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Ask any music lover in what year Russia won Eurovision, and he will tell you without hesitation that the only, and therefore especially memorable, year when, from the second take, Dima Bilan, with the song "Believe", defended the honor of the country at the popular all-European song contest and won 1st place. Thanks to this victory, for the first time in the history of Eurovision, Russia hosted the participants and guests of the next year's contest in Moscow. Unfortunately, neither before nor after Dima Bilan, none of the Russian singers has achieved such success. Let's remember how it was.

Russia's participation in Eurovision

For a long time, Russia as part of the USSR was behind the Iron Curtain separating Soviet Union from the rest of the world. Therefore, such cultural events as the Eurovision Song Contest did not influence or affect Russians in any way from the time the song contest was founded in 1956 until 1994, when for the first time Russian Maria Katz performed at the contest and took a high enough place for a debutant country - 9- oh.

Since then, relations between Russia and Eurovision have evolved sometimes dramatically, and sometimes very successfully. The most successful year was 2008, when Russia won Eurovision for the first and only time in the history of its participation in this contest - then Dima Bilan brought victory.

There were then and before that quite successful performances:

  • Competitors from Russia took the honorable 2nd place 4 times. Alsu was the first to rise so high, then Dima Bilan consolidated this result, and there the unforgettable Buranovsky Babushki pulled up, Polina Gagarina closed this procession.
  • 3rd place was awarded to the groups Tatu and Serebro, and later Sergey Lazarev was among the "bronze winners".

How Russia was not allowed to Eurovision because of Alla and Philip

But I must say that not everything went so smoothly at this hyper-popular competition. There were two failed performances - both failures are associated with the performance of the "royal" couple of the Russian stage Philip Kirkorov and Alla Pugacheva. Philip took 17th place, while Alla slightly improved this result and took only 15th place. These events not only showed the inconsistency of the Russian stage and its lack of competitiveness, but rendered a disservice to the new applicants. Russia was not allowed to participate in the competition in 1998, as there was a shortage of passing points due to the low rating of previous performers. Russia (represented by the management of the Ostankino TV and Radio Company) was offended and did not broadcast the competition, for which it lost the right to participate in the next year.

The future of Russia in the next competition

Let's hope that all these failures are behind us forever, and only successful performances of our singers are ahead of us, and very soon Russia will again take first place, and to the question "How many times has Russia won Eurovision?" we will proudly answer 5 or even 10 times.

Dreaming, of course, is not harmful. And it's not such an impossible dream. England, Luxembourg and France, for example, have won this competition 5 times. Ireland - 7 times, Sweden - 6 times. As you can see, there is nothing impossible in this.

In 2017, Eurovision hosts Kyiv, after last year's victory of Jamala. I would very much like this to have no effect on Russia's participation in the competition. After all, there should be "flies separately, and cutlets separately." The guns should be silenced when the music is playing, and we hope they will be.

Russia has been participating in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1994. In 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2017 Russian singers did not participate in the final of the competition.

In 1996, due to the excess of the number of countries, the organizers had to conduct an additional selection, and the Russian Andrei Kosinsky did not pass it. Two years later, Russia was not among the participants in the competition according to the rating determined by the results of previous years. In 1999, Russia found itself out of Eurovision, as a year earlier it decided not to broadcast the contest live due to the absence of a Russian representative, and according to Eurovision rules, such a broadcast is mandatory.

In 2017, at Eurovision in Kyiv (Ukraine), Yulia Samoilova was supposed to represent Russia with the song Flame Is Burning. However, the Security Service of Ukraine banned her from entering the country for three years because of her speech in Crimea.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) suggested that Russia either broadcast the competition via satellite or change the contestant. On the Russian First Channel, they said that they consider these options unacceptable and in the current situation the channel does not consider it possible to broadcast the competition. EBU said that Russia, as it refused the proposed alternatives.

The first Russian participant in the international television contest "Eurovision", which was held in Dublin (Ireland), was in 1994 Maria Katz under the pseudonym "Judith". With the song "Eternal Wanderer" she took ninth place out of 25.

Maria Katz was born on January 23, 1973 in Moscow. Russian singer, sang in the musical groups "Quarter", "League of Blues", "Maryland", was a backing vocalist for many famous Russian performers. Laureate of the title "Voice of Russia". Soloist of the group Balls of fire. Founder of the recording company "Hit Start". The characters of Russian versions of Hollywood films (the musical "Chicago") and cartoons ("Anastasia", "Rapunzel") sing in the voice of Mary, she voices commercials.

