Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Member station |
Former members
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National selection events | National final
Internal selection
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Participation summary | |
Appearances | 23 (22 finals) |
Host | 2009 |
First appearance | 1994 |
Highest placement | 1st: 2008 |
External links | |
Channel One page Russia-1 page | |
Russia's page at Eurovision.tv | |
For the most recent participation see Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 |
Russia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 23 times since their debut in 1994. Russia won the 2008 contest with Dima Bilan performing the song "Believe". One of the most successful countries in the contest in the 21st century with a total of ten top five placements, Russia finished second with Alsou in 2000, Dima Bilan in 2006, Buranovskiye Babushki in 2012 and Polina Gagarina in 2015; third with t.A.T.u. in 2003, Serebro in 2007, Sergey Lazarev in 2016 and 2019, and fifth with Dina Garipova in 2013. In 2018, they failed to qualify for the final for the first time in their history. The Russian entry has been chosen through both internal selections and a televised national final titled Evrovidenie, with their most recent entry (2021) being chosen by the latter.
Contest history[]
Russia debuted in the 1994 contest after becoming a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Russia came second at four contests; in 2000 with the song "Solo" performed by Alsou, in 2006 with Dima Bilan's song "Never Let You Go", in 2012 with the song "Party for Everybody" performed by Buranovskiye Babushki, and in 2015 with Polina Gagarina's song "A Million Voices". They also achieved four third-place finishes; in 2003 with t.A.T.u's song "Ne ver', ne boysia", Serebro in 2007 with their entry "Song #1", and in 2016 as well as 2019 with Sergey Lazarev's entries "You Are the Only One" and "Scream" respectively.
Russia has failed to qualify for the final on two occasions. In 1996, Russia's entry was Andrey Kosinsky with the song "Ya eto ya", but he scored an insufficient number of points in a special qualifying round, while in 2018 Yulia Samoylova, who represented the country with the song "I Won't Break", failed to qualify from the televised second semi-final.
In 1998, because Russia did not participate in the contest (due to lower average scores in participating in previous competitions), Russia refused to broadcast the competition and the European Broadcasting Union in return forbade the country to participate the following year. According to unconfirmed information, Russia intended to send Tatyana Ovsienko with the song "Solntse moyo" (My Sun), which turned out to be a false rumour as the song was officially released in mid-1997 on Tatyana's album "Za Rozovym morem". Tatyana herself, during an interview, said that she did not go to Eurovision because she was "Either afraid or not very sure, besides, i knew that there were stronger guys and girls, and I thought that i would still have time [to go to Eurovision]."[2]
Russia won their first and so far only contest in 2008, when Dima Bilan, participating for the second time in the contest, won with the song "Believe", bringing the contest to Russia for 2009.
Russia was the most successful country in Eurovision between 2000 and 2009, with one win, two-second places, and two third places. However, in 2010 they finished 11th, and in 2011 they were 16th, which was the worst placing for Russia since 1995. Interest in the competition fell, but in 2012, Buranovskiye Babushki finished in second place, increasing Russia's interest in the show. Russia holds the record for the most top five finishes in the 21st century, with ten, with Sergey Lazarev holding the record of the highest score of any Russian contestant, who finished third in 2016 with 491 points.
In February 2019, Sergey Lazarev was once again confirmed as the Russian representative for the 2019 contest, becoming the second returning artist in Russia's Eurovision history after Dima Bilan, who participated in 2006 and 2008 respectively. This time he represented his country with the song "Scream", with which he brought Russia back to the final for the first time since 2016 and achieved the country's 10th top 5 result, by finishing third once again.
For the 2021 contest, Russia opted to return to a national selection, after Little Big declined to return following their intended participation in the later-cancelled 2020 contest with "Uno". "Russian Woman" performed by Manizha emerged as the winner of the selection, which then went on to finish in 9th place in the final.
