The Voice (Russian TV series) season 1

The first season of the Russian TV show The Voice premiered on October 5, 2012, on Channel One. Dmitry Nagiev became the show's presenter. Dima Bilan, Pelageya, Alexander Gradsky and Leonid Agutin became the coach's in the premiere season.

The Voice
Season 1
Presented by	Dmitry Nagiev
Coaches	Dima Bilan Pelageya Alexander Gradsky Leonid Agutin
Winner	Dina Garipova
Winning coach	Alexander Gradsky
Runner-up	Elmira Kalimullina
Release
Original network	Channel One
Original release	5 October (2012-10-05) – 29 December 2012 (2012-12-29)
Season chronology

Dina Garipova was announced the winner on December 29, 2012, marking Alexander Gradsky's first win as a coach.

Coaches and presenter

• The Voice season 1 coaching panel and presenter
• 
  Dima Bilan
• 
  Pelageya
• 
  Alexander Gradsky
• 
  Leonid Agutin
• 
  Dmitry Nagiev

Teams

Colour key

Winner   Runner-up   Third place   Fourth place

Eliminated in the Semifinal   Eliminated in the Quarterfinal   Eliminated in the Knockout rounds   Eliminated in the Battle rounds

Coaches	Top 48 artists
Dima Bilan	Margarita Pozoyan	Olga Klyain	Yuliya Tereshchenko	Anastasiya Kashnikova	Alex Malinovsky	Anastasiya Chevazhevskaya
	Natalya Terekhova	Kseniya Gerasimova	Valeriya Akhatova	Alina Bashkina	Anzhelika Frolova & Viktoriya Kuzmina	Artyom Demishev
Pelageya	Elmira Kalimullina	Mariya Goya	Anri Gogniashvili	Roman Vtyurin	Achi Purtseladze	Nikita Pozdnyakov
	Gayana Zakharova	Anna Zolotova	Mari Karne	Diana Garifullina	Oksana Petrova	Juliana Strangelove
Alexander Gradsky	Dina Garipova	Evgeny Kungurov	Polina Zizak	Ilya Yudichev	Pavel Pushkin	Svetlana Saydieva
	Valeriya Grinyuk	Metodie Bujor	Darya Dubovitskaya	Pavel Tarasov	Artur Vasilyev	Soslan Kulumbekov
Leonid Agutin	Anastasiya Spiridonova	Edvard Khacharyan	Artyom Kacharyan	Ideliya Mukhametzyanova	Alexander Pozdnyakov	Sevara Nazarkhan
	Zlat Khabibullin	Vlad Chuprov	Alisa Geliss	Liya Sarkisyan	Alexandra Bartashevich	Sofya Avazashvili

Blind auditions

Color key

✔	Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button
	Artist defaulted to this coach's team
	Artist elected to join this coach's team
	Artist eliminated with no coach pressing his or her "I WANT YOU" button

The coaches performed "Let it be" at the start of the show.

