Larisa Viktorovna Verbitskaya (Russian: Лари́са Ви́кторовна Верби́цкая; born November 30, 1959, Feodosia, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR[1]) is a Soviet and Russian announcer and TV presenter.

In the past, the host of the popular TV show Good Morning (1987—2014).

Mother, Elena Scherbatyuk, worked as a senior operating nurse.

Mother was brought up in an orphanage, in 1946 her parents died of starvation, there were seven children in the family.

After high school, she graduated from the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University in Chișinău.