Evrovidenie

Evrovidenie. Nacionalny Otbor (in Russian: Евровидение. Национальный отбор, IPA: [jɪvrɐˈvʲidʲɪnʲɪjɪ. nət͡sɨɐˈnalʲnɨj ɐˈdbor], lit. 'Eurovision. National Selection'), sometimes as Nacionalny Otbor na Evrovidenie (in Russian: Национальный отбор на Евровидение, IPA: [nət͡sɨɐˈnalʲnɨj ɐˈdbor nə jɪvrɐˈvʲidʲɪnʲɪjɪ], lit. 'National Selection for Eurovision') or simply Evrovidenie (in Russian: Евровидение, IPA: [jɪvrɐˈvʲidʲɪnʲɪjɪ], lit. 'Eurovision') is a Russian televised musical competition organized by Russian public broadcasters Channel One (previously ORT) in odd years and Russia-1 of VGTRK in even years.[lower-alpha 2] The contest defines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Since 2005, the contest has been streamed live on the Internet through the official websites of the broadcasters.

For this year's edition, see Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.

Evrovidenie. Nacionalny Otbor
Also known asYevrovideniye
GenreMusic, entertainment
Created byChannel One (C1R)
Russia-1 (RTR)
Presented by(see below)
Judges(see below)
Country of originRussia
Original languageRussian
No. of series9 editions
No. of episodes20
Production
Production location(see below)
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeVariable
Production companiesProgramma "A" (1994, 1996)
RGTRK Ostankino & Lis's (1995)
VID (2005)
VGTRK (2008, 2010, 2012)
Krasny Kvadrat (2009)
Channel One (2021)
Release
Original networkRussia-1 (1994–)
Channel One (1995–)
Picture formatSECAM (1994–2009)
DVB-T 576i (2010-2012)
HDTV 1080i (2021–present)
Original release12 March 1994 (1994-03-12) –
8 March 2021 (2021-03-08)[lower-alpha 1]
Chronology
Followed byPesnya dlya Evropy (1996)
Internal selection (1997–2004, 2006–2007, 2011, 2013–2020)
Related showsEurovision Song Contest

Over the years, the show has gone under several other formats and names, including Evrovidenie – Pesnya '95 (1995), Pesnya dlya Evropy (1996), Evrovidenie – Vybirayet Rossiya (2005), Kto? (2014), but was known, for most of its history, as Evrovidenie. Nacionalny Otbor (1994, 2000, 2008–2010, 2012-2013, 2021).

The contest has produced one Eurovision winner, one runner-up and two top 10 placings for Russia at the contest. The results of other representatives of Russia, who were selected by the national selection, are rather modest. They range from 11th in both 2009 and 2010 to a record low 27th in 1996 audio-only qualifying round. The winner of Evrovidenie has been chosen by panels of jurors since its inception. In 2005, the juries were replaced by a public televoting,[lower-alpha 3] however, in 2008, they were restored and in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012, the winner was determined by a combination of jury voting and televoting. In 2021, the winner was chosen only by public televoting.

The contest is usually held in early March. Throughout the years, broadcasters has used different formats to determine which artist and song would represent the Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Origins

The first Evrovidenie, took place on 12 March 1994 at Shabolovka Studios in Moscow and was broadcast on RTR. It was organized by the productional team of "Programma A" and hosted by Vadim Dolgachev. 11 songs were supposed to participate, however 2 songs were disqualified. "Oi oi oi" performed by Alena Apina was disqualified after receiving radio airplay prior to the competition and "Kogda vernus’ v Rossiyu" performed by Vika Tsiganova was disqualified with reasons such as the singer being accused of antisemitism and the singer deciding to withdraw the song herself being cited. A jury which was composed of representatives of RTR, music industry professionals and representatives of public selected Youddiph as winner with the song "Vechni strannik". It finished ninth at Eurovision Song Contest 1994, which was held in Ireland's capital Dublin.[1]