Episode	Order	Artist	Age	Origin	Song	Coach's and artist's choices
						Bilan	Pelageya	Gradsky	Agutin
Episode 1 (October 5, 2012)	1	Yuliya Tereshchenko	22	Moscow	"Мир без любимого"	✔	—	—	✔
	2	Vyacheslav Olhovsky	50	Grozny	"Я люблю тебя до слёз"	—	—	—	—
	3	Anna Zolotova	20	Samara	"Aria of Delilah"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	4	Mark Yusim	24	Glazov, Udmurtia	"This Love"	—	—	—	—
	5	Kseniya Gerasimova	19	Ivanovo	"Валенки"	✔	—	—	—
	6	Edvard Khacharyan	28	Sochi, Krasnodar Krai	"Historia de un Amor"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	7	Veronika Glebova	23	Omsk	"Чудесная страна"	—	—	—	—
	8	Mariya Goya	24	Kyiv, Ukraine	"Simply the Best"	—	✔	—	—
	9	Polina Zizak	19	Moscow	"At Last"	—	—	✔	—
	10	Gleb Matveychuk	31	Moscow	"До свидания, мама!"	—	—	—	—
	11	Alexandra Bartashevich	23	Brest, Belarus	"I Feel Good"	✔	✔	—	✔
	12	Roman Vtyurin	23	Nizhny Novgorod	"Скажите, девушки"	—	✔	—	—
Episode 2 (October 12, 2012)	1	Evgeny Kungurov	29	Moscow	"Разговор со счастьем"	—	—	✔	—
	2	Olga Klyain	25	Ekaterinburg	"I Believe I Can Fly"	✔	—	✔	✔
	3	Pavel Tarasov	39	Nizhny Novgorod	"Беловежская пуща"	✔	—	✔	—
	4	Marina Matveeva	26	Moscow	"My All"	—	—	—	—
	5	Anri Gogniashvili	21	Tbilisi, Georgia	"You Can Leave Your Hat On"	✔	✔	—	—
	6	Alina Bashkina	19	Donetsk, Ukraine	"Эхо любви"	✔	—	—	—
	7	Elena Orkina	25	Rostov-on-Don	"Milord"	—	—	—	—
	8	Vlada Chuprova	26	Saint Petersburg	"Mercy"	✔	✔	—	✔
	9	Konstantin Shustarev	47	Sestroretsk, Saint Petersburg	"Вьюга"	—	—	—	—
	10	Dina Garifullina	19	Ufa	"Strong Enough"	✔	✔	✔	—
	11	Andrey Maksimov	17	Saint Petersburg	"Луч солнца золотого"	—	—	—	—
	12	Mari Karne	21	Moscow	"Summertime"	✔	✔	—	—
Episode 3 (October 19, 2012)	1	Anastasiya Spiridonova	27	Velikie Luki, Pskov Oblast	"Simply the Best"	✔	—	✔	✔
	2	Filipp Cherevko	26	Noyabrsk, YaNAO	"Парень чернокожий"	—	—	—	—
	3	Sevara Nazarkhan	35	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	"Je t'aime"	✔	✔	—	✔
	4	Artyom Kacharyan	23	Vladikavkaz	"Hello"	—	—	—	✔
	5	Darya Letichevskaya	23	Moscow	"Останусь"	—	—	—	—
	6	Oleg Mitrinyuk	32	Kostroma	"Я вижу свет"	—	—	—	—
	7	Svetlana Saydieva	28	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	"I Will Always Love You"	✔	—	✔	—
	8	Anastasiya Kashnikova	35	Moscow	"Мир без любимого"	✔	—	—	—
	9	Artyom Demishev	26	Moscow	"Feeling Good"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	10	Elmira Kalimullina	24	Kazan	"Колыбельная"	—	✔	—	—
	11	Renata Baykova	25	Ufa	"At Last"	—	—	—	—
	12	Artur Vasilyev	25	Saint Petersburg	"Con te partirò"	—	—	✔	—
Episode 4 (October 26, 2012)
	1	Fyodor Rytikov	49	Zelenograd, Moscow	"Скажите, девушки"	—	—	—	—
	2	Margarita Pozoyan	27	Moscow	"I Will Always Love You"	✔	—	✔	✔
	3	Kristina Konovalova	23	Moscow	"Симона"	—	—	—	—
	4	Soslan Kulumbekov	35	Tskhinvali, Georgia	"Historia de un Amor"	—	—	✔	—
	5	Oksana Mukhina	32	Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria	"Woman in Love"	—	—	—	—
	6	Dina Garipova	21	Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan	"А напоследок я скажу"	—	—	✔	—
	7	Oksana Petrova	28	Magadan	"Я ― то, что надо"	✔	✔	—	—
	8	Achi Purtseladze	33	Tbilisi, Georgia	"Summertime"	—	✔	—	✔
	9	Anna-Nika Vakar	18	Beltsy, Moldova	"Улетаю"	—	—	—	—
	10	Sofya Avazashvili	23	Cheboksary	"Domino"	—	—	—	✔
	11	Ilya Yudichev	37	Moscow	"Caruso"	—	—	✔	—
	12	Ideliya Mukhametzyanova	21	Ulyanovsk	"Let It Be"	✔	✔	✔	✔
Episode 5 (November 4, 2012)	1	Alexander Pozdnyakov	19	Moscow	"You Can Leave Your Hat On"	✔	✔	—	✔
	2	Nikita Pozdnyakov	27	Moscow	"Unchain My Heart"	—	✔	—	—
	3	Olga Kovaleva	20	Ekaterinburg	"Чудесная страна"	—	—	—	—
	4	Natalya Terekhova	26	Tula	"My All"	✔	—	—	—
	5	Valeriya Grinyuk	22	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	"Останусь"	—	—	✔	—
	6	Vitaly Milushev	26	Krymsk, Krasnodar Krai	"Актриса"	—	—	—	—
	7	Veronika Shramko	19	Krasnodar	"Domino"	—	—	—	—
	8	Pavel Pushkin	38	Vladivostok	"Aria of Delilah from the opera "Samson and Delilah"	✔	✔	✔	—
	9	Gayana Zakharova	20	Krasnodar	"Колыбельная"	—	✔	—	—
	10	Ilya Pichko	18	Shakhty, Rostov Oblast	"Это здорово"	—	—	—	—
	11	Liya Sarkisyan	18	Fedoskino, Moscow Oblast	"At Last"	—	—	—	✔
	12	Anzhelika Frolova & Viktoriya Kuzmina (Sugarmammas)	N/A	Surgut, Yugra / Moscow	"Simply the Best"	✔	✔	✔	✔
Episode 6 (November 9, 2012)	1	Zlat Khabibullin	26	Ufa	"I Feel Good"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	2	Ekaterina Pechkurova	25	Saint Petersburg	"Любовь настала"	—	—	—	—
	3	Darya Dubovitskaya	25	Moscow	"I Will Always Love You"	—	—	✔	—
	4	Lev Elgardt	29	Tver	"Я ― то, что надо"	—	—	—	—
	5	Valeriya Akhatova	26	Nadym, YaNAO	"Domino"	✔	—	—	—
	6	Alex Malinovsky	26	Magadan	"Беловежская пуща"	✔	—	—	—
	7	Anastasiya Ivan	23	Kyiv, Ukraine	"Je t'aime"	—	—	—	—
	8	Anastasiya Chevazhevskaya	24	Moscow	"Мир без любимого"	✔	—	✔	✔
	9	Alexey Ismailov	24	Novosibirsk	"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"	Team full	—	—	—
	10	Alisa Geliss	20	Kaliningrad	"This Love"		—	—	✔
	11	Metodie Bujor	38	Saint Petersburg	"Dicitencello vuie"		—	✔	Team full
	12	Juliana Strangelove	27	Moscow	"You Can Leave Your Hat On"		✔	Team full

