The Voice (Russian TV series) season 7

The seventh season of the Russian reality talent show The Voice, that was called "Reloading", premiered on October 12, 2018, on Channel One.^[1] Dmitry Nagiev returned as the show's presenter. On August 22, 2018, Channel One announced that Basta, Ani Lorak, Sergey Shnurov, and Konstantin Meladze became the coaches.^[2]

The Voice
Season 7
Presented by	Dmitry Nagiev
Coaches	Basta Ani Lorak Sergey Shnurov Konstantin Meladze
Winner	Petr Zakharov
Winning coach	Konstantin Meladze
Runner-up	Amirkhan Umaev
Release
Original network	Channel One
Original release	October 12, 2018 (2018-10-12) – January 1, 2019 (2019-01-01)
Season chronology

Petr Zakharov was named winner of the season. With his victory, Konstantin Meladze became the second new coach to win on his first season, behind Grigory Leps. ^[3]

Coaches and presenter

The Voice season 7 coaches

Basta

Ani Lorak

Sergey Shnurov

Konstantin Meladze

On August 22, 2018, Channel One announced the names of the coaches. Basta replaced Dima Bilan and returned for his 2nd season as a coach after a two season-break. Ani Lorak, Sergey Shnurov, and Konstantin Meladze replaced Pelageya, Alexander Gradsky, and Leonid Agutin as new coaches for the show.

Dmitry Nagiyev returned for his 7th season as a presenter.

Teams

Colour key

Winner   Runner-up   Third place   Fourth place

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

Coaches	Top 48 artists
Basta
	Shaen Oganesyan	Andrey Polyakov	Darya Shigina	Ksena Ivanova	Konstantin Biteev
	Karina Arbelyani	Alexandra Zakharik	Sergey Lamas	Anna Pingina	Laura Plenkina
	Yury Pak	Valeria Bugorskaya	Sergey Arutyunov
Ani Lorak
	Amirkhan Umaev	Uku Suviste	Sofia Legran	Daniel Rustamov	Olga Shitova
	Thomas Grazioso	Tatyana Paradnaya	Arina Bagaryakova	Taymuraz Khadartsev	Arpi Abkaryan
	Valery Anokhin	Alexandra Kruglova	Oleg Shaumarov
Sergey Shnurov
	Rushana Valieva	Daniel Rustamov	Annagazel Gokinaeva	Tatyana Shabanova	Shaen Oganesyan
	Sofia Legran	Daria Grossman	Jack Gypsy	Iliana Sanchez	Rita Kron
	Taina Souers	Marianna Georgiadu	Sergey Mushta
Konstantin Meladze
	Petr Zakharov	Sofia Tarasova	Tatyana Shabanova	Yuliana Belyaeva	Valerio Sgargi
	Marzhana Makisheva	Levan Kbilashvili	Lusia Znamenskaya	Ekaterina Korotkova	Svetlana Zhavoronkova
	Narek Gevorgyan	Grigoriy Zalezhnev	Ruslan Umkhanov
Note: Italicized names are stolen contestans (names struck through within former names).

Blind auditions

A new feature this season is The Best coach of the season (also in each episode).

Colour key

✔	Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button
	Artist defaulted to a coach's team
	Artist picked a coach's team
	Artist eliminated with no coach pressing their button

The coaches performed "Live is Life" at the start of the show.

