Arnoldi. At the age of six, she started playing on the piano. Read more on