The Battles

The Battles round started with episode 7 and ended with episode 9. Contestants who win their battle would advance to the Knockout rounds.

Colour key

	Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Knockouts
	Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated

Episode	Coach	Order	Winner	Song	Loser
Episode 7 (November 16, 2012)	Leonid Agutin	1	Anastasiya Spiridonova	"Бросай"	Zlat Khabibullin
	Alexander Gradsky	2	Polina Zizak	"Proud Mary"	Darya Dubovitskaya
	Pelageya	3	Achi Purtseladze	"Мой друг"	Oksana Petrova
	Dima Bilan	4	Anastasiya Chevazhevskaya	"Vivo per lei"	Artyom Demishev
	Leonid Agutin	5	Alexander Pozdnyakov	"Crazy"	Alexandra Bartashevich
	Alexander Gradsky	6	Ilya Yudichev	"O sole mio"	Pavel Tarasov
	Dima Bilan	7	Olga Klyain	"Ain't Nobody"	Valeriya Akhatova
	Pelageya	8	Mariya Goya	"The Diva Dance"	Anna Zolotova
Episode 8 (November 23, 2012)	Pelageya	1	Nikita Pozdnyakov	"Moscow Calling"	Juliana Strangelove
	Alexander Gradsky	2	Dina Garipova	"When You Believe"	Valeriya Grinyuk
	Leonid Agutin	3	Edvard Khacharyan	"Я тебя люблю"	Vlada Chuprova
	Dima Bilan	4	Margarita Pozoyan	"I'm Every Woman"	Natalya Terekhova
	Pelageya	5	Roman Vtyurin	"Я тебя никогда не забуду"	Dina Garifullina
	Leonid Agutin	6	Artyom Kacharyan	"Georgia on My Mind"	Alisa Geliss
	Dima Bilan	7	Anastasiya Kashnikova	"Кому? Зачем?"	Alina Bashkina
	Alexander Gradsky	8	Pavel Pushkin	"Con te partiro"	Artur Vasilyev
Episode 9 (November 30, 2012)	Alexander Gradsky	1	Evgeny Kungurov	"Синяя вечность"	Metodie Bujor
	Pelageya	2	Anri Gogniashvili	"Без бою"	Mari Karne
	Leonid Agutin	3	Ideliya Mukhametzyanova	"Blame It on the Boogie"	Liya Sarkisyan
	Dima Bilan	4	Yuliya Tereshchenko	"Бумажный змей"	Kseniya Gerasimova
	Alexander Gradsky	5	Svetlana Saydieva	"L'Italiano"	Soslan Kulumbekov
	Pelageya	6	Elmira Kalimullina	"Lady Marmalade"	Gayana Zakharova
	Dima Bilan	7	Alex Malinovsky	"Whenever I Say Your Name"	Anzhelika Frolova & Viktoriya Kuzmina
	Leonid Agutin	8	Sevara Nazarkhan	"Run to You"	Sofya Avazashvili

The Knockouts

The Knockouts round was broadcast on 7 December 2012. The top 12 contestants moved on to the Quarterfinal.

