The Voice Kids (Russian TV series) season 7

The Voice Kids
Season 7
Presented by	Dmitry Nagiev Agata Muceniece
Coaches	Basta Polina Gagarina Valery Meladze
Winner	Olesya Kazachenko
Winning coach	Basta
Runner-up	Sofia Tumanova
Release
Original network	Channel One
Original release	February 14 (2020-02-14) – April 24, 2020 (2020-04-24)
Season chronology
← Previous Season 6 Next → Season 8

The seventh season of the Russian reality talent show The Voice Kids premiered on February 14, 2020 on Channel One. Dmitry Nagiev returned as the show's presenter, Agata Muceniece returned after one season breake and replaced Aglaya Shilovskaya as a co-presenter. Valery Meladze returned as a coach while Basta returned as a coach after a one-season break and replaced Pelageya, Polina Gagarina replaced LOBODA.

Olesya Kazachenko was announced the winner on April 24, 2020, marking Basta's first win as a coach. Also Basta became the first coach on the kids version of the show to be both the Best coach and the winning coach in the same season.

Coaches and presenters

The Voice Kids season 7 coaches

Basta

Polina Gagarina

Valery Meladze

Dmitry Nagiev and Agata Muceniece

Valery Meladze was joined by Polina Gagarina as a new coach and Basta, who returned after a one-season break. ^[1] Dmitry Nagiev as presenter is joined by Agata Muceniece, who already held this position in the fifth season.

Teams

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Winner   Runner-up   Third place

Eliminated in the Final   Eliminated in the Live Extra round   Eliminated in the Battle rounds

Coaches	Top 45 artists
Basta
	Olesya Kazachenko	Ivan Kurgalin	Sofya Lyoret	Elizaveta Smetannikova	Anna Prokopenko
	Kseniya Shaplyko	Egor Blinov	Darya Kiselova	Alisa Savchits	Alina Shtyrnyaeva
	Valeriya Bazykina & Manizha Aminova	Vladimir Serkov	Zlata Osipova	Maryana Titova	Lyubava Solyanaya
Polina Gagarina
	Artyom Fokin	Artyom Morozov	Mirzhan Zhidebay	Taisiya Skomorokhova	Varvara Glukhova
	Gennadiy Pereverdiev	Dmitriy & Sergey Kotsenko	Darya Martsynkevich	Agniya Andreeva	Elina Khan
	Matvey Belyaev	Kseniya Misyurina	Ekaterina Kretova	Angelina Deryabina	Milana Volkova
Valery Meladze
	Sofya Tumanova	Kirill Aleksandrov	Kristina Siller	Sofiya Fomenko	Sofiya Butamyonok
	Kira Naumenko	Artyom Skorol	Arina Orlova	Bogdan Khayrullin	Alisa Smirnova
	Varvara Muzeeva	Timur Lezgishvili	Polina Groznova	Miron Dovgan	Semyon Orlov
Note: Italicized names are stolen contestants (who were eliminated in the Sing-offs, but were stolen in the Live Extra round and advanced to the Final).

Blind auditions

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✔	Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button
✔	Coach pressed "I WANT YOU", despite the lack places in his/her team
	Artist defaulted to a coach's team
	Artist picked a coach's team
	Artist eliminated with no coach pressing their button

The coaches performed "О голос" at the start of the show.