After a debut at the contest, in 1995, the second Russian broadcaster Channel One of Ostankino also decided to hold a national selection. However, "The events connected with the corporatization of Channel One, which gave rise to the Russian Public Television (ORT), pushed the problems of the Eurovision Song Contest to a far corner. When it was required until March 15 to confirm its contribution – 40 thousand dollars, there was no money in Ostankino. The situation was saved by ORT. The new TV company agreed to cover the travel expenses of a Russian representative to the competition in Dublin."[2] Ultimately, the Russian entry was selected through a national final, organised by the Russian broadcaster Russian Public Television (ORT). A total of 9 songs participated in it. After the votes of the jury panel have been counted, there was a tie for the first place between "V sinem sne" performed by Oksana Pavlovskaya and "Epitaphia" performed by Viktoria Vita. Ultimately, the jury "came to the conclusion that none of the selection participants [with the exception of Philipp] deserves to represent Russia" and decided to send Philip Kirkorov to the contest instead of Viktoria or Oksana.[3][4][5] At Eurovision, the song did not achieve high success, taking only 17th place out of 23 with mere 17 points.[6]

In 1996, right to choose Eurovision entrant returned to RTR, which using quite successful experience of 1994 again runs open national final. It was broadcast on 2 March and was hosted by Youddiph (winner of Evrovidenie 1994). 14 songs took part in it. A jury which was composed of representatives of RTR, music industry professionals and representatives of public selected Andrey Kosinsky as winner with the song "Ya eto ya".[7][8] Andrey never made it to Eurovision due to the fact that Russia failed to qualify from audio-only qualification round, which was used by the EBU in order to shortlist the number of participating nations that would compete in the televised final of Eurovision 1996. With exception to the hosts Norway, audio entries from twenty-nine countries were played to national juries, of which only twenty-two proceeded to the televised final in Oslo.[9] As the result of non-qualification, RTR decided not to participate in Eurovision, leaving ORT (Channel One) as the only participating Russian broadcaster in the Eurovision Song Contest until 2008.

Series overview

Color key

  Male artist
  Female artist
  Band/duo
Year Premiere Finale Contestants Episodes Winner Runner-up Third place
1994 12 March 1994 11 9[lower-alpha 4] 1 Youddiph Nogu Svelo Andrey Misin
1995 30 April 1995 9 1 Oksana Pavlovskaya and Viktoria Vita[lower-alpha 5] No third placer[lower-alpha 6]
1996 2 March 1996 14 1 Andrey Kosinsky Elena Kuzmina Nogu Svelo
2000 19 February 2000[11]
N/A
 1 Contest cancelled[lower-alpha 7]
2005 4 February 2005 25 February 2005 30 29[lower-alpha 8] 12 Natalia Podolskaya Dima Bilan Anastasia Stotskaya
2007 N/A 1 or 3 N/A National final was among selection options[lower-alpha 9]
2008 9 March 2008 27 1 Dima Bilan Aleksandr Panayotov Zhenya Otradnaya
2009 7 March 2009 15 16[lower-alpha 10] 1 Anastasia Prikhodko Valeriya Kvatro
2010 7 March 2010 25 1 Peter Nalitch and Friends Oleg Bezinskih Buranovskiye Babushki
2012 7 March 2012[lower-alpha 11] 25 1 Buranovskiye Babushki Dima Bilan & Julia Volkova Timati & Aida Garifullina
2013
N/A
 National final was among participant selection options[lower-alpha 12]
2014 March 2014[20] 25[21] 1 Contest cancelled[lower-alpha 13]
2021 8 March 2021 3 1 Manizha #2Mashi Therr Maitz

At Eurovision
Table key
1 Winner
2 Second place
3 Third place
X Entry selected but did not compete
Year Entrant Song Translation Language Final Points Semi Points
1994 Youddiph "Vechni stranik" (Вечный странник) Eternal wanderer Russian 9 70 No semi-finals
1995 Philipp Kirkorov "Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana" (Колыбельная для вулкана) Lullaby for volcano Russian 17 17
1996 Andrey Kosinsky "Ya eto ya" (Я это я) I am me Russian Failed to qualify[lower-alpha 14] X 27 14
2005 Natalia Podolskaya "Nobody Hurt No One" - English 15 57 Top 12 previous year[lower-alpha 15]
2008 Dima Bilan "Believe" - English 1 272 3 135
2009 Anastasia Prikhodko "Mamo" (Мамо) Mum Russian, Ukrainian 11 91 Host country[lower-alpha 16]
2010 Peter Nalitch and Friends "Lost and Forgotten" - English 11 90 7 74
2012 Buranovskiye Babushki "Party for Everybody" - Udmurt, English 2 259 1 152
2021 Manizha "Russian Woman" - Russian, English 9 204 3 225