Colour key

	Artist won the Knockout and advanced to the Quarterfinal
	Artist lost the Knockout and was eliminated

Episode	Coach	Order	Song	Artists		Song
				Winner	Loser
Episode 10 (December 7, 2012)	Leonid Agutin	1	"Hurt"	Anastasiya Spiridonova	Ideliya Mukhametzyanova	"Cabaret"
	Dima Bilan	2	"Остров любви"	Margarita Pozoyan	Anastasiya Kashnikova	"Улетай на крыльях ветра"
	Alexander Gradsky	3	"Angel"	Dina Garipova	Ilya Yudichev	"Who Wants to Live Forever"
	Pelageya	4	"Habanera"	Elmira Kalimullina	Roman Vtyurin	"Влюблённый солдат"
	Pelageya	5	"Trouble"	Mariya Goya	Achi Purtseladze	"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
	Leonid Agutin	6	"Мелодия"	Edvard Khacharyan	Alexander Pozdnyakov	"Романс"
	Dima Bilan	7	"Блюз"	Yuliya Tereshchenko	Anastasiya Chevazhevskaya	"All the Man That I Need"
	Alexander Gradsky	8	"My Way"	Evgeny Kungurov	Pavel Pushkin	"Песенка волшебника"
	Dima Bilan	9	"Crazy in Love"	Olga Klyain	Alex Malinovskiy	"Breathe Easy"
	Pelageya	10	"Wicked Game"	Anri Gogniashvili	Nikita Pozdnyakov	"Колыбельная"
	Alexander Gradsky	11	"The Power of Love"	Polina Zizak	Svetlana Saydieva	"The Voice Within"
	Leonid Agutin	12	"If I Ain't Got You"	Artyom Kacharyan	Sevara Nazarkhan	"Там нет меня"

Live shows

Colour key:

	Artist was saved by Public's vote
	Artist was saved by his/her coach
	Artist was eliminated

Week 1: Quarterfinal

The one artist with the fewest votes from the each team left the competition by the end of the night.

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Result
Episode 11 (December 14, 2012)	Leonid Agutin	1	Artyom Kacharyan	"Песня о далекой родине"	Eliminated
		2	Anastasiya Spiridonova	"I'm Outta Love"	Saved by Public's vote
		3	Edvard Khacharyan	"Delilah"	Saved by Coach
	Pelageya	4	Mariya Goya	"Ой не світи, місяченьку"	Saved by Coach
		5	Elmira Kalimullina	"Is It a Crime"	Saved by Public's vote
		6	Anri Gogniashvili	"Я хочу быть с тобой"	Eliminated
	Dima Bilan	7	Olga Klyain	"It Don't Mean a Thing"	Saved by Coach
		8	Yuliya Tereshchenko	"Stand Up for Love"	Eliminated
		9	Margarita Pozoyan	"I Have Nothing"	Saved by Public's vote
	Alexander Gradsky	10	Dina Garipova	"Ты на свете есть"	Saved by Public's vote
		11	Polina Zizak	"And I'm Telling You"	Eliminated
		12	Evgeny Kungurov	"Ноктюрн"	Saved by Coach

Non-competition performances

Order	Performer	Song
11.1	Leonid Agutin, Anastasiya Spiridonova, Edvard Khacharyan and Artyom Kacharyan)	"Аэропорты"
11.2	Pelageya, Elmira Kalimullina, Mariya Goya and Anri Gogniashvili	"Под ракитою"
11.3	Dima Bilan, Margarita Pozoyan, Olga Klyain and Yuliya Tereshchenko	"Believe"
11.4	Alexander Gradsky, Dina Garipova, Evgeny Kungurov and Polina Zizak	"Hey Jude"

Week 2: Semifinal

The one artist with the fewest votes from the each team left the competition.