Episode	Order	Artist	Age	Hometown	Song	Coach's and artist's choices
						Basta	Gagarina	Meladze
Episode 1 [a] (February 14)	1	Miron Dovgan	6	Chelyabinsk	"От Волги до Енисея"	✔	✔	✔
	2	Elina Khan	11	Kaluga, Kaluga oblast	"Back in the U.S.S.R."	—	✔	—
	3	Elizaveta Smetannikova	10	Novosibirsk	"Экспонат"	✔	✔	✔
	4	Zelimkhan Ataev	11	Makhachkala	"Parlami d'amore, Mariu"	—	—	—
	5	Milana Volkova	10	Ryazan	"Не пара"	—	✔	✔
	6	Taisiya Skomorokhova	8	Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast	"Goomba Boomba"	✔	✔	✔
	7	Alexander Pereplyotchikov	13	Orenburg Oblast	"Метелица метёт"	—	—	—
	8	Kristina Siller	14	Saint Petersburg	"Strange Birds"	—	—	✔
	9	Ivan Kurgalin	13	Veliky Novgorod	"Слишком влюблён"	✔	—	—
	10	Anna Bazhanova	12	Podolsk, Moscow Oblast	"Billie Jean"	—	—	—
	11	Alisa Savchits	10	Saint Petersburg	"Somewhere"	✔	—	✔
Episode 2 [b] (February 21)	1	Valeriya Bazykina & Manizha Aminova	13/14	Balashikha, Moscow oblast / Vyoshki, Smolensk oblast	"Трава у дома"	✔	—	✔
	2	Artyom Morozov	10	Moscow	"Who Wants to Live Forever"	✔	✔	✔
	3	Alisa Smirnova	6	Moscow	"Гармонь моя"	—	—	✔
	4	Kirill Aleksandrov	12	Belgorod	"Virtual Insanity"	✔	—	✔
	5	Varvara Glukhova	10	Novosibirsk	"Мама, я танцую"	✔	✔	✔
	6	Ivan Azarenko	12	Novosibirsk	"О любви"	—	—	—
	7	Angelina Deryabina	9	Moscow	"Part of Your World"	✔	✔	✔
	8	Darya Martsynkevich	12	Minsk, Belarus	"Break Free"	—	✔	—
	9	Nicole Podteroba	13	Moscow	"Кажется"	—	—	—
	10	Artyom Skorol	14	Ashmyany, Belarus	"Feeling Good"	—	—	✔
Episode 3 [c] (February 28)	1	Agniya Andreeva	6	Moscow	"I Got You (I Feel Good)"	✔	✔	✔
	2	Maksim Putin	12	Moscow	"Confessa"	—	—	—
	3	Tais Saka	14	Antalya, Turkey	"Ой, то не вечер"	—	—	—
	4	Vladimir Serkov	9	Buturlinovka, Voronezh Oblast	"Скрипка Паганини"	✔	✔	✔
	5	Agata Gorbachyova	11	Moscow	"Give It Away"	—	—	—
	6	Semyon Orlov	7	Moscow	"Симона"	—	—	✔
	7	Sofya Lyoret	13	Moscow	"Clown"	✔	✔	✔
	8	Sofiya Nurieva	10	Saint Petersburg	"Moon River"	—	—	—
	9	Varvara Muzeeva	12	Moscow	"Всё не так просто"	—	—	✔
	10	Mirzhan Zhidebay	14	Aktobe, Kazakhstan	"Listen"	✔	✔	—
	11	Zlata Osipova	9	Moscow	"Enjoy the Silence"	✔	—	✔
Episode 4 [d] (March 6)	1	Ekaterina Kretova	13	Barabinsk, Novosibirsk Oblast	"Я на горку шла"	—	✔	—
	2	Artyom Fokin	13	Sevastopol	"Taki Rari"	✔	✔	✔
	3	Lyubava Solyanaya	6	Saint Petersburg	"Любочка"	✔	—	—
	4	Alim Fazailov	12	Moscow	"Gangsta's Paradise"	—	—	—
	5	Maryana Titova	9	Saint Petersburg	"Падать в грязь"	✔	—	✔
	6	Elis Brener	12	Ashdod, Israel	"Dynamite"	—	—	—
	7	Bogdan Khayrullin	11	Chelyabinsk	"Белый снег"	✔	✔	✔
	8	Aruzhan Sabykenova	14	Almaty, Kazakhstan	"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"	—	—	—
	9	Nikita Moroz	13	Moscow	"Комета"	—	—	—
	10	Anna Prokopenko	14	Kaluga	"Nature Boy"	✔	—	✔
	11	Kira Naumenko	10	Aprelevka, Moscow Oblast	"Танцующие Эвридики"	—	—	✔
Episode 5 [e] (March 13)	1	Kseniya Shaplyko	6	Minsk, Belarus	"Районы, кварталы"	✔	—	✔
	2	Diyarbek Nurullaev	11	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	"Pardonne moi"	—	—	—
	3	Polina Groznova	14	Tver	"Mein Vater ist ein Appenzeller"	—	—	✔
	4	Egor Blinov	14	Saratov	"Твои следы"	✔	—	—
	5	Olesya Kazachenko	10	Noginsk, Moscow Oblast	"Rise Up"	✔	✔	✔
	6	Sofiya Butamyonok	6	Mogilev, Belarus	"Дорогой длинною"	—	—	✔
	7	Darya Saphronova	13	Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo Oblast	"Ты уйдёшь"	—	—	—
	8	Timur Lezgishvili	13	Toronto, Canada	"We Are the Champions"	✔	✔	✔
	9	Sofya Tumanova	12	Novosibirsk	"My Mind"	✔	✔	✔
	10	Mariya Ermakova	12	Minsk, Belarus	"Если ты слышишь"	—	—	—
	11	Dmitriy & Sergey Kotsenko	12	Vladivostok	"Красный конь"	—	✔	—
Episode 6 [f] (March 20)	1	Matvey Belyaev	8	Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast	"Ночной хулиган"	—	✔	✔
	2	Sofiya Fomenko	10	Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast	"Girls Just Want to Have Fun"	—	—	✔
	3	Arina Orlova	14	Moscow	"Idontwannabeyouanymore"	✔	✔	✔
	4	Gennadiy Pereverdiev	11	Moscow	"Натуральный блондин"	—	✔	Team full
	5	Mariel Shavit	10	Holon, Israel	"Летний дождь"	—	—
	6	Kseniya Misyurina	10	Chelyabinsk	"Я выбираю тебя"	✔	✔
	7	Matvey Gilov	11	Ishim, Tyumen Oblast	"Штиль"	—	Team full
	8	Evelina Zelinka	14	Krasnoyarsk	"Чак"	—
	9	Darya Kiselova	10	Moscow	"Toy"	✔
	10	Alina Shtyrnyaeva	14	Zarechny, Penza Oblast	"One Day"	✔	✔	✔

