The Voice () is a Russian singing competition television series broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, it has aired eight seasons and aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur). The competition is contested by aspiring singers, age 17 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, SMS text, and The Voice App.
The winners of the fourteen seasons have been: Dina Garipova, Sergey Volchkov, Alexandra Vorobyova, Hieromonk Fotiy, Darya Antonyuk, Selim Alakhyarov, Petr Zakharov, Asker Berbekov, Yana Gabbasova, Alexander Volkodav, Viktoria Solomakhina, Bogdan Shuvalov, David Sanikidze, and Elmira Karakhanova.
The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original panel featured Dima Bilan (seasons 1–3, 5–6, 10), Pelageya (seasons 1–3, 6, 10, 14-), Alexander Gradsky (seasons 1–4, 6, 10), and Leonid Agutin (seasons 1–3, 5–6, 10). The coaching panel for the most recent fourteen season featured Vladimir Presnyakov (seasons 11–12, 14-), Pelageya (seasons 1–3, 6, 10, 14-), Ildar Abdrazakov (14-) and ANNA ASTI (season 14-). Other coaches from previous seasons include Grigory Leps (seasons 4–5), Ani Lorak (season 7), Konstantin Meladze (seasons 7–8), Sergey Shnurov (seasons 7–9), Valeriy Syutkin (seasons 8–9), Zivert (season 12), Basta (seasons 4, 7, 9, 11, 13–), Polina Gagarina (seasons 4–5, 8–9, 11–), Anton Belyaev (seasons 11–13) and Hibla Gerzmava (season 13).
The Voice began airing on October 5, 2012, as an autumn-winter TV season program. The show proved to be a hit for Channel One. So far, the series has aired for fourteen seasons.
Conception An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice of Holland, Channel One announced the show under the name Голос (The Voice).
In each season, the winner receives ₽1,000,000 (approx. USD 16,000) and a record deal with Universal Music Group.
Selection process and format Blind auditions Each season begins with the "Blind Auditions," where coaches form their team of artists (12 artists in season 1 and since season 7, 14 artists in seasons 2–6) whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. (There was a rule in seasons 3–5 that coach who complete his/her team firstly can add to his/her team still one artist). The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during artists' performances; those interested in an artist press their button, which turns their chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "Я выбираю тебя" ("I Want You"). At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the only coach who turned around or selects his or her coach if more than one coach expresses interest. Eleventh season features block button which will prevent a coach from being chosen by the contestant. Battles In the "Battle Rounds," each coach pairs two of his or her team members to perform together, then chooses one to advance in the competition. In season 1, coaches were assisted by celebrity mentors. In the first season, coaches sit alongside their respective advisors in the battle stage. A new element was added in season two; coaches were given two "steals", allowing each coach to select two individuals who were eliminated during a battle round by another coach. However, since the seventh season (just like in the first season) each coach can't steal artists. Knockouts In the Knockout Rounds, a pair of artists within a team are selected to sing individual performances in succession. They are not told until a few minutes prior to their performances who their partner is. At the conclusion of the performances, coaches would decide which one of each pair gets to advance to the next round. Starting with season two each coach pairs three artists into one knockout with two contestants from the trio advance to the next round. However, since season 7 only one contestant from the trio advances to the Top 12. But the coaches were given one "steal" (just like in the previous seasons' Battles). Live shows In the final live performance phase of the competition, artists perform in weekly shows, where public voting and coaches' decision s narrow to a final group of artists and eventually declares a winner. In season one the coaches have the power to save one artist that had not received the public's vote in the Quarterfinal. In later seasons artists were saved by Votes' summa (Public's vote + Coach's vote). In deciding who moves on to the final four phase, the television audience and the coaches have equal say. With one team member remaining for each coach, the contestants compete against each other in the finale, where the outcome is decided solely by public vote. One contestant from each team would advance to the final four. Addition Since season 7, alongside the determining of the winner, television viewers vote for the Best coach using The Voice App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.