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Coach's vote (/100%)	Public's vote (/100%)	Votes' sum	Result
Episode 12 (December 21, 2012)	Alexander Gradsky	1	Evgeny Kungurov	"Есть только миг"	40%	29%	69%	Eliminated
		2	Dina Garipova	"The Music of the Night"	60%	71%	131%	Advanced
	Leonid Agutin	3	Edvard Khacharyan	"The Show Must Go On"	40%	46%	86%	Eliminated
		4	Anastasiya Spiridonova	"All by Myself"	60%	54%	114%	Advanced
	Pelageya	5	Elmira Kalimullina	"В горнице"	60%	65%	125%	Advanced
		6	Mariya Goya	"It's My Life"	40%	35%	75%	Eliminated
	Dima Bilan	7	Margarita Pozoyan	"Rolling in the Deep"	60%	49%	109%	Advanced
		8	Olga Klyain	"Колыбельная"	40%	51%	91%	Eliminated

Non-competition performances

Order	Performer	Song
12.1	Iosif Kobzon, Dina Garipova and Evgeny Kungurov	"Надежда"
12.2	Alexey Chumakov, Anastasiya Spiridonova and Edvard Khacharyan	"Загадай"
12.3	Chaif, Elmira Kalimullina and Mariya Goya	"Я рисую на окне"
12.4	Polina Gagarina, Margarita Pozoyan and Olga Klyain	"Спектакль окончен"

Week 3: Final

The Top 4 performed on December 29, 2012. The artist with the highest percentage of votes will be declared as the winner.

Episode	Coach	Artist	Order	Duet Song (with Star)	Order	Solo Song	Order	Duet Song (with Coach)	Result
Episode 13 (December 29, 2012)
	Dima Bilan	Margarita Pozoyan	1	"Ещё люблю" (with A-Studio)	5	"Не надо слов"	Eliminated		Fourth place
	Pelageya	Elmira Kalimullina	2	"Где ты?" (with Sergey Mazaev)	6	"Adagio"	9	"Cancao do mar"	Second place	33.7%
	Alexander Gradsky	Dina Garipova	3	"Skyfall" (with Fantine Pritula and Igor Butman)	7	"Non, je ne regrette rien"	10	"Не отрекаются любя"	Winner	66.3%
	Leonid Agutin	Anastasiya Spiridonova	4	"Я тебе не верю" (with Grigory Leps)	8	"Любовь и одиночество"	11	"На сиреневый луне"	Third place

Non-competition performances

Order	Performer	Song
13.1	Margarita Pozoyan, Elmira Kalimullina, Dina Garipova and Anastasiya Spiridonova	"С Новым Годом!"
13.2	Dima Bilan and Margarita Pozoyan	"Caruso"
13.3	All artists of the season	"Happy New Year"

Reception

Rating

Episode		Original airdate	Production	Time slot (UTC+3)	Audience
					Rating	Share
1	"The Blind Auditions Premiere"	October 5, 2012 (2012-10-05)	101	Friday 9:30 p.m.	5.5	16.2
2	"The Blind Auditions, Part 2"	October 12, 2012 (2012-10-12)	102	Friday 9:30 p.m.	6.9	20.0
3	"The Blind Auditions, Part 3"	October 19, 2012 (2012-10-19)	103	Friday 9:30 p.m.	7.0	20.0
4	"The Blind Auditions, Part 4"	October 26, 2012 (2012-10-26)	104	Friday 9:30 p.m.	7.8	22.3
5	"The Blind Auditions, Part 5"	November 4, 2012 (2012-11-04)	105	Sunday 9:20 p.m.	8.8	24.1
6	"The Blind Auditions, Part 6"	November 9, 2012 (2012-11-09)	106	Friday 9:30 p.m.	8.4	23.1
7	"The Battles Premiere"	November 16, 2012 (2012-11-16)	107	Friday 9:30 p.m.	8.0	22.4
8	"The Battles, Part 2"	November 23, 2012 (2012-11-23)	108	Friday 9:30 p.m.	8.4	23.2
9	"The Battles, Part 3"	November 30, 2012 (2012-11-30)	109	Friday 9:30 p.m.	7.7	21.2
10	"The Knockouts"	December 7, 2012 (2012-12-07)	110	Friday 7:50 p.m.	7.4	21.5
11	"Live Quarterfinal"	December 14, 2012 (2012-12-14)	111	Friday 9:30 p.m.	7.7	24.0
12	"Live Semifinal"	December 21, 2012 (2012-12-21)	112	Friday 9:30 p.m.	9.2	25.3
13	"Live Season Final"	December 29, 2012 (2012-12-29)	113	Saturday 9:30 p.m.	7.7	22.3