Venues and host(s)
Year City Channel Venue Semi-final host(s) Final host(s) Green room host(s)
1994
Moscow
 RTR Shabolovka Studios None Vadim Dolgachev None
1995 ORT Cosmos Hotel Unknown
1996 RTR Shabolovka Studios Youddiph
2000
N/A
 ORT Contest cancelled[lower-alpha 7]
2005
Moscow
 C1R Ostankino Studios Yana Churikova and Andrey Malakhov None
2007
N/A
 RTR National final was among selection options[lower-alpha 17]
2008
Moscow
 RTR Akademicheskiy Concert Hall None Oxana Fedorova and Oskar Kuchera None
2009 C1R Ostankino Studios Yana Churikova and Andrey Malakhov Dmitry Shepelev
2010 RTR Vladimir Nazarov's Theater Oxana Fedorova and Dmitry Guberniev None
2012 RTR Akademicheskiy Concert Hall Olga Shelest and Mikhail Zelensky
2013
N/A
 C1R National final was among participant selection options[lower-alpha 12]
2014 Moscow[21] RTR Contest cancelled[lower-alpha 13]
2021
Moscow
 C1R Mosfilm Studios None Yana Churikova

Executive supervisors
Year Channel Name Ref.
1994
RTR
Sergey Antipov
1995
ORT
Irina Zinger
[26]
1996
RTR
Sergey Antipov
2005
C1R
Lina Arifullina
[27]
2008
RTR
Gennady Gokhshtein
2009
C1R
Yuri Aksyuta
2010
RTR
Gennady Gokhshtein
2012
2021
C1R
Yuri Aksyuta

Voting
Year Voting format
1994 Each juror gives 1 point to his/her one, two or three favorite entry/entries.
1995 Each juror gives 1 point to his/her favorite entry.
1996 Each juror gives 1 point to his/her one, two or three favorite entry/entries.
2005 Televoting
2008 Both juries and televoting awarded 27 points to their favorite song, 26 points to second favorite etc.
2009 First Round: Televoting
Second Round: Each juror gives 1 point to his/her favorite entry.
2010 Combination of jury and televoting points and calculation of the average score
2012
2021 Televoting

Judges
Year Judges
1994 Bari Alibasov, Maya Gordeeva, Oleg Gusev, Klara Novikova, Yuri Saulsky, Lora Kvint, Mikhail Kuvshinov, Elena Velikanova, Sergey Podgorbunsky, Natalia Shuykina, Valery Kiselyov, Tatyana Algebraistova, Andrey Kalachikhin, Olga Suvorova, Irina Berezina, Andrey Panov, Aleksandr Danilkin
1995 Unknown[lower-alpha 18]
1996 Galina Golubova, Roman Prygunov, Irina Otieva, Yuri Yagudin, Tatyana Cherednychenko, Pavel Ovsyannikov, Alla Pugacheva, Alexey Rybnikov, Galina Masharova, Mikhail Sevastopolsky, Inga Voronovskaya, Igor Stepanov, Nadezhda Kobryzhenkova, Petr Gorovoy, Natalia Samoylova, Gennady Videnko
2005[lower-alpha 3] Konstantin Ernst, Yuriy Aksyuta, Igor Matvienko, Maxim Fadeev, Viktor Drobysh, Alexey Charykov, Ilya Bachurin, Artur Gasparyan, Vladimir Polupanov, Maxim Kononenko, Larisa Havkina, Vladimir Matetsky, Maksim Dunayevsky, Larisa Dolina, Alexander Malinin, Larisa Sinelshikova
2008 Igor Krutoy, Sergey Arhipov, Maxim Fadeev, Gennady Gokhshtein, Vladimir Matetsky
2009 Alexander Barannikov, Dzhohan Pollyeva, Yuriy Aksyuta, Kim Breitburg, Alexander Dulov, Igor Krutoy, Alexander Lunyov, Vladimir Matetsky, Ruben Oganesov, Larisa Sinelschikova, Maxim Fadeev
2010 Andrey Demidov, Igor Krutoy, Gennady Gokhshtein, Maxim Fadeev, Sergey Arhipov
2012 Sergey Arhipov, Igor Krutoy, Alexander Igudin, Philipp Kirkorov, Arman Davletyarov, Roman Emelyanov, Gennady Gokhshtein

Viewing figures
Year Episode Rating Share Coverage Ranking Channel Ref.
2005[lower-alpha 19] Semi-final 1 6.6% 16.0% N/A 43
C1R
 [29]
Semi-final 2 6.4% 14.9% N/A 48 [30]
Semi-final 3 5.5% 13.1% N/A 66 [31]
Final 9.5% 20.6% N/A 19 [32]
2008 Final 4.1% 12.7% N/A 60
RTR
 [33]
2010 Final 5.1% 15.6% N/A 44 [34]
2012[lower-alpha 19] Final 3.1% 10.1% N/A 78 [35]
2021 Final 3.9% 12.5% 10.5% 14
C1R
 [36]

