The Voice (Russian TV series)

The Voice; Голос
Genre	Music program
Created by	John de Mol; Roel van Velzen
Developed by	Talpa Content
Directed by	Ildous Kurmaleev; Andrey Sychev
Presented by	Dmitry Nagiev
Judges	Dima Bilan; Pelageya; Alexander Gradsky; Leonid Agutin; Basta; Polina Gagarina; Grigory Leps; Ani Lorak; Sergey Shnurov; Konstantin Meladze;
Opening theme	This Is The Voice
Country of origin	Russia
Original language(s)	Russian
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	101
Production
Producer(s)	Yury Aksyuta; Evgeniy Orlov; Andrey Sergeev; Larisa Sinelschikova (2012–2014); Ilya Krivitsky (2012–2014);
Production location(s)	Mosfilm, Moscow
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	120–150 minutes
Production company(s)	Channel One (2015–); Krasny Kvadrat (2012–2014);
Release
Original network	Channel One
Picture format	16:9
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	October 5, 2012 – present
Chronology
Followed by	The Voice Kids (Russia); The Voice Senior (Russia);
Related shows	The Voice; The Voice (U.S. TV series); The Voice UK; The A Factor; Glavnaya Stsena;
External links
	The Voice (Channel One)

The Voice (Russian: Голос) is a Russian singing competition television series broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, it has aired six seasons and aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) 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 six seasons have been: Dina Garipova, Sergey Volchkov, Alexandra Vorobyova, Hieromonk Fotiy, Darya Antonyuk, and Selim Alakhyarov.

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), Pelageya (seasons 1–3, and 6), Alexander Gradsky (seasons 1–4, and 6), and Leonid Agutin (seasons 1–3, 5–6); the panel for the current seventh season features Basta (seasons 4 and 7), Ani Lorak (season 7), Sergey Shnurov (season 7), and Konstantin Meladze (season 7). Other coaches from previous seasons include Polina Gagarina (seasons 4–5) and Grigory Leps (seasons 4–5).

The Voice began airing on October 5, 2012, as an autumn-winter TV season programme. The show proved to be a hit for Channel One. The series premiered its seventh season on October 12, 2018.

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 (≈$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 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.

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 are assisted by celebrity mentors. 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 cook.

Knockots

In the Knockout Rounds, three 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 partners are. The artists get to choose their own songs in this round, although they continue to get help and advice from their respective coaches. At the conclusion of the performances, coaches would decide which two of three artists get to advance to the next round.

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 with the determing of the winner, television viewers vote for the best season coach using The Voice App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.

Coaches and presenter

Coaches timeline

Timeline of coaches
Coach	Seasons
Coach	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Dima
Pelageya
Alexander
Leonid
Basta
Polina
Grigory
Ani
Sergey
Konstantin

Coaches gallery
Dima Bilan (2012–2014, 2016–2017)
Pelageya (2012–2014, 2017)
Alexander Gradsky (2012–2015, 2017)
Leonid Agutin (2012–2014, 2016–2017)
Basta (2015, 2018–)
Polina Gagarina (2015–2016)
Grigory Leps (2015–2016)
Ani Lorak (2018–)
Sergey Shnurov (2018–)
Konstantin Meladze (2018–)

Presenter

Timeline of presenter
Presenter	Seasons
Presenter	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Dmitry Nagiev

Presenter
Dmitry Nagiev

Series overview

Team Dima
Team Pelageya
Team Alexander
Team Leonid

Team Basta
Team Polina
Team Grigory

Team Ani
Team Sergey
Team Konstantin

Season	Premiere	Final	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Winning coach	Best season coach	Presenter	Coaches (chair's order)
Season	Premiere	Final	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Winning coach	Best season coach	Presenter	1	2	3	4
1	October 5, 2012	December 29, 2012	Dina Garipova	Elmira Kalimullina	Anastasia Spiridonova	Margarita Pozoyan	Alexander Gradsky	N/A	Dmitry Nagiev	Dima	Pelageya	Alexander	Leonid
2	September 6, 2013	December 27, 2013	Sergey Volchkov	Nargiz Zakirova	Gela Guralia	Tina Kuznetsova				Dima			Leonid
3	September 5, 2014	December 26, 2014	Alexandra Vorobyova	Yaroslav Dronov	Alexander Bon	Mariam Merabova				Leonid			Dima
4	September 4, 2015	December 25, 2015	Hieromonk Fotiy	Mikhail Ozerov	Olga Zadonskaya	Era Kann	Grigory Leps			Basta	Polina		Grigory
5	September 2, 2016	December 30, 2016	Darya Antonyuk	Alexander Panayotov	Kairat Primberdiev	Sardor Milano	Leonid Agutin			Dima	Polina	Leonid	Grigory
6	September 1, 2017	December 29, 2017	Selim Alakhyarov	Timofey Kopylov	Ladislav Bubnar	Yang Ge	Alexander Gradsky			Dima	Pelageya	Alexander	Leonid
7	October 12, 2018	2018	TBA							Basta	Ani	Sergey	Konstantin

Season synopses

Names in bold type indicate the winner of the season.

Season 1

The first season of The Voice premiered on October 5, 2012, and concluded on December 29. The coaching panel consisted of Dima Bilan, Pelageya, Alexander Gradsky, and Leonid Agutin. Dmitry Nagiev appeared as the host. Contestant auditions were held in Moscow in September 2012.

Each coach was allowed to advance three top to the live shows:

Team Dima	Team Pelageya	Team Alexander	Team Leonid
Margarita Pozoyan	Elmira Kalimullina	Dina Garipova	Anastasia Spiridonova
Olga Klein	Maria Goiya	Evgeniy Kungurov	Edvard Khacharyan
Yulia Tereschenko	Anri Gogniashvili	Polina Zizak	Artyom Kacharyan

Four finalists were advanced to the final round. Dina Garipova was announced as the winner of the season, while Elmira Kalimullina, Anastasia Spiridonova, and Margarita Pozoyan placed second, third, and fourth, respectively.

Season 2

Season two premiered on September 6, 2013 and concluded on December 27. All personnel returned from the previous season.