 In the mid-1980s Vladimir Matetsky started his cooperation with Sofia Rotaru with the song "Lavanda".Effect of a new stage in the development of pop music in the late 1980s was a group Laskovyi Mai and Mirage.Even in the early 1990s, when the country was going through a severe economic and political crisis, Russia and Moscow in particular, continue to be important producers of the Russian-language musical production.