| The Voice Senior | |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | |
| Presented by | Dmitry Nagiev |
| Coaches | |
| Winner | Lidiya Muzalyova |
| Winning coach | Pelageya |
| Runner-up | Evgeny Strugalsky |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel One |
| Original release | September 14 – October 5, 2018 |
| Season chronology | |
The first season of the Russian reality talent show The Voice Senior (The Voice. 60+) premiered on September 14, 2018 [1] on Channel One. Dmitry Nagiev became the show's presenter. Leonid Agutin, Pelageya, Lev Leshchenko and Valery Meladze became the coaches in the premiere season.
Lidiya Muzalyova was announced the winner on October 5, 2018, marking Pelageya's first win as a coach and the first female coach to win in the show's history. Also Pelageya became the first coach in the history of the Russian Voice who won more than one version of the show, winning the fifth season of The Voice Kids in April, 2018.
For the first time in the history of the Voice franchise, viewers could choose the Best Coach using The Voice App and HbbTV option in their TV sets. Voting was conducted in all episodes except the Final. Pelageya became the first Best Coach with 38%.
Leonid Agutin, Pelageya and Valery Meladze became the first confirmed coaches on August 13, 2018, [2] followed by Lev Leshchenko on August 14, 2018. [3]
Dmitry Nagiev became the show's presenter.
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| Coaches | Top 17 artists | ||||
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| Leonid Agutin | |||||
| Nikolay Arutyunov | Nikolay Agutin | Andrey Kosinsky | Alexander Evdokimov | ||
| Pelageya | |||||
| Lidiya Muzalyova | Olga Muravina | Sergey Kurzanov | Oleg Pastukhov | Nataliya Butusova | |
| Lev Leshchenko | |||||
| Evgeny Strugalsky | Viktor Zuev | Mansur Tashmatov | Navruz Akhmedov | ||
| Valery Meladze | |||||
| Sergey Manukyan | Nataliya Spevak | Gennady Kim | Sergey Pivovarenok | ||
A new feature this season is The Best coach of the season (also in each episode).
| ✔ | 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 | |
The coaches performed "Жизнь" at the start of the show.
| Episode | Order | Artist | Age | Hometown | Song | Coach's and artist's choices | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agutin | Pelageya | Leshchenko | Meladze | ||||||
| Episode 1 [a] (September 14, 2018) | 1 | Sergey Kurzanov | 64 | Balashikha, Moscow oblast | "Johnny B. Goode" | — | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2 | Nataliya Spevak | 67 | Saratov | "I Know Why" | — | — | — | ✔ | |
| 3 | Oleg Pastukhov | 60 | Vladivostok | "Вечерний звон" | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 4 | Raisa Abdukhanova | 71 | Moscow | "Не уходи (Осень)" | — | — | — | — | |
| 5 | Gennady Kim | 62 | Sakhalin Oblast / Moscow | "Confessa" | — | — | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 6 | Evgeny Strugalskiy | 80 | Moscow | "Ты и эта гитара" | — | — | ✔ | — | |
| 7 | Nataliya Butusova | 61 | Volgograd | "Simply the Best" | — | ✔ | — | — | |
| 8 | Sergey Shtyrov | 61 | Moscow | "Дорогие мои, москвичи" | — | — | — | — | |
| 9 | Sergey Manukyan | 63 | Moscow | "Can't Buy Me Love" | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 10 | Irena Ginzburg-Zhurbina | 68 | Moscow | "Лошадка-жизнь" | — | — | — | — | |
| 11 | Andrey Kosinsky | 61 | Petergof, Saint Petersburg | "Virtual Insanity" | ✔ | — | — | — | |
| Episode 2 [b] (September 21, 2018) | 1 | Mansur Tashmatov | 64 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | "Sex Bomb" | — | — | ✔ | — |
| 2 | Lidiya Muzalyova | 62 | Obninsk, Kaluga oblast | "Оренбургский пуховый платок" | — | ✔ | ✔ | — | |
| 3 | Nikolay Arutyunov | 60 | Moscow | "Mercedes Benz" | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 4 | Viktor Zuev | 63 | Saint Petersburg | "Come vorrei" | — | Team full | ✔ | — | |
| 5 | Vera Kharchenko | 79 | Moscow | "Только раз бывает в жизни встреча" | — | — | — | ||
| 6 | Nikolay Agutin | 83 | Moscow | "Я работаю волшебником" | ✔ | — | — | ||
| 7 | Alexander Evdokimov | 66 | Tver | "Где же ты была" | ✔ | ✔ | — | ||
| 8 | Boris Pogodin | 79 | Veliky Novgorod | "Тайна" | Team full | — | — | ||
| 9 | Natalya Nurmukhamedova | 67 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | "Smooth Seiling" | — | — | |||
| 10 | Olga Muravina | 77 | Moscow | "Я танцевать хочу" | ✔ | ✔ | — | ||
| 11 | Sergey Pivovarenok | 61 | Yugorsk, Yugra | "Эти глаза напротив" | Team full | — | ✔ | ||
| 12 | Navruz Akhmedov | 60 | Moscow | "Не лукавьте" | ✔ | Team full | |||
The top 8 contestants then moved on to the Final.
