Career
She is probably most known for the song "Stoyat Devchonki" ("Стоят девчонки", composed by Alexander Kolker) and for her version of "School Waltz" ("Школьный вальс"). The song that brought her fame was "Kachaet, Kachaet.." ("Качает, качает") that she recorded for the theater play Idu na Grozu ("Иду на грозу") in 1963. Maria Pakhomenko owed much of her popularity to songs written by Kolker (who is probably most famous for writing the song "Karelia" for Lidia Klement).
Some of the titles he wrote for her are "Опять плывут куда-то корабли", "Печальная", "Красивые слова", "Стоят девчонки", "Чудо-кони".
Among the songs by leading Soviet composers of which she was the original performer are "Lyubov Ostanetsya" ("Love Will Stay", by Valery Gavrilin), "Nenaglyadnyy Moy" (by Aleksandra Pakhmutova), "Muzhchiny" ("Mens", by Eduard Kolmanovsky), "Razgovory" ("Conversations", by Eduard Khanok), "Vals pri Svechakh" (by Oscar Feltsman), et cetera In 1968, she sold 2,000,000 discs.