The Battles

The Battles start on March 27, 2020. Contestants who won their battle advanced to the Sing-off rounds.

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	Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Sing-offs
	Artist was eliminated

Episode	Coach	Order	Winner	Song	Losers
Episode 7 (March 27)	Valery Meladze	1	Sofiya Butamyonok	"Влюблённый и безумно одинокий"	Alisa Smirnova	Semyon Orlov
		2	Sofiya Fomenko	"Песенка мамонтёнка" / "Life"	Miron Dovgan	Bogdan Khayrullin
		3	Kirill Aleksandrov	"Everybody"	Artyom Skorol	Timur Lezgishvili
		4	Sofya Tumanova	"Одно и то же"	Varvara Muzeeva	Kira Naumenko
		5	Kristina Siller	"F-R-I-E-N-D-S"	Polina Groznova	Arina Orlova
Episode 8 (April 3)	Polina Gagarina	1	Artyom Morozov	"The Final Countdown"	Dmitriy & Sergey Kotsenko	Kseniya Misyurina
		2	Mirzhan Zhidebay	"Замок из дождя"	Darya Martsynkevich	Ekaterina Kretova
		3	Varvara Glukhova	"Были танцы" / "Пойду, выйду на улицу"	Elina Khan	Milana Volkova
		4	Artyom Fokin	"Небо"	Matvey Belyaev	Gennadiy Pereverdiev
		5	Taisiya Skomorokhova	"Dance Monkey"	Angelina Deryabina	Agniya Andreeva
Episode 9 (April 10)	Basta	1	Elizaveta Smetannikova	"Убей мою подругу"	Alisa Savchits	Maryana Titova
		2	Anna Prokopenko	"Тучи"	Alina Shtyrnyaeva	Lyubava Solyanaya
		3	Sofya Lyoret	"Good as Hell"	Zlata Osipova	Darya Kiselova
		4	Ivan Kurgalin	"Фантазёр"	Egor Blinov	Vladimir Serkov
		5	Olesya Kazachenko	"Toccata and Fugue" / "Eye of the Tiger"	Kseniya Shaplyko	Valeriya Bazykina & Manizha Aminova