Episode	Order	Artist	Age	Origin	Song	Coach's and artist's choices
						Basta	Lorak	Shnurov	Meladze
Episode 1 [a] (October 12)	1	Darya Shigina	21	Kineshma, Ivanovo oblast	"Heaven"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	2	Taymuraz Khadartsev	32	Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia	"Три года ты мне снилась"	✔	✔	—	—
	3	Agnessa Koroleva	27	Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk oblast	"Roar"	—	—	—	—
	4	Sergey Mushta	31	Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod oblast	"Как жаль"	✔	✔	✔	—
	5	Annagazel Gokinaeva	26	Minsk, Belarus	"Feel It Still"	✔	—	✔	—
	6	Sergey Druzhkov	30	Kovrov, Vladimir oblast	"I Wish"	—	—	—	—
	7	Alexandra Stepanova	26	Minsk, Belarus	"Ты дарила мне розы"	—	—	—	—
	8	Sofia Tarasova	17	St. Petersburg	"I'm Your Baby Tonight"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	9	Karina Arbelyani	30	Snizhne, Ukraine	"Нет, мой милый"	✔	—	✔	—
	10	Sergey Lamas	33	Nizhny Novgorod / Krasnodar	"Thinking Out Loud"	✔	—	—	—
	11	Oskar Takhaviev	39	Kazan, Tatarstan	"Mas que nada"	—	—	—	—
	12	Svetlana Zhavoronkova	29	Moscow	"Усталое такси"	—	—	—	✔
Episode 2 [b] (October 19)	1	Jack Gypsy	29	Artemisa, Cuba	"Smoke on the Water"	✔	—	✔	—
	2	Alexandra Zakharik	29	Minsk, Belarus	"Ты глядел на меня"	✔	—	✔	✔
	3	Amirkhan Umaev	27	Grozny, Chechnya	"Miserere"	✔	✔	—	—
	4	Laura Plenkina	28	Moscow	"Hit 'em Up Style"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	5	Ekaterina Korotkova	17	Voronezh, Voronezh oblast	"Hava Nagila"	—	✔	—	✔
	6	Eldar Babaev	33	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	"Сука-любовь"	—	—	—	—
	7	Taina Souers	31	Moscow	"Hallelujah I Love Her So"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	8	Anna Vorfolomeeva	30	Volgograd, Volgograd oblast	"Ветер знает"	—	—	—	—
	9	Vladislav Korolev	24	Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk oblast	"I'm Not the Only One"	—	—	—	—
	10	Lusia Znamenskaya	31	Chișinău, Moldova	"Любовь – волшебная страна"	—	—	✔	✔
	11	Arina Bagaryakova	17	Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk oblast	"Yesterday"	—	✔	—	—
Episode 3 [c] (October 26)	1	Evgenia Otradnaya	32	Korolev, Moscow oblast	"Звенит январская вьюга"	—	—	—	—
	2	Shaen Oganesyan	27	St. Petersburg	"I've Got a Woman"	✔	✔	✔	—
	3	"Vasily Pupkin"	28	Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk oblast	"Got My Mind Set on You"	—	—	—	—
	4	Anastasia Martynova	23	St. Petersburg	"Ты не стал судьбой"	—	—	—	—
	5	Anna Pingina	40	Moscow / Tokyo, Japan	"Говорила мне бабка лютая"	✔	—	✔	✔
	6	Valerio Sgargi	38	Milan, Italy	"I've Got You Under My Skin"	—	✔	—	✔
	7	Natalia Larionova	22	Tomsk, Tomsk oblast	"Обними меня"	—	—	—	—
	8	Rushana Valieva	19	Tolbazy, Bashkortostan	"Пообiцяй менi"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	9	Olga Shitova	27	Pyt-Yakh, Yugra	"I Wanna Dance"	—	✔	—	—
	10	Valery Anokhin	55	Moscow	"Синева, пустота, тишина"	—	✔	—	—
