Veronika Dolina was born in Moscow. He farther was Arkady Fisher, an air- craft designer, her mother was a doctor, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Ludmila Dolina. Her maternal grandfather was famous neurophysiologist Aleksander O. Dolin. In 1979, shegraduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute as a French language teacher. Dolina started to write songs and perform them in 1971. She wrote the poetry for most of her songs, but she also has songs that set the poems of Yunna Morits to music, as well as some songs that were written in coope- ration with Alexander Sukhanov. Dolina's first record was released in 1986. In 1987, Dolina became a member ofthe Moscow drama committee. That sameyear, the first book with Dolina's poetry was published in Paris. In 1988 she visited Warsaw, Po- land for the first time, together with other Russian bards, giving a concert in Hybrydy concert hall, and was applauded for her interpretations. She performed several songs, including "My house si flying",,"There was another Widow", and many more. Performed in Russia, CIS and Baltic countries, near and far abroad. With concerts she traveled to France, Holland, Great Britain, Australia, Japan, Belgium, Luxembourg. Heregularly performs in Israel, the USA and Canada. In Moscow, Veronika Dolina performs in a variety of halls, among which the Great Hall of the Polytechnic Institute, the School of Modern Play theater and the bard-cafe "Grouse's Nest" can be distinguished.