The Voice Kids (Russian TV series) season 8

The eighth season of the Russian reality talent show The Voice Kids premiered on 12 February 2021 on Channel One. Dmitry Nagiev and Agata Muceniece returned as the show's presenters. Basta returned as a coach, LOBODA returned as a coach after a one-season break and replaced Polina Gagarina, Egor Kreed replaced Valery Meladze and became a new coach for the show.

The Voice Kids
Season 8
Presented by	Dmitry Nagiev Agata Muceniece
Coaches	Basta LOBODA Egor Kreed
Winner	Vladislav Tyukin
Winning coach	LOBODA
Runner-up	Elizaveta Trofimova
Release
Original network	Channel One
Original release	February 12 (2021-02-12) – April 30, 2021 (2021-04-30)
Season chronology

Vladislav Tyukin was announced the winner on April 30, 2021, marking LOBODA's first win as the coach and the second female coach to win in the show's history behind Pelageya.^[1]

Basta became the Best coach of the season for the second time in a row, LOBODA, as in season 6, became third.

Coaches and presenters

The Voice Kids season 8 coaches

Basta

LOBODA

Egor Kreed

Dmitry Nagiev and Agata Muceniece

There were two changes to the coaching panel. Basta was joined by LOBODA, who returned after a one-season break and Egor Kreed as a new coach.

Dmitry Nagiev and Agata Muceniece returned as the show's presenters.

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
	Mariya Politikova	Kira Gogoladze	Timofey Zavalinich	Vasilisa Suyunova	Polina Danilchenko
	Polina Li	Gabriel Aleksandrov	Ay-Herel Shuluu	Arina Milenko	Valeriya Bochenkova
	Ekaterina Tabarina	Diana Vakhiba	Denis Kucher	Elizaveta Khenkina	Anna Yurkevich
LOBODA
	Vladislav Tyukin	Sofiya Fanta	Yuliya Gavrilova	Miron Provorov	Kseniya Kovalenko
	Makar Smyslov	Vasilisa Grushevskaya	Anna Kachurovskaya	Elizaveta Rogozina	Andrey Averin
	Polina Syutkina	Yalky Saka	Milana Kompanichenko	Safina Shafigulina	Varvara Butko
Egor Kreed
	Elizaveta Trofimova	Alisa Trifonova	Anna Volkova	Georgiy Dzeboev	Sofiya Medvedeva
	Arseniy Slesarev	Evgeniya Gaydova	Pyotr Zatolochny	Daniel Golyana	Margarita Bavskaya
	Eva Poklonskaya	Eva Temnyuk	Taisiya Khabibullina	Kirill Tomilin	Stanislav Kashevarov
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