	11	Konstantin Biteev	25	St. Petersburg	"When We Were Young"	✔	—	—	—
	12	Alexandra Kruglova	23	Moscow	"If I Were a Boy"	—	✔	—	—
Episode 4 [d] (November 2)	1	Yuliana Belyaeva	29	Minsk, Belarus	"They Won't Go When I Go"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	2	Oleg Shaumarov	34	Moscow / Tashkent, Uzbekistan	"Вдвоём"	✔	✔	—	—
	3	Rita Kron	27	Moscow	"It's Raining Men"	✔	✔	✔	—
	4	Maksim Lidov	32	Egoryevsk, Moscow oblast	"Le temps des cathédrales"	—	—	—	—
	5	Valeria Bugorskaya	19	Barnaul, Altai krai	"Каждый раз"	✔	—	—	—
	6	Tatyana Paradnaya	42	Moscow / Berlin, Germany	"Private Dancer"	—	✔	—	—
	7	Sergey Arkhipov	26	Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk oblast	"On the Sunny Side of the Street"	—	—	—	—
	8	Tatyana Shabanova	23	Engels, Saratov oblast	"Индиго"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	9	Natalya Pugacheva	23	Voronezh, Voronezh oblast	"В кейптаунском порту"	—	—	—	—
	10	Uku Suviste	36	Tallinn, Estonia	"Perfect"	—	✔	✔	—
	11	Nika Gavrilova	27	St. Petersburg	"Место для шага вперёд"	—	—	—	—
	12	Arpi Abkaryan	25	Sochi, Krasnodar krai	"Dangerous Woman"	✔	✔	—	—
Episode 5 [e] (November 9)	1	Petr Zakharov	38	St. Petersburg	"Смуглянка"	✔	—	✔	✔
	2	Iliana Sanchez	25	Holguín, Cuba	"Yo Vivire"	—	—	✔	—
	3	Sergey Arutyunov	32	Moscow	"Send Me an Angel"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	4	Veronika Danilova	48	Elektrostal, Moscow oblast	"Дельфины"	—	—	—	—
	5	Marzhana Makisheva	30	Moscow / Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan	"Love on the Brain"	✔	✔	—	✔
	6	Viktor Ivanov	30	Bataysk, Rostov oblast	"Выхода нет"	—	—	—	—
	7	Ksena Ivanova	33	Moscow	"Отпусти меня"	✔	—	✔	—
	8	Daniel Rustamov	23	Dushanbe, Tajikistan	"Versace on the Floor"	✔	✔	✔	—
	9	Levan Kbilashvili	27	Tbilisi, Georgia	"Patara gogo" / "Turfa"	—	—	—	✔
	10	Anastasia Zakharova	31	St. Petersburg	"Городок"	—	—	—	—
	11	Sona Dunoyan	21	Masis, Armenia	"Ciao Adios"	—	—	—	—
	12	Andrey Polyakov	32	Vologda, Vologda oblast	"Dazed and Confused"	✔	—	✔	—
Episode 6 [f] (November 16)	1	Anastasia Prokosheva	25	Glazov, Udmurtia	"Hora din Moldova"	—	—	—	—
	2	Narek Gevorgyan	28	Krasnodar, Krasnodar krai	"Я не могу без тебя"	—	—	✔	✔
	3	Sofia Legran	21	Sochi, Krasnodar krai	"Love Me Again"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	4	Valentin Khmelev	26	Surgut, Yugra	"Что так сердце растревожено"	—	—	—	—
	5	Thomas Grazioso	33	Rome, Italy	"Every Breath You Take"	✔	✔	✔	✔
	6	Daria Grossman	17	Petrozavodsk, Karelia	"Stronger Than Me"	✔	Team full	✔	—
	7	Svetlana Afanasyeva	20	Tula, Tula oblast	"Драмы больше нет"	—		—	—
	8	Yury Pak	19	Moscow	"Gangnam Style"	✔		—	—
	9	Radmira Yakubova	22	Moscow	"Rehab"	Team full		—	—
	10	Ruslan Umkhanov	23	Tolstoy-Yurt, Chechnya	"Here Without You"			—	✔
	11	Marianna Georgiadu	26	Thessaloniki, Greece	"Шопен"			✔	—
	12	Grigoriy Zalezhnev	26	St. Petersburg	"Rebel Yell"			Team full	✔