The Sing-offs

The Sing-offs start on March 27. Contestants who was saved by their coaches advanced to the Final.

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	Artist was saved by his/her coach and advanced to the Final
	Artist was eliminated but received the Comeback and advanced to the Live Extra round

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Result
Episode 7 (March 27)	Valery Meladze	1	Sofiya Butamyonok	"Дорогой длинною"	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		2	Sofiya Fomenko	"Girls Just Want to Have Fun"	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		3	Kirill Aleksandrov	"Virtual Insanity"	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		4	Sofya Tumanova	"My Mind"	Advanced to the Final
		5	Kristina Siller	"Strange Birds"	Advanced to the Final
Episode 8 (April 3)	Polina Gagarina	1	Artyom Morozov	"Who Wants to Live Forever"	Advanced to the Final
		2	Mirzhan Zhidebay	"Listen"	Advanced to the Final
		3	Varvara Glukhova	"Мама, я танцую"	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		4	Artyom Fokin	"Taki Rari"	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		5	Taisiya Skomorokhova	"Goomba Boomba"	Advanced to the Live Extra round
Episode 9 (April 10)	Basta	1	Elizaveta Smetannikova	"Экспонат"	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		2	Anna Prokopenko	"Nature Boy"	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		3	Sofya Lyoret	"Clown"	Advanced to the Final
		4	Ivan Kurgalin	"Слишком влюблён"	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		5	Olesya Kazachenko	"Rise Up"	Advanced to the Final

Live shows

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	Artist was saved by the Public's votes
	Artist was eliminated

Week 1: Live Playoffs (April 17)

As with season 2, each coach saved three artists who were eliminated in the Sing-offs. Playoff results were voted on in real time. Nine artists sang live and six of them were eliminated by the end of the night. Three saved artists advanced to the Final.

The show was live with no audience due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Public's vote	Result
Episode 10 (April 17) [g]	Valery Meladze	1	Sofiya Butamyonok	"Частушки Бабок-Ёжек"	13.4%	Eliminated
		2	Kirill Aleksandrov	"Cake by the Ocean"	57.7%	Advanced
		3	Sofiya Fomenko	"Паруса"	26.9%	Eliminated
	Polina Gagarina	4	Taisiya Skomorokhova	"Голоса"	24.9%	Eliminated
		5	Artyom Fokin	"Опера №2"	54.1%	Advanced
		6	Varvara Glukhova	"Шагай"	21%	Eliminated
	Basta	7	Elizaveta Smetannikova	"Вновь за горизонт"	20.8%	Eliminated
		8	Anna Prokopenko	"Только с тобой"	18.6%	Eliminated
		9	Ivan Kurgalin	"На берегу неба"	60.6%	Advanced

Week 2: Final (April 24)

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Public's vote	Result
Episode 11 (April 24)
	Final
	Valery Meladze	1	Kristina Siller	"California Dreamin'"	4.9%	Eliminated
		2	Kirill Aleksandrov	"Разговор со счастьем"	28.1%	Eliminated
		3	Sofya Tumanova	"Птиченька"	67%	Advanced
	Polina Gagarina	4	Artyom Morozov	"Зурбаган"	24.3%	Eliminated
		5	Mirzhan Zhidebay	"I Surrender"	22.1%	Eliminated
		6	Artyom Fokin	"Третья песня Леля"	53.6%	Advanced
	Basta	7	Sofya Lyoret	"Любовь настала"	18.3%	Eliminated
		8	Ivan Kurgalin	"Чёрное солнце"	29.4%	Eliminated
		9	Olesya Kazachenko	"Total Eclipse of the Heart"	52.3%	Advanced
	Super Final
	Valery Meladze	1	Sofya Tumanova	"Стороною дождь" / "Колыбельная"	32.7%	Runner-up
	Polina Gagarina	2	Artyom Fokin	"Con te partirò"	31.6%	Third place
Basta	3	Olesya Kazachenko	"Миллион алых роз"	35.7%	Winner