Episode	Order	Artist	Age	Hometown	Song	Coach's and artist's choices
						Basta	LOBODA	Kreed
Episode 1 [a] (February 12)	1	Miron Provorov	7	Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast	"Батарейка" / "F-R-I-E-N-D-S"	✔	✔	✔
	2	Alisa Trifonova	12	Moscow	"Shallow"	✔	✔	✔
	3	Elizaveta Khenkina	10	Kaluga	"Evil Gal Blues"	✔	✔	—
	4	Maksim Tolkachyov	10	Moscow	"Прятки"	—	—	—
	5	Milana Kompanichenko	15	Lobnya, Moscow Oblast	"Idontwannabeyouanymore"	✔	✔	—
	6	Alisa Shcherban	7	Moscow	"Tutti Frutti"	—	—	—
	7	Makar Smyslov	11	Ivanovo	"Львиное сердце"	✔	✔	✔
	8	Sofiya Fanta	13	Ramenskoye, Moscow Oblast	"Run to You"	—	✔	—
	9	Polina Danilchenko	8	Moscow	"Bim bam toi"	✔	—	—
	10	Fyodor Shpagin	13	Arzamas, Nizhy Novgorod Oblast	"Я не умею танцевать"	—	—	—
	11	Taisiya Khabibullina	10	Surgut, Yugra	«Broken Vow»	—	—	✔
Episode 2 [b] (February 20)	1	Mariya Politikova	13	Ryazan	«Реченька»	✔	✔	✔
	2	Andrey Averin	8	Saint-Petersburg	«Les Temps des Cathedrales»	✔	✔	✔
	3	Arina Milenko	14	Chelyabinsk	«Sing, sing, sing»	✔	—	✔
	4	Fyodor Uvarov	14	Moscow	«Поздний вечер в Сорренто»	—	—	—
	5	Anna Volkova	8	Moscow	«My Heart Will Go On»	—	—	✔
	6	Vasilisa Kozhemyakina	9	Moscow	«L-O-V-E»	—	—	—
	7	Georgiy Dzeboev	13	Vladivostok	«УВЛИУВТ»	✔	—	✔
	8	Vasilisa Grushevskaya	12	Moscow	«Creep»	✔	✔	✔
	9	Diana Vakhiba	11	Hurghada, Egypt	«Into the Unknown»	✔	—	—
Episode 3 [c] (February 26)	1	Arseniy Slesarev	13	Moscow	«A Little Less Conversation»	—	—	✔
	2	Yuliya Gavrilova	13	Kinel-Cherkassy, Samara Oblast	«Ай вы, цыгане»	✔	✔	✔
	3	Sofiya Kameneva	8	Ryazan	«Канатоходка»	—	—	—
	4	Timofey Zavalinich	11	Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai	«Беспечный ангел»	✔	—	✔
	5	Polina Syutkina	8	Tyumen	«What About Us?»	✔	✔	✔
	6	Egor Sviridov	6	Ekaterinburg	«Ничего на свете лучше нету»	—	—	—
	7	Evgeniya Gaydova	15	Kondrovo, Kaluga Oblast	«A Song for You»	✔	✔	✔
	8	Kseniya Galetskaya	13	Minsk, Belarus	«Драмы больше нет»	—	—	—
	9	Polina Li	14	Saint-Petersburg	«Underneath Your Clothes»	✔	—	—
Episode 4 [d] (March 5)	1	Margarita Bavskaya	8	Novosibirsk	«Ангелы в танце»	✔	✔	✔
	2	Nikita Salov	14	Saint-Petersburg	«Розпрягайте, хлопці, коні»	—	—	—
	3	Pyotr Zatolochny	7	Saint-Petersburg	«Don't Worry, Be Happy»	✔	—	✔
	4	Elizaveta Trofimova	12	Moscow	"Overjoyed"	✔	✔	✔
	5	Diana Tikhomirova	7	Saint-Petersburg	«Эй, вы, там, наверху!»	—	—	—
	6	Denis Kucher	14	Evpatoria, Crimea	«Ты так красива»	✔	—	—
	7	Ekaterina Tabarina	12	Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	«Проснись и пой»	✔	—	—
	8	Daria Hanke	11	Lappeenranta, Finland	«Crazy»	—	—	—
	9	Anna Kachurovskaya	13	Moscow	«Basin Street Blues»	✔	✔	—
Episode 5 [e] (March 12)	1	Ay-Kherel Shuluu	12	Bulun-Bazhy, Tyva	«Billie Jean»	✔	✔	✔
	2	Marianna Gekman	9	Krasnoznamensk, Moscow Oblast	«Белая река»	—	—	—
	3	Anna Yurkevich	11	Minsk, Belarus	«Survivor»	✔	✔	✔
	4	Daniel Golyana	8	Saint-Petersburg	«Моя маленькая бейба»	—	—	✔
	5	Eva Temnyuk	13	Podolsk, Moscow Oblast	"Me voy"	✔	—	✔
	6	Vasilisa Suyunova	14	Troitsk, Moscow	«Toy»	✔	✔	✔
	7	Vyshan Kazachenko	12	Krasnoyarsk	«Georgia On My Mind»	—	—	—
	8	Amina Gasymova	10	Moscow	«Вальс-бостон»	—	—	—
	9	Kseniya Kovalenko	9	Novosibirsk	«Route 66»	—	✔	—
Episode 6 [f] (March 19)	1	Safina Shafigulina	7	Samara	«Опять метель»	—	✔	—
	2	Filipp Litvinov †	13	Moscow	«Johnny B. Goode»	—	—	—
	3	Eva Poklonskaya	14	Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai	"It's a Man's World"	✔	✔	✔
	4	Kirill Tomilin	9	Moscow	«Царевна»	✔	—	✔
	5	Yalky Saka	13	Antalya, Turkey	«I Have Nothing»	✔	✔	✔
	6	Stefaniya Rostovtseva	7	Moscow	«Pardonne-moi ce caprice d'enfant»	—	—	—
	7	Elena Chesnokova	14	Podolsk, Moscow Oblast	«Белым снегом»	—	—	—
	8	Vladislav Tyukin	12	Saint-Petersburg	«Feelings»	—	✔	—
	9	Kira Gogoladze	14	Vladimir	«Contigo en la Distancia»	✔	—	—
Episode 7 [g] (March 27)	1	Gabriel Aleksandrov	12	Moscow	«Historia de un Amor»	✔	✔	—
	2	Elizaveta Rogozina	10	Zvenigorod, Moscow Oblast	«В городе моём»	✔	✔	✔
	3	Elina Nigmatullina	8	Kazan	«Пой, гармошка, веселей»	—	—	—
	4	Sofiya Medvedeva	11	Moscow	«If I Ain't Got You»	✔	✔	✔
	5	Timur Ushakov	13	Kaluga	«I Wish / «Never Say Never»	—	—	—
	6	Valeriya Bochenkova	6	Saint-Petersburg	«Roar»	✔	—	—
	7	Alisa Semivolos	10	Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai	«Паруса»	Team full	—	—
	8	Stanislav Kashevarov	10	Engels, Saratov Oblast	«L'Italiano		✔	✔
	9	Varvara Butko	12	Moscow	«How Deep Is Your Love»		✔	Team full

