Singer Irina Dyukova spoke about this on the social network VKontakte.

“Today at 07:05, the heart of Hera Witke, a great poet, a person very close to me, my ex-husband and a great friend in life, stopped beating,” she wrote.

Witke died at the age of 53.

Earlier, Russian singer Oleg Gazmanov announced that Mikhail Serebryakov, a 97-year-old participant in the musical television show Voice 60+, had died.