The Battles

The Battle Rounds started on November 23. For the second time in the series' history the coaches can't steal two losing artists from other coaches. Contestants who win their battle will 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 23) [g]	Konstantin Meladze	1	Valerio Sgargi	"Torna a Surriento"	Ruslan Umkhanov
	Basta	2	Darya Shigina	"We Will Rock You" / "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"	Sergey Arutyunov
	Sergey Shnurov	3	Rushana Valieva	"Наше лето"	Sergey Mushta
	Ani Lorak	4	Daniel Rustamov	"Believer"	Oleg Shaumarov
	Basta	5	Alexandra Zakharik	"Плохо танцевать"	Valeria Bugorskaya
	Konstantin Meladze	6	Yuliana Belyaeva	"Beat It"	Grigoriy Zalezhnev
	Sergey Shnurov	7	Annagozel Gokinaeva	"Старый отель"	Taina Sauers
	Ani Lorak	8	Uku Suviste	"Love Runs Out"	Alexandra Kruglova
	Sergey Shnurov	9	Shaen Oganesyan	"Не плачь"	Marianna Georgiadu
	Konstantin Meladze	10	Levan Kbilashvili	"Махинджи вар"	Narek Gevorgyan
	Ani Lorak	11	Tatyana Paradnaya	"Мой первый день без тебя"	Valeriy Anokhin
	Basta	12	Andrey Polyakov	"Это всё..."	Yury Pak
Episode 8 (November 30) [h]	Sergey Shnurov	1	Daria Grossman	"Стюардесса по имени Жанна"	Rita Kron
	Basta	2	Konstantin Biteev	""Perfect Duet" version"	Laura Plenkina
	Konstantin Meladze	3	Marzhana Makisheva	"Purple Rain"	Svetlana Zhavoronkova
	Ani Lorak	4	Amirkhan Umaev	"Беги по небу"	Arpi Abkaryan
	Sergey Shnurov	5	Tatyana Shabanova	"Bang Bang"	Iliana Sanchez
	Ani Lorak	6	Olga Shitova	"Жить в твоей голове"	Taymuraz Khadartsev
	Basta	7	Karina Arbelyani	"Otherwise"	Anna Pingina
	Konstantin Meladze	8	Sofia Tarasova	"Обiйми"	Ekaterina Korotkova
	Sergey Shnurov	9	Sofia Legran	"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"	Jack Gypsy
	Basta	10	Ksena Ivanova	"Лето без тебя"	Sergey Lamas
	Ani Lorak	11	Thomas Grazioso	"Set Fire to the Rain"	Arina Bagaryakova
	Konstantin Meladze	12	Petr Zakharov	"Давай присядем и поговорим"	Lusia Znamenskaya

The Knockouts

The Knockout Rounds started on December 7. Each coach pairs three artists into one knockout with only one contestant from the trio advances to the next round. But the coaches for the first time in the show's history on this stage can steal one losing artist from another coach. The top 12 contestants will then move on to the Quarterfinal.

Colour key

	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		Basta	Lorak	Shnurov	Meladze
Episode 9 (December 7) [i]	Konstantin Meladze	1	"Love Story"	Petr Zakharov	Marzhana Makisheva	"До свидания, мама!"	—	—	—	—
					Levan Kbilashvili	"Очарована, околдована"	—	—	—	—
	Sergey Shnurov	2	"Мало половин"	Rushana Valieva	Shaen Oganesyan	"Полёт на дельтаплане"	✔	—	—	—
					Sofia Legran	"Shallow"	Team full	✔	—	—
	Ani Lorak	3	"I'm Not the Only One"	Uku Suviste	Tatyana Paradnaya	"Whatever Lola Wants"		Team full	—	—
					Daniel Rustamov	"Лейла"			✔	—
	Basta	4	"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"	Andrey Polyakov	Alexandra Zakharik	"Down on My Knees"			Team full	—
					Karina Arbelyani	"Что я тебе сделала"				—
Episode 10 (December 14) [j]	Basta	1	"Снег"	Darya Shigina	Konstantin Biteev	"Моё сердце"	Team full	Team full	Team full	—
					Ksena Ivanova	"Killing Me Softly with His Song"				—
	Sergey Shnurov	2	"Розовый фламинго"	Annagozel Gokinaeva	Daria Grossman	"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"				—
					Tatyana Shabanova	"Новый герой"				✔
	Ani Lorak	3	"Я вернусь"	Amirkhan Umaev	Olga Shitova	"Плакала"				Team full
					Tomas Grazioso	"Ja tebia liubliu"
	Konstantin Meladze	4	"Ты отпусти"	Sofia Tarasova	Yuliana Belyaeva	"Lullaby of Birdland"
					Valerio Sgargi	"Shake a Tail Feather"

