Monetochka

About Monetochka

Monetochka (lit. 'Little Coin') is the stage name of Elizaveta Andreevna Gyrdymova (born 1 June 1998), a Russian singer-songwriter. Elizaveta Gyrdymova was born on 1 June 1998 in Yekaterinburg. From childhood, Gyrdymova enjoyed writing poetry and published her work on the site Stihi.ru as a teenager. In 2014, she entered tenth grade at the Specialized Educational and Scientific Center of the Ural Federal University. In 2016, she enrolled in correspondence courses in film production at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. She chose the school because of her love of classic cinema. Since September 2016, Gyrdymova has continued her studies, and her first internship was at the ETV channel in her native Yekaterinburg, where she released joint projects with the poet Alexandra Aksyonova. She then worked for some time as a producer at ETV. In January 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Gyrdymova in the list of foreign agents.