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. Aired intermittently and under various different names
  2. Except in 2000 (even year), when ORT (Channel One) was supposed to organize a national selection and 2007 (odd year), when RTR was supposed to organize a national selection.
  3. In 2005, a jury panel provided commentary and feedback to the artists during the show, but did not vote.
  4. Two songs were disqualified prior to the competition: "Oi oi oi" performed by Alena Apina was disqualified after receiving radio airplay prior to the competition and "Kogda vernus’ v Rossiyu" performed by Vika Tsiganova was disqualified with reasons such as the singer being accused of antisemitism and the singer deciding to withdraw the song herself being cited.
  5. After the votes of the jury panel have been counted, there was a tie for the first place between "V sinem sne" performed by Oksana Pavlovskaya and "Epitaphia" performed by Viktoria Vita. The tie was to be resolved, however, the jury "came to the conclusion that none of the selection participants [with the exception of Philipp] deserves to represent Russia" and decided to send Philip Kirkorov to the contest instead of Viktoria or Oksana.[10]
  6. Since there was a tie between the participants of the selection from 3rd to 9th place, no one took third place
  7. Plans for the national final were abandoned by the broadcaster due to financial problems.[12][13]
  8. Sergey Mazaev was disqualified from the competition after being late for the Siberia run of the live show
  9. Despite early indications that the Russian participation for 2007 would be organized by Rossiya Channel (RTR), Channel One Russia (C1R) remained in charge of selecting the Russian entry. "However, preliminary consultations on the national selection still managed to be held by the Rossiya Channel, and according to their results it became clear that the only candidate of the channel is the singer Valeriya, who was planned to be approved without selection, or held according to the "open-internal" selection. [National song selection for an internally selected artist]"[14] However, contradicting himself, ESCKaz said that "According to ESCKaz, by the end of the year, RTR will announce the names of three applicants selected from among the well-known Russian performers, further selection will be carried out from them. [...] One of the contenders to represent Russia at Eurovision will be the popular singer and finalist of Russian version of Idols Alexander Panayotov."[15]
  10. Initially, 15 songs were supposed to participate in the selection, however, on 5 March 2009, C1R announced that Anastasia Prikhodko would also participate in the national final with the song "Mamo" as a protest against her elimination from the 2009 Ukrainian Eurovision national final due to rule violations[16]
  11. Initially, the selection was supposed to take place on February 26. However, for unknown reasons, the selection date was changed to March 7.[17]
  12. After the announcement of the submission period,[18] Channel One decided to decide on the selection format. Among the possible options were:[19]
    • National final with artists and songs that were sent during the submission period.
    • Internal selection with artists and songs that were sent during the submission period.
    • Selection of the winner of Golos
    Ultimately, Channel One settled on the third option.
  13. Plans for the national final were abandoned by the broadcaster due to the poor quality of submitted songs.[22][23]
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. If a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year.
  17. Despite early indications that the Russian participation for 2007 would be organized by Rossiya Channel (RTR), Channel One Russia (C1R) remained in charge of selecting the Russian entry. "However, preliminary consultations on the national selection still managed to be held by the Rossiya Channel, and according to their results it became clear that the only candidate of the channel is the singer Valeriya, who was planned to be approved without selection, or held according to the "open-internal" selection. [National song selection for an internally selected artist]"[24] However, contradicting himself, ESCKaz said that "According to ESCKaz, by the end of the year, RTR will announce the names of three applicants selected from among the well-known Russian performers, further selection will be carried out from them. [...] One of the contenders to represent Russia at Eurovision will be the popular singer and finalist of Russian version of Idols Alexander Panayotov."[25]
  18. It is not known exactly who was part of the jury, however, it is known that the jury included members of management of ORT channel[28]
  19. Statistics for Moscow only

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  18. https://eurovision.tv/story/russia-is-searching-for-a-hit
  19. https://euroinvision.com/blog/alina_grosu_podala_zajavku_na_evrovidenie_2013_ot_rossii/2013-01-12-193
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  21. "Eurovision Russia: Rossija 1 announce national final on December 31 - ESCToday.com". 1 September 2013.
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  27. https://esckaz.com/2005/rus1.htm
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