Broadcast[]
The contest has been broadcast irregularly on two different public state channels in Russia, both EBU members: in 1994 and 1996 it was broadcast on Russia-1 of VGTRK, while in 1995, 1997 and from 1999 to 2007 the contest was broadcast on Channel One. Since 2008, there is an alternation on broadcast and selection duties, with Russia-1 on even years, and Channel One on odd years. This alternation was disrupted when Russia withdrew from the 2017 contest, after which Channel One assumed broadcast and selection duties on an even year (2018), with Russia-1 on an odd year (2019). After the cancellation of the 2020 contest, from 2021 onwards, alternation in broadcast was restored to how it was prior to 2017.
Participation overview[]
1 | Winner |
2 | Second place |
3 | Third place |
X | Entry selected but did not compete |
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Upcoming |
Year | Entrant | Song | Language | Final | Points | Semi | Points |
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1994 | Youddiph | "Vechni stranik" (Вечный странник) | Russian | 9 | 70 | No semi-finals | |
1995 | Philipp Kirkorov | "Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana" (Колыбельная для вулкана) | Russian | 17 | 17 | ||
1996 | Andrey Kosinsky | "Ya eto ya" (Я это я) | Russian | Failed to qualify[a] X | 27 | 14 | |
1997 | Alla Pugacheva | "Primadonna" (Примадонна) | Russian | 15 | 33 | No semi-finals | |
2000 | Alsou | "Solo" | English | 2 | 155 | ||
2001 | Mumiy Troll | "Lady Alpine Blue" | English | 12 | 37 | ||
2002 | Prime Minister | "Northern Girl" | English | 10 | 55 | ||
2003 | t.A.T.u. | "Ne ver', ne boisia" (Не верь, не бойся) | Russian | 3 | 164 | ||
2004 | Julia Savicheva | "Believe Me" | English | 11 | 67 | Top 11 previous year[b] | |
2005 | Natalia Podolskaya | "Nobody Hurt No One" | English | 15 | 57 | Top 12 previous year[b] | |
2006 | Dima Bilan | "Never Let You Go" | English | 2 | 248 | 3 | 217 |
2007 | Serebro | "Song #1" | English | 3 | 207 | Top 10 previous year[b] | |
2008 | Dima Bilan | "Believe" | English | 1 | 272 | 3 | 135 |
2009 | Anastasia Prikhodko | "Mamo" (Мамо) | Russian, Ukrainian | 11 | 91 | Host country[c] | |
2010 | Peter Nalitch and Friends | "Lost and Forgotten" | English | 11 | 90 | 7 | 74 |
2011 | Alexey Vorobyov | "Get You" | English, Russian | 16 | 77 | 9 | 64 |
2012 | Buranovskiye Babushki | "Party for Everybody" | Udmurt, English | 2 | 259 | 1 | 152 |
2013 | Dina Garipova | "What If" | English | 5 | 174 | 2 | 156 |
2014 | Tolmachevy Sisters | "Shine" | English | 7 | 89 | 6 | 63 |
2015 | Polina Gagarina | "A Million Voices" | English | 2 | 303 | 1 | 182 |
2016 | Sergey Lazarev | "You Are the Only One" | English | 3 | 491 | 1 | 342 |
2017 | Julia Samoylova | "Flame Is Burning" | English | Withdrawn[d] X | |||
2018 | Julia Samoylova | "I Won't Break" | English | Failed to qualify | 15 | 65 | |
2019 | Sergey Lazarev | "Scream" | English | 3 | 370 | 6 | 217 |
2020 | Little Big | "Uno" | English, Spanish | Contest cancelled[e] X | |||
2021 | Manizha | "Russian Woman" | Russian, English | 9 | 204 | 3 | 225 |
Appeared in list of participants †[3] |
Selection process[]
Year | Selection process | Channel | Ref. |
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1994 | National final with 9 participants | RTR | |
1995 | National final with 9 participants | ORT | |
National final with 14 participants | RTR | ||
1997 | Internal selection | ORT | |
Did not participate between 1998 and 1999 | |||
2000 | Internal selection with 5 participants | ORT | [4] |
2001 | [5] | ||
2002 | Internal selection with 25 participants | [6] | |
2003 | Internal selection | Channel 1 | |
2004 | Internal selection with 10 participants | [7] | |
2005 | National final with 29 participants | ||
2006 | Internal selection with 4 participants | [8] | |
2007 | Internal selection with 5 participants | [9] | |
2008 | National final with 27 participants | Russia | |
2009 | National final with 16 participants | Channel 1 | |
2010 | National final with 25 participants | Russia 1 | |
2011 | Internal selection | Channel 1 | |
2012 | National final with 25 participants | Russia 1 | |
2013 | Internal selection | Channel 1 | |
2014 | Internal selection with 18 participants | Russia 1 | [10] |
2015 | Internal selection with 4 participants | Channel 1 | [11] |
2016 | Internal selection | Russia 1 | |
Internal selection with 7 participants | Channel 1 | [12] | |
2018 | Internal selection | ||
2019 | Internal selection with 8 participants | Russia 1 | [13][14] |
Internal selection with 9 participants | Channel 1 | [15][16] | |
2021 | National final with 3 participants | ||
2022 | Internal selection with 6 participants | Russia 1 | [17] |
Related involvement[]
Conductors[]
Year | Conductor | Notes | Ref. |
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1994 | Lev Zemlinski | ||
1995 | Mikhail Finberg | ||
1997 | Rutger Gunnarsson |
Heads of delegation[]
Broadcaster | Year(s) | Head of delegation | Ref. |
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Channel One | ???-2003 | Elena Arkhipova | [18] |
2004- | Yuri Aksyuta | [19] | |
RTR | 2008- | Ekaterina Orlova | [20] |
Commentators and spokespersons[]
This section needs additional citations for verification. (November 2019) |
Year | Commentator | Channel | Spokesperson | Ref. |
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1992 | Unknown | RTR | Did not participate | |
1993 | Vadim Dolgachyov | |||
1994 | Sergey Antipov | Irina Klenskaya | ||
1995 | No commentator[f] | ORT | Marina Danielyan | |
1997 | Philipp Kirkorov, Sergey Antipov | Arina Sharapova | ||
1999 | Aleksey Zhuravlev, Tatyana Godunova | Did not participate | ||
2000 | Zhanna Agalakova | |||
2001 | Alexander Anatolievich, Konstantin Mikhailov | Larisa Verbitskaya | ||
2002 | Yuri Aksyuta, Elena Batinova | Arina Sharapova | ||
2003 | Channel 1 | Yana Churikova | ||
2004 | ||||
2005 | ||||
2006 | Yuri Aksyuta, Tatyana Godunova | |||
2007 | Yuri Aksyuta, Elena Batinova | |||
2008 | Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Shelest | Russia | Oxana Fedorova | |
2009 | Yana Churikova (all shows), Aleksey Manuylov (semi-finals), Philipp Kirkorov (final) |
Channel 1 | Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė | |
2010 | Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Shelest | Russia 1 | Oxana Fedorova | |
2011 | Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova | Channel 1 | Dima Bilan | |
2012 | Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Shelest | Russia 1 | Oxana Fedorova | |
2013 | Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova | Channel 1 | Alsou | [22] |
2014 | Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Shelest | Russia 1 | [23] | |
2015 | Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova | Channel 1 | Dmitry Shepelev | |
2016 | Dmitry Guberniev, Ernest Mackevičius | Russia 1 | Nyusha | |
2018 | Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova | Channel 1 | Alsou | |
2019 | Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Shelest | Russia 1 | Ivan Bessonov | [24][25][26] |
2021 | Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova | Channel 1 | Polina Gagarina | [27][28] |
Viewing figures[]
Year | Region(s) | Share | Rating | Ref. |
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1997 | All of Russia | 53,8% | N/A | [29] |
2001 | All of Russia | 31,1% | 5,5% | [30] |
