The fifth season of the Russian reality talent show The Voice premiered on September 2, 2016, on Channel One with Polina Gagarina and Grigory Leps returned as coaches alongside Dima Bilan and Leonid Agutin, who returned after a one-season break. Dmitry Nagiev returned as the show's presenter. On December 30, 2016, Darya Antonyuk was crowned the winner of The Voice and Leonid Agutin became the winning coach for the first time ever. With Darya's win, the twenty-year-old became the youngest winner in the show's history.
Coaches and presenter
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Coaches Top 57 artistsDima Bilan Kairat Primberdiev Oleg Kondrakov Oksana Kazakova Tornike Kvitatiani Oleg Sidorov Valeria Gekhner Alena Pol Yan Mayers Yury Yushkevich Sardor Milano Vladi Blaiberg Polina Kuzovkova Aleksey Romanov Veriko Tukhashvili Aurika Mgoi Ekaterina Gordon Polina Gagarina Sardor Milano Mikhail Zhitov Tatiana Shamanina Ekaterina Kovskaya Adelina Moiseeva Hensley Poynen Romchi Aminata Savadogo Aleksandra Gomel Ilya Khvostov Luiza Imangulova Bazhana Zhivotkova Yulia Litosh Charlie Armstrong Aslan Ahmadov Elena Ekimova Leonid Agutin Darya Antonyuk Ksenia Korobkova Vadim Kapustin Vladi Blaiberg Elena Alekseeva Nikole Knaus Willie Key Vladislav Vengley Boris Sheshera Adelina Moiseeva Kairat Primberdiev Alla Goloviznina Darya Melnikova Hagba Brothers Katerina Balykbaeva Aleksandra Kuznetsova Andrey Protsenko Grigory Leps Aleksandr Panayotov Daria Stavrovich Niko Neman Luiza Imangulova Ilya Khvostov Kirill Babiev Sergey Ruchkin Yuliana Melkumyan Evgenia Dravina Elena Alekseeva Oleg Kondrakov Alla Omelyuta Marina Makenza Olga Abdullina Vasilina Krasnoslobodtseva Vasiliy Urievskiy
Blind auditions A new feature this season was special episodes of the Blinds. They included all the performances from the previous episode as well as the best performances of those artists who didn't pass the Blind auditions and whose performances were not shown in the previous episode.
Colour key Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button, despite the lack of places in his/her team Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button, despite the lack of places in his/her team, and artist picked a coach's team Artist defaulted to a coach's team Artist picked a coach's team Artist eliminated with no coach pressing their button
Episode 1 (Sep. 2) The winners of previous seasons performed "Мелодия" and the coaches performed "Gimme All Your Lovin'" at the start of the show. Order Artist Age Origin Song Coach's and artist's choices Bilan Gagarina Agutin Leps 1 Yuliana Melkumyan 22 Saratov, Saratov oblast "Путь" 2 Tornike Kvitatiani 24 Moscow "Wicked Game" — — 3 Vasilina Krasnoslobodtseva 28 Balashikha, Moscow oblast "Лирическая песенка" — — — 4 Petr Novikov 38 Moscow "Bumara" — — — — 5 Ksenia Korobkova 27 Chernitsyno, Kursk oblast "I'm Your Baby Tonight" 6 Meriem Gerasimenko 22 Minsk, Belarus "Вьюга" — — — — 7 Yury Yushkevich 19 Saint Petersburg "Ave Maria" — — — 8 Yulia Litosh 37 Sochi, Krasnodar krai "I Can't Stand the Rain" — — — 9 Alexandr Onischenko 23 Lugansk, Ukraine "Пьяное солнце" — — — — 10 Alla Goloviznina 25 Perm, Perm krai "Старый отель" — — 11 Yan Maers 28 Minsk, Belarus "Starlight" —
Episode 2 (Sep. 9) Order Artist Age Origin Song Coach's and artist's choices Bilan Gagarina Agutin Leps 1 Vladimir Kumarin 37 Tambov, Tambov oblast "Мой друг лучше всех играет блюз" — — — — 2 Darya Antonyuk 20 Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk krai "Stand Up for Love" 3 Valeria Gekhner 45 Saint Petersburg "Моя цыганская" — 4 Aleksey Romanov 29 Tyumen, Tyumen oblast "Rise like a Phoenix" — — — 5 Oksana Andreeva 40 Vlasikha, Moscow oblast "Соловей" — — — — 6 Aminata Savadogo 23 Riga, Latvia "Я тебя не прощу никогда" — — 7 Erick Zenkov 26 Kronshtadt, Saint Petersburg "Ain't Nobody" — — — — 8 Alexandra Gomel 27 Krasnodar, Krasnodar krai "What Love Can Be" — 9 Marianna Popova 29 Moscow "Созрела" — — — — 10 Kirill Babiev 26 Rostov-on-Don, Rostov oblast "Numb" — — 11 Darya Melnikova 18 Izhevsk, Udmurtia "Намалюю тобi зори" 12 Ilya Khvostov 26 Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast "Feel" — — —
