[3] Klara Novikova was born December 12, 1946, in Kiev, into the family of war veteran and director of a shoe store in Podil, Boris Herzer, and housewive Polina Weinstein.

In 1974, she became the winner of the All-Union Competition of Entertainers; chairman of the jury was Arkady Raikin.

[4] Since 1992, Klara Novikova has worked at the Moscow Theater of Variety Miniatures, headed by Mikhail Zhvanetsky.

In 1995, she won the Arkady Raikin Cup at the MORE SMEHA International Festival in Riga.

In 2008, a monument to Aunt Sonia was planned to be unveiled on the Yalta embankment near the Yubileiny Palace.