Non-competition performances

Performer	Song
The Top 9 artists	"The Winner Takes It All"

Best Coach

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Best Coach   Second place   Third place

Episode's Best Coach

Coach	Public's vote (per episode)								Result
	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#10	Av.
Basta	40%	36%	36%	42%	45%	40%	38%	40%	Best Coach
Polina Gagarina	31%	33%	31%	36%	28%	32%	42%	33%	Second place
Valery Meladze	29%	31%	33%	22%	27%	28%	20%	27%	Third place

Reception

Rating

Episode		Original airdate	Production	Time slot (UTC+3)	Viewers (by million)	Audience		Source
						Rating	Share
1	"The Blind Auditions Premiere"	February 14, 2020 (2020-02-14)	701	Friday 9:30 p.m.	3.78	5.3	19.2	[2]
2	"The Blind Auditions, Part 2"	February 21, 2020 (2020-02-21)	702		3.9	5.5	20.9	[3]
3	"The Blind Auditions, Part 3"	February 28, 2020 (2020-02-28)	703		4.0	5.7	20.3	[4]
4	"The Blind Auditions, Part 4"	March 6, 2020 (2020-03-06)	704		3.67	5.2	18.4	[5]
5	"The Blind Auditions, Part 5"	March 13, 2020 (2020-03-13)	705		4.1	5.8	19.8	[6]
6	"The Blinds End"	March 20, 2020 (2020-03-20)	706		4.07	5.8	19.3	[7]
7	"The Battles and the Sing-offs Premiere"	March 27, 2020 (2020-03-27)	707		4.1	5.8	22.1	[8]
8	"The Battles and the Sing-offs, Part 2"	April 3, 2020 (2020-04-03)	708		3.94	5.6	19.5	[9]
9	"The Battles and the Sing-offs, Part 3"	April 10, 2020 (2020-04-10)	709		3.63	5.1	18.4	[10]
10	"Live Playoffs"	April 17, 2020 (2020-04-17)	710		3.58	5.1	17.2	[11]
11	"Live Season Final"	April 24, 2020 (2020-04-24)	711		3.48	4.9	18.5	[12]

Notes

1. Basta is The best coach of episode 1.
2. Basta is The best coach of episode 2.
3. Basta is The best coach of episode 3.
4. Basta is The best coach of episode 4.
5. Basta is The best coach of episode 5.
6. Basta is The best coach of episode 6.
7. Polina Gagarina is The best coach of episode 10.

References

1. "Представляем Наставников нового сезона шоу "Голос.Дети"" (in Russian). Retrieved 14 February 2020.
2. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Blind Auditions Premiere". Channel One. February 14, 2020. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
3. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Blind Auditions. Episode 2". Channel One. February 21, 2020. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
4. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Blind Auditions. Episode 3". Channel One. February 28, 2020. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
5. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Blind Auditions. Episode 4". Channel One. March 6, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
6. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Blind Auditions. Episode 5". Channel One. March 13, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
7. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Blind Auditions. Episode 6". Channel One. March 20, 2020. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
8. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Battles Premiere". Channel One. March 27, 2020. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
9. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Battles. Episode 2". Channel One. April 3, 2020. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
10. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Battles. Episode 3". Channel One. April 10, 2020. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
11. "The Voice Kids, season 7. The Live Playoffs". Channel One. April 17, 2020. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
12. "The Voice Kids, season 7. Live Season Final". Channel One. April 22, 2020. Retrieved April 23, 2020.