Episode 2.1 (Sep. 10) Order Artist Age Origin Song 1 Sergey Vorobyev 28 Saransk, Mordovia "Вечная любовь" 2 Valeria Nekrasova 23 Kazan, Tatarstan "В кейптаунском порту" 3 Ilya Kuznetsov 27 Saint Petersburg "This Love" 4 Dinara Kairova 30 Almaty, Kazakhstan "Hurt"
Episode 3 (Sep. 16) Note: Alexander Gordon, a famous journalist, made a special performance with the song "In the Death Car". No coach turned for him. Order Artist Age Origin Song Coach's and artist's choices Bilan Gagarina Agutin Leps 1 Oksana Kazakova 34 Moscow "Карточный домик" 2 Vladislav Vengley 21 Saint Petersburg "Uptown Funk" — 3 Nikole Knaus 21 Moscow "New York, New York" — 4 Karen Arutyunyan 36 Saratov, Saratov oblast "Дорожная" — — — — 5 Irina Klimova 49 Moscow "Там нет меня" — — — — 6 Willie Key 36 Holguín, Cuba "La Noche Oscura" — — 7 Veriko Tukhashvilli 17 Moscow "Одно и то же" — — — 8 Mikhail Stovbun 23 Kyiv, Ukraine "Happy" — — — — 9 Elena Ekimova 28 Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk oblast "7 Seconds" — — 11 Alla Omelyuta 26 Moscow "Мой первый день" — — — 12 Sergey Ruchkin 41 Izyum, Ukraine "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" —
Episode 3.1 (Sep. 17) Order Artist Age Origin Song 1 Mikhail Davydov 56 Moscow "Liberta" 2 Ilya Bordo 29 Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk oblast "Верни мне музыку" 3 Maria Sherer 29 Moscow "I Wanna Be Loved by You" 4 Anna Mart 27 Kirov, Kirov oblast "Душа"
Episode 4 (Sep. 23) Order Artist Age Origin Song Coach's and artist's choices Bilan Gagarina Agutin Leps 1 Hagba Brothers (Temur & Denis Khagba) 35/29 Gudauta, Georgia "We're in This Love Together" — 2 Valeria Paskar' 32 Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad oblast "До свидания, мама!" — — — — 3 Alena Ter-Osipova 21 Moscow "Candyman" — — — — 4 Kairat Primberdiev 31 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan "It's a Man's World" — — 5 Polina Kuzovkova 27 Saint Petersburg / Ko Pha-ngan, Thailand "Останусь" — — 6 Viktor Burko 39 Korolev, Moscow oblast "It's a Sin" — — — — 7 Evgenia Dravina 19 Moscow "Ты снишься мне" — — — 8 Alexander Panayotov 32 Moscow "All by Myself" 9 Luiza Imangulova 31 Sukaevka, Samara oblast "Колечушко" — — — 10 Vasiliy Urievskiy 32 Saratov, Saratov oblast "Make It Rain" — — — 11 Nikita Savelev 22 Krasnaya Zvezda, Kurgan oblast "Прощай" — — — — 12 Vadim Kapustin 43 Barnaul, Altai krai / Los Angeles, United States "All of Me" —
Episode 4.1 (Sep. 24) Order Artist Age Origin Song 1 Sergey Dusik 34 Yugorsk, Yugra "Чорнобрiвцы" 2 Karina Karenyan 32 Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk oblast "Highway to Hell" 3 Dina Shtern 33 Moscow "Streets of New York" 4 Irina Surina 50 Moscow "Звать любовь не надо"
Episode 5 (Sep. 30) Note: Maxim Galkin, a famous comedian and presenter, made a special performance with "The Magic Flute"'s aria "Soll ich dich, Teurer, nicht mehr sehn?". Dima and Polina turned for him. Order Artist Age Origin Song Coach's and artist's choices Bilan Gagarina Agutin Leps 1 Egor Kovaikov 35 Riga, Latvia "Bamboléo" — — — — 2 Ekaterina Gordon 35 Moscow "Забирай рай" — — — 3 Charlie Armstrong 48 Bridgetown, Barbados "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" — — — 4 Alexandra Kuznetsova 28 Saint Petersburg "Молчи и обнимай меня крепче" — 5 Ekaterina Viktorova 22 Orsk, Orenburg Oblast "Шиншилла" — — — — 6 Oleg Kondrakov 31 Dzerzhinsk, Niznhy Novgorod oblast "Billie Jean" — 7 Alena Pol' 29 Surgut, Yugra "Apres moi" / "Февраль" — — 8 Aslan Ahmadov 43 Baku, Azerbaijan "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" — — 9 Andrey Vesenin 28 Barnaul, Altai krai "Чёрный ворон" — — — — 10 Vladi Blaiberg 33 Tel Aviv, Israel "All in Love Is Fair" — — — 11 Daria Stavrovich 30 Moscow "Zombie"