Coaches and presenter Coaches timeline Timeline of coaches Coach Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Dima Bilan colspan=3 colspan=4 Pelageya colspan=2 colspan=3 colspan=3 Alexander Gradsky † colspan=3 colspan=4 Leonid Agutin colspan=3 colspan=4 Basta colspan=3 colspan=2 Polina Gagarina colspan=3 colspan=2 Grigory Leps colspan=3 colspan=9 Ani Lorak colspan=6 colspan=7 Sergey Shnurov colspan=6 colspan=5 Konstantin Meladze colspan=6 colspan=6 Valeriy Syutkin colspan=7 colspan=5 Vladimir Presnyakov colspan=10 Anton Belyaev colspan=10 Zivert colspan=11 colspan=2 Hibla Gerzmava colspan=12 Ildar Abdrazakov colspan=13 ANNA ASTI colspan=13
Presenter
Timeline of presenter Presenter Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Dmitry Nagiev colspan=10 colspan=4 Yana Churikova colspan=10 colspan=4
Coaches and finalists Color key Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place
Warning: the following table presents a significant amount of different colors. Winners are in bold, the finalists in the finale are in normal size font, and the eliminated artists are in small font.
Season Coaches and their finalists 1 Dima Bilan Pelageya Alexander Gradsky Leonid Agutin Margarita PozoyanOlga Klyayn Elmira KalimullinaMaria Goya Dina GaripovaEvgeny Kungurov Anastasiya SpiridonovaEdvard Khacharyan 2 Gela GuraliaAndrey Tsvetkov Tina KuznetsovaAnton Belyaev Sergey VolchkovSharip Umkhanov Nargiz ZakirovaElena Maksimova 3 Alexander BonKsana Sergienko Yaroslav DronovAlisa Ignatyeva Alexandra VorobyovaValentina Biryukova Mariam MerabovaIntars Busulis 4 Basta Polina Gagarina Alexander Gradsky Grigory Leps Era KannMariya Eroyan Olga ZadonskayaIvan Dalmatov Mikhail OzerovElena Minina Hieromonk FotiyVitold Petrovsky 5 Dima Bilan Polina Gagarina Leonid Agutin Grigory Leps Kayrat PrimberdievOleg Kondrakov Sardor MilanoMikhail Zhitov Darya AntonyukKseniya Korobkova Alexander PanayotovDariya Stavrovich 6 Dima Bilan Pelageya Alexander Gradsky Leonid Agutin Yang GeDaniil Buranov Ladislav BubnarAnton Lavrentyev Selim AlakhyarovLora Gorbunova Timofey KopylovBrandon Stone 7 Basta Ani Lorak Sergey Shnurov Konstantin Meladze Shaen OganesyanAndrey Polyakov Amirkhan UmaevUku Suviste Rushana ValievaDaniel Rustamov Pyotr ZakharovSofia Tarasova 8 Valery Syutkin Polina Gagarina Sergey Shnurov Konstantin Meladze Arsen MukendiElimdar Seydosmanov Iv NabievAlana Chochieva Anton TokarevRagda Khanieva Asker BerbekovNurzhigit Subankulov 9 Basta Polina Gagarina Sergey Shnurov Valery Syutkin Vasily PasechnikElizaveta Puris Yana GabbasovaKirill Suslov Dmitry VengerovMariya Rusakova Oleg AkkuratovSuren Platonov 10 Dima Bilan Pelageya Alexander Gradsky Leonid Agutin Ernar SadirbaevIlkhom Tagirov Alexander VolkodavYulia Koshkina Alisher KarimovTatiana Kachurina Elina PanVyacheslav Yavkin 11 Vladimir Presnyakov Polina Gagarina Basta Anton Belyaev Elmira DivaevaMargarita Bagdasaryan Viktoria SolomakhinaNadezhda Proskurina Lyudmila SerebryakovaPavel Zibrov Irina SyshchikovaNikolay Shcherba 12 Vladimir Presnyakov Polina Gagarina Zivert Anton Belyaev Georgy RusskikhDarya Zvezdina Bogdan ShuvalovEvgeny Kurchich Alexey SulimaPolina Chusovitina Anastasiya SadkovskayaBeka Shoshiashvili 13 Basta Polina Gagarina Hibla Gerzmava Anton Belyaev Ilya AltukhovValery Ragulin Valentina YanshinaNatalya Sergienko David SanikidzeMatvey Kozin Dzambolat DulaevYonatan Tashchan 14 Vladimir Presnyakov Pelageya Ildar Abdrazakov ANNA ASTI Alexey SmirnovKseniya Aksyutik Alexander GuzkoValery Makarov Elmira KarakhanovaValeriya Petrova Arsen StepanyanYuliya Mazunova
Series overview
+ Teams color key Team Dima Bilan Team Pelageya Team Alexander Gradsky Team Leonid Agutin Team Basta Team Polina Gagarina
Team Grigory Leps Team Ani Lorak Team Sergey Shnurov Team Konstantin Meladze Team Valeriy Syutkin Team Vladimir Presnyakov
Team Anton Belyaev Team Zivert Team Hibla Gerzmava Team Ildar Abdrazakov Team ANNA ASTI
Season Year Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place Winning Coach Presenters Coaches (chair's order) 1 2 3 4 1 2012 Dina Garipova Elmira Kalimullina Anastasiya Spiridonova Margarita Pozoyan Alexander Gradsky Dmitry Nagiev Dima Pelageya Alexander Leonid 2 2013 Sergey Volchkov Nargiz Zakirova Gela Guralia Tina Kuznetsova 3 2014 Alexandra Vorobyova Yaroslav Dronov Alexander Bon Mariam Merabova Leonid Dima 4 2015 Hieromonk Fotiy Mikhail Ozerov Olga Zadonskaya Era Kann Grigory Leps Basta Polina Grigory 5 2016 Darya Antonyuk Alexander Panayotov Kayrat Primberdiev Sardor Milano Leonid Agutin Dima Leonid 6 2017 Selim Alakhyarov Timofey Kopylyov Ladislav Bubnar Yang Ge Alexander Gradsky Pelageya Alexander Leonid 7 2018-19 Pyotr Zakharov Amirkhan Umaev Rushana Valieva Shaen Oganesyan Konstantin Meladze Basta Ani Lorak Sergey Konstantin 8 2019-20 Asker Berbekov Anton Tokarev Iv Nabiev Arsen Mukendi Valeriy Polina 9 2020 Yana Gabbasova Oleg Akkuratov Dmitry Vengerov Vasily Pasechnik Polina Gagarina Basta Valeriy 10 2021 Alexander Volkodav Alisher Karimov Ernar Sadirbaev Elina Pan Pelageya Dima Pelageya Alexander Leonid 11 2023 Viktoriya Solomakhina Elmira Divaeva Irina Syshchikova Lyudmila Serebryakova Polina Gagarina Yana Churikova Vladimir Polina Basta Anton 12 2024 Bogdan Shuvalov Georgy Russkikh Alexey Sulima Anastasiya Sadkovskaya Zivert 13 2025 David Sanikidze Dzambolat Dulaev Ilya Altukhov Valentina Yanshina Hibla Gerzmava Basta Hibla 14 2026 Elmira Karakhanova Alexey Smirnov Alexander Guzko Arsen Stepanyan Ildar Abdrazakov Vladimir Pelageya Ildar ASTI
Coaches' results
+ Coaches' results Coach Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place Alexander Gradsky 4 times (1–3, 6) 2 times (4, 10) — — Polina Gagarina 3 times (9, 11–12) — 2 times (4, 8) 2 times (5, 13) Konstantin Meladze 2 times (7–8) — — — Pelageya Once (10) 2 times (1, 3) 2 times (6, 14) Once (2) Leonid Agutin Once (5) 2 times (2, 6) Once (1) 2 times (3, 10) Grigory Leps Once (4) Once (5) — — Hibla Gerzmava Once (13) — — — Ildar Abdrazakov Once (14) — — — Vladimir Presnyakov — 3 times (11–12, 14) — — Sergey Shnurov — Once (8) 2 times (7, 9) — Anton Belyaev — Once (13) Once (11) Once (12) Valeriy Syutkin — Once (9) — Once (8) Ani Lorak — Once (7) — — Dima Bilan — — 4 times (2–3, 5, 10) 2 times (1, 6) Basta — — Once (13) 4 times (4, 7, 9, 11) Zivert — — Once (12) — ANNA ASTI — — — Once (14)
Best coach