2004 | All of Russia | 51,6% | 16,1% | [31] |
2005 | All of Russia | 40,2% | 11% | [32] |
2007 | All of Russia | 53,6% | 17% | [33] |
2008 | All of Russia | 47% | 8,4% | [34] |
2009 | All of Russia | 64,2% | 17,6% | [35] |
2010 | Rest of Russia | 37,2% | N/A | [36] |
Moscow | 46,5% | N/A | ||
2011 | Rest of Russia | 33% | 5,4% | [37] |
Moscow | 35,5% | 8% | ||
2012 | All of Russia | 47,7% | 12,1% | [38] |
2013 | All of Russia | 32,5% | 6% | [39] |
2014 | All of Russia | 31,5% | 5,2% | [40] |
2015 | All of Russia | 31,6% | 6,8% | [41] |
2016 | All of Russia | 37% | 6,8% | [42] |
2018 | All of Russia | 11,6% | 2,2% | [43] |
2019 | All of Russia | 28,2% | 4,6% | [44] |
2020[g] | All of Russia | 11,7% | 3% | [45] |
2021 | All of Russia | 23,1% | 3,8% | [46] |
Hostings[]
Year | Location | Venue | Presenters | Ref. |
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2009 | Moscow | Olympic Indoor Arena | Natalia Vodianova and Andrey Malahov (semi-finals) Alsou and Ivan Urgant (final) |
[47] |
Awards[]
Marcel Bezençon Awards[]
Year | Category | Song | Performer | Final | Points | Host city | Ref. |
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2016 | Press Award | "You Are the Only One" | Sergey Lazarev | 3 | 491 | Stockholm | [48] |
Barbara Dex Award[]
Year | Performer | Host city | Ref. |
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2003 | t.A.T.u. | Riga | [49] |
Photogallery[]
Dima Bilan in Belgrade (2008)
Anastasia Prikhodko in Moscow (2009)
Peter Nalitch and Friends in Oslo (2010)
Alex Vorobyov in Düsseldorf (2011)
Dina Garipova in Malmö (2013)
Tolmachevy Sisters in Copenhagen (2014)
Polina Gagarina in Vienna (2015)
Sergey Lazarev in Stockholm (2016)
Julia Samoylova in Lisbon (2018)
Sergey Lazarev in Tel Aviv (2019)
See also[]
- Russia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Junior version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
- Russia in the Eurovision Dance Contest – Dance version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
- Russia in the Eurovision Young Dancers – A competition organised by the EBU for younger dancers aged between 16 and 21.
- Russia in the Eurovision Young Musicians – A competition organised by the EBU for musicians aged 18 years and younger.
- Russia in the Türkvizyon Song Contest – A contest for countries and regions which are of Turkic-speaking or Turkic ethnicity.
Notes and references[]
Notes[]
- ^ In 1996, Russia failed to qualify from the audio only pre-qualification round. The official Eurovision site does not count 1996 in Russia's total list of appearances.
- ^ a b c If a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in Semi-finals. In addition, from 2004 to 2007, the top 10 non-Big Four countries did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year. For example, if Germany and France placed inside the top 10, the 11th and 12th spots were advanced to next year's grand final along with all countries in the top 10.
- ^ If a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year.
- ^ Russia withdrew from the 2017 contest, after Julia Samoylova was banned from entering the host country Ukraine. The official Eurovision site does not count 2017 in Russia's total list of appearances.
- ^ The 2020 contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- ^ The contest was shown in the recording and without a commentator due to the fact that "The editorial office of Ostankino music and entertainment programs failed to allocate an hour and a half of the prime time airtime of ORT for showing competitive video clips [sic]"[21]
- ^ Statistics for "Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light"
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