Episode 5.1 (Oct. 1) Order Artist Age Origin Song 1 Lana Rey 27 Zhitomir, Ukraine "Come Together" 2 Vladimir Idiatullin 21 Taganrog, Rostov oblast "Часы" 3 Tinatin Didebashvili 44 Tbilisi, Georgia "Напрасные слова" 4 Ekaterina Tretyakova 25 Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk oblast "Жёлтые ботинки"
Episode 6 (Oct. 14) Note: Inga Lepsveridze, Grigory Leps' daughter, made a special performance with the song "Not About Angels". No coach turned for her. Order Artist Age Origin Song Coach's and artist's choices Bilan Gagarina Agutin Leps 1 Mikhail Zhitov 25 Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk oblast "Moody's Mood for Love" 2 Natalya Kirillova 30 Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhniy Novgorod oblast "Песня Анюты" — — — — 3 Hensley Poinen 27 Quatre Bornes, Mauritius "Wake Me Up" — — 4 Vladislav Rusakov 22 Barnaul, Altai krai "Как я тебя ждал" — — — — 5 Niko Neman 33 Sochi, Krasnodar krai "Ария Калафа" — 6 Ksenia Milyaeva 27 Yalta, Ukraine "С тобой" — — — — 7 Romchi (Roman Bagadzhiyan) 19 Rostov-on-Don, Rostov oblast "All of Me" — 8 Aurika Mgoi 21 Izhevsk, Udmurtia "Crazy" — — — 9 Tatiana Shamanina 35 Nizhnevartovsk, Yugra "Нелюбовь" — 10 Oleg Sidorov 22 Krasnoznamensk, Moscow oblast "От боли я пою" — — — 11 Marina Makenza 32 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine "Play Dead" — —
Episode 6.1 (Oct. 8) Order Artist Age Origin Song 1 Ksenia Kondratova 23 Zarechye, Moscow oblast "Нежность" 2 Anton Stogniev 28 Surgut, Yugra "Wonderwall" 3 Anastasia Malashkevich 23 Minsk, Belarus "I'm Outta Love" 4 Rada Vaschenko 28 Riga, Latvia / Germany "Солнышко"
Episode 7 (Oct. 14) Note: Nikolay Baskov, a famous singer, made a special performance with the song "Il mondo". Dima and Polina turned for him. Order Artist Age Origin Song Coach's and artist's choices Bilan Gagarina Agutin Leps 1 Anastasia Danilova 26 Sochi, Krasnodar krai "One Day" — — — — 2 Ekaterina Kovskaya 32 Saint Petersburg "Ты скажи" — — 3 Boris Sheshera 21 Kumertau, Bashkortostan "Someone Tell Me Why" — 4 Elena Alekseeva 37 Velikie Luki, Pskov oblast "Roxanne" — 5 Sofia Beria 20 Divnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk krai "Не для меня" — — — — 6 Sardor Milano 24 Tashkent, Uzbekistan "Vo Che Sapete" 7 Adelina Moiseeva 20 Lugansk, Ukraine "You Are So Beautiful" rowspan=5 — 8 Bazhana Zhivotkova 32 Kyiv, Ukraine "Ой, чий то кiнь стоïть" — — 9 Katerina Balykbaeva 47 Tiraspol, Moldova / Yalta, Ukraine "Hijo de la luna" rowspan=3 — 10 Olga Abdullina 32 Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast "Dr. Feelgood" — 11 Andrey Protsenko 54 Tashkent, Uzbekistan / Moscow "Change the World" rowspan=1
Episode 7.1 (Oct. 15) Order Artist Age Origin Song 1 Aleksey Petrukhin 32 Astana, Kazakhstan "Ах, ты, степь широкая" 2 Kristina Pronina 32 Baku, Azerbaijan "Euphoria" 3 Valeria Filippova 23 Omsk, Omsk oblast "Take Me to Church" 4 Alesya Chernookaya 24 Tyumen, Tyumen oblast "Маршрутка"
The Battles The Battles round started with episode 8 and ended with episode 11 (broadcast on 21, 28 October 2016, on 4, 11 November 2016). The coaches can steal two losing artists from another coach. Contestants who win their battle or are stolen by another coach will advance to the Knockout rounds. Colour key Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Knockouts Artist lost the Battle but was stolen by another coach and advanced to the Knockouts Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated