The Voice (Russian TV series) season 11

The eleventh season of the Russian reality talent show The Voice premiered on March 3, 2023, on Channel One. Following the conclusion of the tenth season, the panel was entirely changed as none of the coaches and host from last season returned. Polina Gagarina and Basta returned as coaches. Vladimir Presnyakov and Anton Belyaev joined the show as new coaches, whereas Yana Churikova joined as host.

The Voice
Season 11
Presented by	Yana Churikova
Coaches	Vladimir Presnyakov Polina Gagarina Basta Anton Belyaev
Winner	Viktoria Solomahina
Winning coach	Polina Gagarina
Runner-up	Elmira Divaeva
Release
Original network	Channel One
Original release	March 3, 2023 (2023-03-03) – 2 June 2023 (2023-06-02)
Season chronology

Viktoria Solomakhina was announced as the winner of the season, marking Polina Gagarina's second win as a coach, and maintaining her winning streak from season 9. With Solomakhina's win, Gagarina become the first female coach to win multiple seasons of the main show, The Voice Russia. Also, Solomakhina became the first winner, who had a block in the Blind Auditions (Gagarina blocked Basta)

Coaches and presenter

On February 6, 2023, Channel One announced that Polina Gagarina and Basta would be returning as coaches after one season break along with two new coaches — Vladimir Presnyakov and Anton Belyaev, with the latter being the first former contestant on the show to become a coach. Belyaev was a contestant on the second season and made it to the semi-finals.

Dmitry Nagiev did not return as the show's presenter and was replaced by Yana Churikova.

The Voice season 11 coaches and presenter

Vladimir Presnyakov

Polina Gagarina

Basta

Anton Belyaev

Yana Churikova

Teams

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Winner   Runner-up   Third place   Fourth place   Eliminated in the Semi-final

Eliminated in the Quarterfinal   Stolen in the Knockout rounds   Eliminated in the Knockout rounds   Eliminated in the Battle rounds

Coaches	Top 49 artists
Vladimir Presnyakov
	Elmira Divaeva	Margarita Bagdasaryan	Alina Bakhshalieva	Lyudmila Serebryakova	Akhmed Akhmedov
	Masha Mey	Arut Grigoryan	Darel Alfonso	Evgeny Sinitsyn	Vasily Shkividorov
	Ilya Anopriev	Olesya Plotnikova	Vadim Evteev	Yulia Garifullina
Polina Gagarina
	Viktoria Solomakhina	Nadezhda Proskurina	Akhmed Akhmedov	Anastasia Barannikova	Yana Arndt
	Ilona Krasnikova	Vladislav Zotov	Georgy Lituev	Dmitry Zhukov	Ivan Romanenko
	Denis Primak	Tais Urumidis	Alina Gubina
Basta
	Lyudmila Serebryakova	Pavel Zibrov	Maria Lapshina	Irina Syshchikova	Alina Bakhshalieva
	Polina Kuzmina	Anastasia Demidova	Sergey Korobeynikov	Daria	Sofia Maltseva
	Kristina Yatsenko	Anvar Dzhuraev	Viktoria Gissen
Anton Belyaev
	Irina Syshchikova	Nikolay Shcherba	Gulnara Bayguzina	Anastasia Kaprelyan	Astemir Bolov
	Daniil and Yulia Brant	Viktoria Knyazhevskaya	Aynur Nurpeisova	Yulia Dementyeva	Elina Aylarova
	Ricardo Rodrigez	Fyodor Uvarov	Anna Lyashenko

Blind auditions

The feature The Best coach of the season (in each episode) was applied again this season.

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✔	Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button
✔	Coach pressed "I WANT YOU", even its team has already full
	Artist defaulted to a coach's team
	Artist picked a coach's team
	Artist eliminated with no coach pressing their button
✘	Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button, but was blocked by another coach from getting the artist
	Blocked by Vladimir Presnyakov   Blocked by Polina Gagarina   Blocked by Basta   Blocked by Anton Belyaev

A new feature of blind auditions this season is a block that each coach can use three times to prevent one of the other coaches from getting a contestant.

The coaches performed "Livin' la Vida Loca" at the start of the show.

Episode	Order	Artist	Age	Origin	Song	Coach's and artist's choices
						Presnyakov	Gagarina	Basta	Belyaev
Episode 1 [a] (March 3)	1	Vladislav Zotov	27	Bishkek,  Kyrgyzstan	"Кострома" / "Коляда"	✔	✔	✔	—
	2	Elmira Divaeva	28	Sterlitamak, Bashkiria	"Зима"	✔	✔	—	—
	3	Nikolay Shcherba	24	Ekaterinburg	"Survivor" / "I Will Survive"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	4	Kristina Gevorgyan	29	Bystry Istok, Altai Krai	"Знаешь ли ты?"	—	—	—	—
	5	Georgy Lituev	21	Ekaterinburg	"С тобой"	—	✔	—	—
	6	Vadim Evteev	31	Balashov, Saratov Oblast	"Umbrella"	✔	—	—	—
	7	Viktoria Solomakhina	19	Voronezh	"Обернись"	✔	✔	✘	✔
	8	Aleksandr Savelyev	38	Nizhny Novgorod	"Одинокая гармонь"	—	—	—	—
	9	Kristina Yatsenko	33	Moscow	"Levitating"	—	—	✔	—
Episode 2 [b] (March 10)	1	Lyudmila Serebryakova	21	Moscow	"На одной Земле"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	2	Denis Primak	17	Shchyolkovo, Moscow Oblast	"Le Temps Des Cathédrales"	—	✔	✔	✔
	3	Anna Agafonova	26	Kazan	"Я не умею танцевать"	—	—	—	—
	4	Masha Mey	16	Moscow	"Rolling in the Deep"	✔	✔	—	—
	5	Igor Lipnevich	36	Chișinău,  Moldova	"Грешная страсть"	—	—	—	—
	6	Gulnara Bayguzina	21	Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan	"Романс"	✘	✔	✔	✔
	7	Tais Urumidis	47	Sochi, Krasnodar Krai	"Call Me"	—	✔	—	—
	8	Egor Grigoryev	20	Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	"Евпатория"	—	—	—	—
	9	Yulia Garifullina	33	Perm	"Мир без любимого"	✔	✔	—	—
	10	Daria	35	Moscow	"Livin’ on a Prayer"	✘	✔	✔	—
Episode 3 [c] (March 17)	1	Ilya Slastyonov	27	Moscow	"Мой друг (лучше всех играет блюз)"	—	—	—	—
	2	Margarita Bagdasaryan	30	Sochi, Krasnodar Krai	"Сестричка"	✔	✔	✔	✘
	3	Ricardo Rodrigez	38	Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil	"Mas Que Nada"	—	✔	—	✔
	4	Sofia Maltseva	20	Chita	"Мне нравится, что вы больны не мной"	—	—	✔	—
	5	Fyodor Uvarov	16	Zelenograd, Moscow Oblast	"Grace Kelly"	—	✔	✔	✔
	6	Ekaterina Zhukova	31	Makiivka,  Ukraine	"Кабриолет"	—	—	—	—
	7	Vasily Shkividorov	35	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	"Broken Vow"	✔	✘	✔	✔
	8	Olesya Plotnikova	35	Engels, Saratov Oblast	"Летний дождь"	✔	—	—	—
	9	Dmitry Volkov	36	Vladimir	"Три года ты мне снилась"	—	—	—	—
	10	Irina Syshchikova	41	Bataysk, Rostov Oblast	«Dernière danse»	—	—	✔	—
Episode 4 [d] (March 24)	1	Alina Bakhshalieva	18	Saratov	"Драмы больше нет"	—	✔	✔	—
	2	Astemir Bolov	24	Nalchik	"Papaoutai"	✔	✘	✔	✔
	3	Alina Gubina	23	Efremov, Tula Oblast	"Не надо слов"	—	✔	—	—
	4	Viktoria Gissen	33	Moscow	"Всё равно ты будешь мой"	—	✔	✔	✔
	5	John Warren	54	Miami,  USA	"How Deep Is Your Love"	—	—	—	—
	6	Ilona Krasnikova	34	Kaliningrad	"Lo ti penso amore"	✔	✔	—	—
	7	Ekaterina Lesovaya	22	Krasnodar	"Виновата ли я"	—	—	—	—
	8	Roman Levin	35	Moscow	"Режиссёр"	—	—	—	—
	9	Akhmed Akhmedov	31	Bukhara,  Uzbekistan	"I Want It That Way"	✔	—	—	—
	10	Nadezhda Proskurina	37	Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast	"Снилось мне"	—	✔	✔	✔
Episode 5 [e] (March 31)	1	Anna Lyashenko	18	Tolyatti, Samara Oblast	"Ой, да степь широкая"	✔	—	—	✔
	2	Pavel Zibrov	46	Rostov-on-Don	"Я постелю тебе под ноги небо"	—	—	✔	✔
	3	Daniil and Yulia Brant	31/36	Saratov	"The Prayer"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	4	Darel Alfonso	29	Cárdenas,  Cuba	"Rebel Yell"	✔	—	—	—
	5	Anastasia Lipyanskaya	26	Stary Oskol, Belgorod Oblast	"Поднимись над суетой"	—	—	—	—
	6	Dmitry Zhukov	31	Lodeynoye Pole, Leningrad Oblast	"I'm Still Standing"	—	✔	—	—
	7	Stanislav Danshin	40	Donskoy, Tula Oblast	"Улицы ждали"	—	—	—	—
	8	Elina Aylarova	20	Vladikavkaz	"Always Remember Us This Way"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	9	Arut Grigoryan	21	Moscow	"Стану ли я счастливей"	✔	—	—	—
	10	Natalia Podolskaya	40	Mogilev,  Belarus	"If I Were a Boy"	✘	✔	✔	✔
Episode 6 [f] (April 7)	1	Ivan Romanenko	35	Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast	"La vie en rose"	✔	✔	—	—
	2	Anastasia Demidova	21	Moscow	"Всё не так просто"	—	✔	✔	—
	3	Aynur Nurpeisova	31	Kyzylorda,  Kazakhstan	"Talking to the Moon"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	4	Anzhelika Pushnova	25	Minsk,  Belarus	"Маршрутка"	—	—	—	—
	5	Sergey Korobeynikov	40	Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast	"Прыгну со скалы"	—	—	✔	—
	6	Viktoria Orbodoeva	34	Ulan-Ude	"Easy on Me"	—	—	—	—
	7	Maria Lapshina	24	Moscow	"Just Say I Love Her"	—	✔	✔	—
	8	Daniil Ushakov	24	Sarapul, Udmurtia	"Проститься"	—	—	—	—
	9	Yana Arndt	17	Chelyabinsk	"I See Red"	—	✔	—	—
	10	Evgeny Sinitsyn	29	Velsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast	"Там нет меня"	✔	✘	✔	✔
Episode 7 [g] (April 14)	1	Ilya Anopriev	36	Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai	"Полетели"	✔	✔	—	—
	2	Anastasia Kaprelyan	19	Rostov-on-Don	"Só Danço Samba"	Team full	✔	✔	✔
	3	Ilya Kuzmitskiy	30	Novobureysky, Amur Oblast	"Солнце"		—	—	—
	4	Anvar Dzhuraev	43	Tashkent  Uzbekistan	"Cose della Vita"		✔	✔	✔
	5	Polina Kuzmina	21	Moscow	"Милая"		✔	✔	—
	6	Alexey Gorbunov	36	Saint Petersburg	"Город влюблённых"		—	Team full	—
	7	Yulia Dementyeva	32	Muravlenko, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug	"I Wanna Dance with Somebody"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	8	Petr Login	35	Chișinău,  Moldova	"Ворона"	Team full	—	Team full	—
	9	Anastasia Barannikova	29	Essentuki, Stavropol Krai	"Nothing Compares 2 U"		✔		—
	10	Asta Khachartyan	37	Vanadzor,  Armenia	"Sex Bomb"		Team full		—
	11	Viktoria Knyazhevskaya	30	Ivanovo	"Ау"	✔	✔	✔	✔