The Battles

The Battles start on April 2, 2021. 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 8 (April 2)	Basta	1	Polina Danilchenko	«Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)»	Valeriya Bochenkova	Anna Yurkevich
		2	Mariya Politikova	«Метелица»	Polina Li	Ekaterina Tabarina
		3	Timofey Zavalinich	«Blinding Lights»	Ay-Kherel Shuluu	Denis Kucher
		4	Kira Gogoladze	«Ой, у вишневому саду»	Gabriel Alexandrov	Diana Vakhiba
		5	Vasilisa Suyunova	«Sinner Man»	Arina Milenko	Elizaveta Khenkina
Episode 9 (April 9)	LOBODA	1	Sofiya Fanta	«My Kind of Love»	Yalky Saka	Vasilisa Grushevskaya
		2	Miron Provorov	«Почему?»	Elizaveta Rogozina	Safina Shafigulina
		3	Yuliya Gavrilova	«Dusk till Dawn» / «Со вечора, с полуночи»	Anna Kachurovskaya	Milana Kompanichenko
		4	Vladislav Tyukin	«Озеро надежды»	Makar Smyslov	Polina Syutkina
		5	Kseniya Kovalenko	«Dancing Queen»	Varvara Butko	Andrey Averin
Episode 10 (April 16)	Egor Kreed	1	Anna Volkova	«Психушка»	Taisiya Khabibullina	Pyotr Zatolochny
		2	Sofiya Medvedeva	«Детство»	Margarita Bavskaya	Stanislav Kashevarov
		3	Elizaveta Trofimova	«Call Me Maybe»	Arseniy Slesaryov	Eva Poklonskaya
		4	Georgiy Dzeboev	«2 типа людей»	Daniel Golyana	Kirill Tomilin
		5	Alisa Trifonova	«No Time to Die» / «Golden Eye» / «Writing's On the Wall»	Evgeniya Gaydova	Eva Temnyk