| Artist was saved by the Public's votes | |
| Artist was eliminated |
| Episode | Coach | Order | Artist | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 3 (September 28, 2018) [c] | Valery Meladze | 1 | Sergey Pivovarenok | "Вечная весна" | Eliminated |
| 2 | Gennady Kim | "Come Together" | Eliminated | ||
| 3 | Nataliya Spevak | "Звать любовь не надо" | Advanced | ||
| 4 | Sergey Manukyan | "All of Me" | Advanced | ||
| Pelageya | 5 | Sergey Kurzanov | "Слепили бабу на морозе" | Eliminated | |
| 6 | Olga Muravina | "Гори, гори, моя звезда" | Advanced | ||
| 7 | Lidiya Muzalyova | "Верила, верила верю" | Advanced | ||
| 8 | Oleg Pastukhov | "Jamaica" | Eliminated | ||
| 9 | Nataliya Butusova | "Не обижай меня" | Eliminated | ||
| Lev Leshchenko | 10 | Mansur Tashmatov | "Ах, эта девушка" | Eliminated | |
| 11 | Viktor Zuev | "Buona Sera Signorina" | Advanced | ||
| 12 | Evgeny Strugalsky | "Три года ты мне снилась" | Advanced | ||
| 13 | Navruz Akhmedov | "Серенада Рикардо" | Eliminated | ||
| Leonid Agutin | 14 | Andrey Kosinsky | "Я не умею танцевать" | Eliminated | |
| 15 | Alexander Evdokimov | "Fantasy" | Eliminated | ||
| 16 | Nikolay Agutin | "Мама" | Advanced | ||
| 17 | Nikolay Arutyunov | "Can't Find a Reason" | Advanced | ||
| Artist was saved by the Public's votes | |
| Artist was eliminated |
| Episode | Coach | Order | Artist | Song | Public's vote | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 4 (October 5, 2018) | ||||||
| Final | ||||||
| Valery Meladze | 1 | Sergey Manukyan | "Старый клён" | 71.1% | Advanced | |
| 2 | Nataliya Spevak | "Autumn Leaves" | 28.9% | Eliminated | ||
| Lev Leshchenko | 3 | Evgeny Strugalsky | "Случайный вальс" | 67.4% | Advanced | |
| 4 | Viktor Zuev | "What a Wonderful World" | 32.6% | Eliminated | ||
| Pelageya | 5 | Lidiya Muzalyova | "Пой, звени, моя гитара" | 60.5% | Advanced | |
| 6 | Olga Muravina | "Песенка о хорошем настроении" | 39.5% | Eliminated | ||
| Leonid Agutin | 7 | Nikolay Agutin | "Come prima" / "Piove" | 30.3% | Eliminated | |
| 8 | Nikolay Arutyunov | "Этикет" | 69.7% | Advanced | ||
| Super Final | ||||||
| Valery Meladze | 1 | Sergey Manukyan | "Нежность" | Third Place | ||
| Lev Leshchenko | 2 | Evgeny Strugalsky | "Песня старого извозчика" | 48.3% | Runner-up | |
| Pelageya | 3 | Lidiya Muzalyova | "Я когда-то была молодая" | 51.7% | Winner | |
| Leonid Agutin | 4 | Nikolay Arutyunov | "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" | Third Place | ||
| Order | Performer | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | Pelageya & Lev Leshchenko (in memory of Charles Aznavour) | "Вечная любовь" |
| 4.2 | Lidiya Muzalyova (winner) | "Оренбургский пуховый платок" |
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| Coach | Public's vote (per episode) | Result | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | #2 | #3 | Av. | ||||
| Pelageya | 36% | 37% | 40% | 38% | Best Coach | ||
| Leonid Agutin | 30% | 31% | 33% | 31% | Second place | ||
| Valery Meladze | 19% | 14% | 15% | 16% | Third place | ||
| Lev Leshchenko | 15% | 18% | 12% | 15% | Fourth place | ||
| Episode | Original airdate | Production | Time slot (UTC+3) | Audience | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | Share | ||||||
| 1 | "The Blind Auditions Premiere" | September 14, 2018 | 101 | Friday 9:30 p.m. | 5.6 | 21.7 | [4] |
| 2 | "The Blind Auditions, Part 2" | September 21, 2018 | 102 | 5.6 | 21.4 | [5] | |
| 3 | "The Knockouts" | September 28, 2018 | 103 | 5.5 | 20.7 | [6] | |
| 4 | "Live Season Final" | October 5, 2018 | 104 | 5.1 | 19.2 | [7] | |