The Battles

The Battle Rounds will be starting on April 21, 2023. No steal were available. Contestants who win their battle would advance to the Knockout rounds.

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

Episode	Coach	Order	Winner	Song	Loser
Episode 8 (April 21) [h]	Basta	1	Polina Kuzmina	«Ленинградский рок-н-ролл» / «Кошки» / «Жёлтые ботинки» / «Вася»	Viktoria Gissen
	Polina Gagarina	2	Vladislav Zotov	«Широка река»	Alina Gubina
	Vladimir Presnyakov	3	Elmira Divaeva	«Can’t Help Falling in Love»	Yulia Garifullina
	Anton Belyaev	4	Astemir Bolov	«Глупые люди»	Anna Lyashenko
	Basta	5	Irina Syshchikova	«Как любовь твою понять?»	Anvar Dzhuraev
	Polina Gagarina	6	Ilona Krasnikova	«Кошачий дуэт»	Tais Urumidis
	Vladimir Presnyakov	7	Masha Mey	«По-другому»	Vadim Evteev
	Anton Belyaev	8	Daniil & Yulia Brant's	«Последняя поэма»	Fyodor Uvarov
	Basta	9	Alina Bakhshalieva	«In and Out of Love»	Kristina Yatsenko
	Polina Gagarina	10	Yana Arndt	«Одно и то же»	Denis Primak
	Anton Belyaev	11	Anastasia Kaprelyan	«Águas de Março»	Ricardo Rodrigez
	Vladimir Presnyakov	12	Lyudmila Serebryakova	«Кукла колдуна»	Olesya Plotnikova
Episode 9 (April 28) [i]	Vladimir Presnyakov	1	Akhmed Akhmedov	«Фантазёр»	Ilya Anopriev
	Anton Belyaev	2	Viktoria Knyazhevskaya	«Пропадаю я»	Ellina Aylarova
	Polina Gagarina	3	Anastasia Barannikova	«Padam, padam...»	Ivan Romanenko
	Basta	4	Anastasia Demidova	«Фонари»	Sofia Maltseva
	Vladimir Presnyakov	5	Arut Grigoryan	«Беги»	Vasily Shkividorov
					Evgeny Sinitsyn
	Anton Belyaev	6	Nikolay Shcherba	«Отпускаю»	Yulia Dementyeva
	Basta	7	Pavel Zibrov	«Roses»	Daria
	Polina Gagarina	8	Nadezhda Proskurina	«Белая ночь»	Dmitry Zhukov
	Vladimir Presnyakov	9	Margarita Bagdasaryan	«Gossip» / «Всё нормально»	Darel Alfonso
	Polina Gagarina	10	Viktoria Solomakhina	«Ты здесь»	Georgy Lituev
	Anton Belyaev	11	Gulnara Bayguzina	«Lose Yourself»	Aynur Nurpeisova
Basta	12	Maria Lapshina	«Земля»	Sergey Korobeynikov

The Knockouts

The Knockout Rounds started on May 5, 2023. Similar to the previous season, each coach pairs three artists into one knockout with only one contestant from the trio advances to the next round and also can steal one losing artist from another coach. The top 12 contestants moved on to the Quarterfinal.