Live shows

Colour key:

	Artist was saved
	Artist was eliminated

Week 1: Top 12 — Quarterfinal (December 21)

The Live Top 12 Quarterfinal comprised episode 11. 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 11 (December 21) [k]	Basta	1	Shaen Oganesyan	"Livin' la Vida Loca"	20%	53.5%	73.5%	Advanced
		2	Darya Shigina	"Медуза"	30%	24.5%	54.5%	Eliminated
		3	Andrey Polyakov	"Олимпиада-80"	50%	22%	72%	Advanced
	Ani Lorak	4	Sofia Legrand	"Я пою"	20%	16.2%	36.2%	Eliminated
		5	Uku Suviste	"Кеды"	50%	10.9%	60.9%	Advanced
		6	Amirkhan Umaev	"Nessun dorma"	30%	72.9%	102.9%	Advanced
	Konstantin Meladze	7	Tatyana Shabanova	"Малыш"	20%	7.3%	27.3%	Eliminated
		8	Sofia Tarasova	"Американская жена"	30%	23.7%	53.7%	Advanced
		9	Petr Zakharov	"Две гитары"	50%	69%	119%	Advanced
	Sergey Shnurov	10	Daniel Rustamov	"Natural"	20%	37%	57%	Advanced
		11	Rushana Valieva	"Прыгну со скалы"	50%	43.7%	93.7%	Advanced
		12	Annagazel Gokinaeva	"I Shot the Sheriff"	30%	19.3%	49.3%	Eliminated

Week 2: Top 8 — Semifinal (December 28)

The top eight artists performed on December 28, 2018, 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 12 (December 28) [l]	Sergey Shnurov	1	Daniel Rustamov	"Treasure"	40%	30.1%	70.1%	Eliminated
		2	Rushana Valieva	"Ариведерчи"	60%	69.9%	129.9%	Advanced
	Ani Lorak	3	Amirkhan Umaev	"Con te partirò"	60%	81.3%	141.3%	Advanced
		4	Uku Suviste	"You Raise Me Up"	40%	18.7%	58.7%	Eliminated
	Basta	5	Andrey Polyakov	"Евпатория"	40%	29.4%	69.4%	Eliminated
		6	Shaen Oganesyan	"Вахтёрам"	60%	70.6%	130.6%	Advanced
	Konstantin Meladze	7	Sofia Tarasova	"We Are the World"	40%	34.4%	74.4%	Eliminated
		8	Petr Zakharov	"The World We Knew"	60%	65.6%	125.6%	Advanced

Trios

Order	Performer	Song
12.1	Philipp Kirkorov, Daniel Rustamov, and Rushana Valieva	"Цвет настроения синий"
12.2	A-Studio, Amirkhan Umaev, and Uku Suviste	"Песенка про меня"
12.3	Aya, Andrey Polyakov, and Shaen Oganesyan	"Останусь"
12.4	Valery Meladze, Sofia Tarasova, and Petr Zakharov	"Красиво"

Week 3: Final (January 1)

The Top 4 artists performed on January 1, 2019. This week, the four finalists performed two solo cover songs and a duet with their coach.