The Sing-offs

The Sing-offs start on April 2. 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 8 (April 2)	Basta	1	Polina Danilchenko	«Bim bam toi»	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		2	Mariya Politikova	«Реченька»	Advanced to the Final
		3	Timofey Zavalinich	«Беспечный ангел»	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		4	Kira Gogoladze	«Contigo en la Distancia»	Advanced to the Final
		5	Vasilisa Suyunova	«Toy»	Advanced to the Live Extra round
Episode 9 (April 9)	LOBODA	1	Sofiya Fanta	«Run to You»	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		2	Miron Provorov	«Батарейка» / «F-R-I-E-N-D-S»	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		3	Yuliya Gavrilova	«Ай вы, цыгане»	Advanced to the Final
		4	Vladislav Tyukin	«Feelings»	Advanced to the Final
		5	Kseniya Kovalenko	«Route 66»	Advanced to the Live Extra round
Episode 10 (April 16)	Egor Kreed	1	Anna Volkova	«My Heart Will Go On»	Advanced to the Final
		2	Sofiya Medvedeva	«If I Ain't Got You»	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		3	Elizaveta Trofimova	«Overjoyed»	Advanced tp the Final
		4	Georgiy Dzeboev	«УВЛИУВТ»	Advanced to the Live Extra round
		5	Alisa Trifonova	«Shallow»	Advanced to the Live Extra round

Live shows

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

Week 1: Live Extra round (April 23)

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.

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Public's vote	Result
Episode 11 (April 23)[h]	Basta	1	Polina Danilchenko	"Песня мушкетёров"	23,7%	Eliminated
		2	Timofey Zavalinich	"Без тебя"	51,2%	Advanced
		3	Vasilisa Suyunova	"Танцы"	25,1%	Eliminated
	LOBODA	4	Kseniya Kovalenko	"Jogi"	3,5%	Eliminated
		5	Miron Provorov	"Наше лето"	35,2%	Eliminated
		6	Sofiya Fanta	"Earth Song"	61,3%	Advanced
	Egor Kreed	7	Georgiy Dzeboev	"Relax, Take It Easy" / "Не сходи с ума"	16,2%	Eliminated
		8	Sofiya Medvedeva	"Под гипнозом"	13,3%	Eliminated
		9	Alisa Trifonova	"A Million Dreams"	70,5%	Advanced

Week 2: Final (April 30)

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Public's vote	Result
Episode 12 (April 30)
	Final
	Basta	1	Timofey Zavalinich	"В самое сердце"	31,3%	Eliminated
		2	Kira Gogoladze	"Amazing"	33,9%	Eliminated
		3	Mariya Politikova	"Последняя поэма"	34,8%	Advanced
	LOBODA	4	Yuliya Gavrilova	"Whenever, Wherever"	22,1%	Eliminated
		5	Vladislav Tyukin	"Не отрекаются, любя"	55,7%	Advanced
		6	Sofiya Fanta	"В наших глазах"	22,2%	Eliminated
	Egor Kreed	7	Anna Volkova	"Ветер перемен"	10,7%	Eliminated
		8	Alisa Trifonova	"Bring Me to Life"	25,4%	Eliminated
		9	Elizaveta Trofimova	"Я скучаю по тебе"	63,9%	Advanced
	Super Final
	Basta	1	Mariya Politikova	"До свиданья, лето"	14%	Third place
	LOBODA	2	Vladislav Tyukin	"Who Wants to Live Forever?"	43,7%	Winner
Egor Kreed	3	Elizaveta Trofimova	"Спят усталые игрушки"	42,3%	Runner-up

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	#7	#11	Av.
Basta	56%	58%	59%	57%	60%	57%	57%	47%	56%	Best Coach
Egor Kreed	21%	26%	25%	29%	27%	27%	25%	40%	27%	Second place
LOBODA	23%	16%	16%	14%	13%	16%	18%	13%	17%	Third 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 11.