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	Artist won the Knockout and advanced to the Quarterfinal
	Artist lost the Knockout but was stolen by another coach and advanced to the Quarterfinal
	Artist lost the Knockout and was eliminated

Episode	Coach	Order	Song	Artists		Song	'Steal' result
				Winner	Losers		Presnyakov	Gagarina	Basta	Belyaev
Episode 10 (May 5) [j]	Polina Gagarina	1	«Ласточка»	Viktoria Solomakhina	Vladislav Zotov	«Ты не верь слезам»	—	—	—	—
					Ilona Krasnikova	«Волшебная флейта» / «Highway to Hell»	—		—	—
	Vladimir Presnyakov	2	«Я хочу быть с тобой»	Margarita Bagdasaryan	Lyudmila Serebryakova	«Посмотри в глаза»	—	✔	✔	—
					Arut Grigoryan	«Сука любовь»		—	Team full	—
	Anton Belyaev	3	«Losing My Religion»	Nikolay Shcherba	Yulia & Daniil Brant	«Плачут небеса»	—	—		—
					Viktoria Knyazhevskaya	«Ищу тебя»	—	—
	Basta	4	«Ничего не бойся»	Pavel Zibrov	Irina Syshchikova	«Euphoria»	✔	✔		✔
					Anastasia Demidova	«Моя звезда»	—	—		Team full
Episode 11 (May 12) [k]	Anton Belyaev	1	«Никаких больше вечеринок»	Gulnara Bayguzina	Astemir Bolov	«Con te partirò»	—	—	Team full	Team full
					Anastasia Kaprelyan	«Нежность»	—	—
	Polina Gagarina	2	«History Repeating»	Nadezhda Proskurina	Yana Arndt	«Вьюга»	—	—
					Anastasia Barannikova	«Катастрофически»	—
	Vladimir Presnyakov	3	«Про любовь»	Elmira Divaeva	Akhmed Akhmedov	«Солнце»	—	✔
					Masha Mey	«Ты узнаешь её»		Team full
	Basta	4	«Вселиственный венок» / «А кто нас покрывать будет?»	Maria Lapshina	Alina Bakhshalieva	«Рокки»	✔
					Polina Kuzmina	«Mon Dieu»	Team full

Live shows

Colour key:

	Artist was saved
	Artist was eliminated

Week 1: Top 12 — Quarterfinal (May 19)

The Live Top 12 Quarterfinal comprised episode 12. The top twelve artists performed, with two artists from each team advancing based on the sum of the viewers' and coach's votes.

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Coach's vote (/100%)	Public's vote (/100%)	Votes' sum	Result
Episode 12 (May 19) [l]	Polina Gagarina	1	Nadezhda Proskurina	«Ясный мой свет»	50%	13,6%	63,6%	Advanced
		2	Akhmed Akhmedov	«Arcade»	20%	15,7%	35,7%	Eliminated
		3	Viktoria Solomakhina	«Выше»	30%	70,7%	100,7%	Advanced
	Basta	4	Maria Lapshina	«Туда»	30%	31,7%	61,7%	Eliminated
		5	Pavel Zibrov	«На заре»	50%	25,3%	75,3%	Advanced
		6	Lyudmila Serebryakova	«Белая песня»	20%	43%	63%	Advanced
	Anton Belyaev	7	Nikolay Shcherba	«Я люблю тебя до слёз»	50%	25%	75%	Advanced
		8	Gulnara Bayguzina	«Missing»	30%	29,5%	59,5%	Eliminated
		9	Irina Syshchikova	«Не обижай меня»	20%	45,5%	65,5%	Advanced
	Vladimir Presnyakov	10	Alina Bakhshalieva	«Ты где-то»	20%	20,6%	40,6%	Eliminated
		11	Elmira Divaeva	«А на море белый песок»	50%	45,9%	95,9%	Advanced
		12	Margarita Bagdasaryan	«Прощай»	30%	33,5%	63,5%	Advanced