Coach	Artist	Order	Duet Song (with Coach)	Order	Solo Song (no.1)	Order	Solo Song (no.2)	Result
Basta	Shaen Oganesyan	1	"Stay"	5	"Чистые пруды"	Eliminated		Fourth Place
Ani Lorak	Amirkhan Umaev	2	"Верни мою любовь"	6	"Il Mondo"	9	"Мама"	45.9%	Runner-up
Sergey Shnurov	Rushana Valieva	3	"Мой голос"	7	"Город золотой"	10	"Toxic"	Third Place
Konstantin Meladze	Petr Zakharov	4	"Опять метель"	8	"Русское поле"	11	"Останься"	54.1%	Winner

Non-competition performances

Order	Performer	Song
13.1	Shaen Oganesyan, Amirkhan Umaev, Rushana Valieva, and Petr Zakharov	"Новый Год мы встретим с тобой"
13.2	Shaen Oganesyan	"Let It Snow"
13.3	Petr Zakharov (winner)	"Смуглянка"
13.4	Top 48 artists	"Здесь проигравших нет"

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	Av.
Sergey Shnurov	30%	28%	27%	26%	25%	24%	38%	37%	40%	43%	46%	48%	34%	Best Coach
Konstantin Meladze	29%	25%	32%	35%	40%	42%	30%	29%	29%	27%	25%	23%	30%	Second place
Basta	28%	35%	30%	27%	27%	24%	23%	24%	21%	19%	17%	17%	24%	Third place
Ani Lorak	13%	12%	11%	12%	8%	10%	9%	10%	10%	11%	12%	12%	12%	Fourth place

Reception

Rating

Episode		Original airdate	Production	Time slot (UTC+3)	Audience		Source
					Rating	Share
1	"The Blind Auditions Premiere"	October 12, 2018 (2018-10-12)	701	Friday 9:30 p.m.	5.2	18.6	[4]
2	"The Blind Auditions, Part 2"	October 19, 2018 (2018-10-19)	702		4.7	16.8	[5]
3	"The Blind Auditions, Part 3"	October 26, 2018 (2018-10-26)	703		4.9	17.6	[6]
4	"The Blind Auditions, Part 4"	November 2, 2018 (2018-11-02)	704		5.2	18.3	[7]
5	"The Blind Auditions, Part 5"	November 9, 2018 (2018-11-09)	705		5.9	20.4	[8]
6	"The Blinds End"	November 16, 2018 (2018-11-16)	706		5.5	18.4	[9]
7	"The Battles Premiere"	November 23, 2018 (2018-11-23)	707		4.7	17.2	[10]
8	"The Battles, Part 2"	November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30)	708		4.5	15.8	[11]
9	"The Knockouts Premiere"	December 7, 2018 (2018-12-07)	709		4.7	16.4	[12]
10	"The Knockouts, Part 2"	December 14, 2018 (2018-12-14)	710		4.5	14.7	[13]
11	"Live Top 12 Quarterfinal"	December 21, 2018 (2018-12-21)	711		4.3	14.1	[14]
12	"Live Top 8 Semifinal"	December 28, 2018 (2018-12-28)	712		3.9	13.4	[15]
13	"Live Season Final"	January 1, 2019 (2019-01-01)	713	Tuesday 8:00 p.m.	5.3	16.1	[16]

Notes

1. Sergey Shnurov is The best coach of episode 1.
2. Basta is The best coach of episode 2.
3. Konstantin Meladze is The best coach of episode 3.
4. Konstantin Meladze is The best coach of episode 4.
5. Konstantin Meladze is The best coach of episode 5.
6. Konstantin Meladze is The best coach of episode 6.
7. Sergey Shnurov is The best coach of episode 7.
8. Sergey Shnurov is The best coach of episode 8.
9. Sergey Shnurov is The best coach of episode 9.
10. Sergey Shnurov is The best coach of episode 10.
11. Sergey Shnurov is The best coach of episode 11.
12. Sergey Shnurov is The best coach of episode 12.