Week 2: Top 8 — Semifinal (May 26)

The top eight artists performed on May 26, 2023, with one artist from each team advancing to the Final based on the sum of the viewers' and coach's votes

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Coach's vote (/100%)	Public's vote (/100%)	Votes' sum	Result
Episode 13 (May 26) [m]	Anton Belyaev	1	Irina Syshchikova	"Луч солнца золотого"	60%	56,5%	116,5%	Advanced
		2	Nikolay Shcherba	"What Is Love"	40%	43,5%	83,5%	Eliminated
	Basta	3	Pavel Zibrov	"Белые льдины"	40%	32,6%	72,6%	Eliminated
		4	Lyudmila Serebryakova	"Улица роз"	60%	67,4%	127,4%	Advanced
	Polina Gagarina	5	Nadezhda Proskurina	"All by Myself"	40%	30,3%	70,3%	Eliminated
		6	Viktoria Solomakhina	"Зима в сердце"	60%	69,7%	129,7%	Advanced
	Vladimir Presnyakov	7	Margarita Bagdasaryan	"Половина сердца"	60%	26,7%	86,7%	Eliminated
		8	Elmira Divaeva	"Зурбаган"	40%	73,3%	113,3%	Advanced

Trios

Order	Performer	Song
13.1	Leonid Agutin, Irina Syshchikova and Nikolay Shcherba	"Ты вернёшься когда-нибудь снова"
13.2	Anna Asti, Pavel Zibrov and Lyudmila Serebryakova	"Хобби"
13.3	Jony, Nadezhda Proskurina and Viktoria Solomakhina	"Никак"
13.4	Lolita, Margarita Bagdasaryan and Elmira Divaeva	"Шампанское"

Week 3: Final (June 2)

As like the previous seasons, the winner will be determined through public votes alone. The artist with the highest percentage of votes will be declared as the winner.

Viktoria Solomakhina was announced the winner, marking Polina Gagarina's second win as a coach. Polina Gagarina became the first female coach in the history of the Russian Voice to win more than one season.

Episode	Coach	Artist	Order	Duet Song (with Coach)	Order	Solo Song (no.1)	Order	Solo Song (no.2)	Result
Episode 13 June 2)
	Basta	Lyudmila Serebryakova	1	«Обернись»	5	«Мой первый день»	«Я Буду Помнить»		Fourth place
	Anton Belyaev	Irina Syshchikova	2	«My Love Is Like»	6	«Любовь настала»	9	«Ain't Nobody's Business»	Third Place
	Vladimir Presnyakov	Elmira Divaeva	3	«Стюардесса по имени Жанна»	7	«The Best»	10	«Была любовь»	43,2%	Second place
	Polina Gagarina	Viktoria Solomakhina	4	«Колыбельная»	8	«Не молчи»	11	«Полёт на дельтаплане»	56,8%	Winner

Best Coach

Colour key

Best Coach   Second place   Third place   Fourth place

Episode's Best Coach

Coach	Public's vote (per episode)														Result
	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	#11	#12	#13	Av.
Basta	40%	43%	49%	50%	45%	46%	53%	45%	45%	48%	48%	45%	49%	47%	Best coach
Polina Gagarina	32%	28%	21%	22%	24%	24%	17%	25%	21%	21%	22%	23%	21%	23%	Second place
Vladimir Presnyakov	19%	21%	17%	16%	20%	19%	21%	20%	24%	22%	21%	20%	20%	20%	Third place
Anton Belyaev	9%	8%	13%	12%	11%	11%	9%	10%	10%	9%	9%	12%	10%	10%	Fourth place

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. Basta is The best coach of episode 7.
8. Basta is The best coach of episode 8.
9. Basta is The best coach of episode 9.
10. Basta is The best coach of episode 10.
11. Basta is The best coach of episode 11.
12. Basta is The best coach of episode 12.
13. Basta is The best coach of episode 13.