Philip Kirkorov was born on April 30, 1967 in Varna. Multiple winner of the "Ovation", "Golden Gramophone", "MUZ-TV", "Stopudovy Hit" awards, World Music Awards, as the most popular performer in Russia, laureate of the annual festival "Song of the Year". He was awarded the Kinotavr film festival award in the Best Actor nomination.

Currently, Philip Kirkorov produces artists and groups and performs with his own concert programs.
In 2009 Philip Kirkorov was the host of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Moscow.

In 1997, Alla Pugacheva took part in the Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on May 3 in Dublin (Ireland). She placed 15th out of 25.

Alla Pugacheva was born on April 15, 1949 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian pop singer, People's Artist of the USSR (1991), laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995). Over the years of her creative activity, Alla Pugacheva has created many concert programs. Along with an active concert activity, she took part in dozens of prestigious festivals and song contests, both as a participant and as a jury member. Pugacheva is the owner of a unique collection of titles, prizes and awards. The Cambridge International Biographical Center awarded her the 2000 Outstanding Musicians of the 20th Century Personalized Medal.

In 2000, Alsu represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition was held in Stockholm (Sweden). Alsu sang a song on English language Solo and became the first Russian singer to take second place in the competition.

Alsu (Alsu Abramova, maiden name - Safina) was born on June 27, 1983. Alsou's musical career began in 1998, when the singer was 15 years old. The song "Winter Dream" brought her great popularity. The singer's discography includes several albums, including "Alsu" (1999), Alsou (in English, 2001), "I Dreamed of Autumn" (2002), "19" (2003), "Most Important" (2008), " Native speech"(), "Letters that came from the war" (), etc.

In 2001, Mumiy Troll represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition was held on May 12, 2001 in Copenhagen (Denmark). With the song Lady alpine blue, the group took 12th place. Mumiy Troll is a Russian rock band from Vladivostok. Formed in 1983. Songwriter, vocalist and leader of the group - Ilya Lagutenko. The style of the Lagutenko group. The group is the owner of the Ovation, Golden Gramophone, FUZZ, MTV Russia Music Awards, MUZ-TV awards, etc. Its discography includes more than 10 studio albums, including Polar Bear (2010), Rare Lands ( 2010), Vladivostok (2012), Hey Tovarish! (2012), "Mumikam from Trolls. Sleep, rock and roll" (2012), Malibu Alibi (2016), "EAST X NORTHWEST" () and others.

In 2002, Russia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest by the Prime Minister Quartet. The contest was held on May 25, 2002 in Tallinn (Estonia). The group sang an English version of Kim Breitburg's song with lyrics by Karen Kavaleryan Northern Girl ("Girl from the North") and took 10th place among 24 participants in the competition.

The Prime Minister group was formed in early 1998 by producer Evgeny Fridlyand and sound producer Kim Breitburg. Since 2005, the team has been called "PM Group". The group consists of Jean Milimerov, Marat Chanyshev and Pete Samuel Jason.

In 2003, the Russian group t.A.T.u. became the third at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Do not believe, do not be afraid, do not ask". The contest was held on May 24, 2003 in Riga (Latvia).

The Tatu project was created in 1999 by scriptwriter and director Ivan Shapovalov, two 15-year-old schoolgirls Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova were selected as participants. The song "I'm crazy" debuted on the radio in 2000 and for several months took first place in the charts of radio stations. On May 15, 2002, the Russian pop duo "Tatu" received the IFPI Platinum Europe Award for one million copies of the album "200 in the opposite direction" sold in Europe.

In November 2002, the group, which from that time became known as t.A.T.u., took part in the European Music Awards, presenting the Best Dance Video nomination and performed the hit All the Things She Said live. After this event, the group received worldwide recognition. In 2003, after participating in the Eurovision Song Contest, Volkova and Katina broke off the contract with Ivan Shapovalov and began producing themselves, releasing two albums - Disabled People (2005) and Waste Management (2007). In 2009, the girls announced that they were planning to start solo careers. In April 2013, the group's first concert after the breakup took place. In February 2014, the girls at the pre-party of the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

In 2004, Yulia Savicheva took 11th place at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Believe Me. The competition was held on May 15, 2004 in Istanbul (Turkey).

Yulia Savicheva was born on February 14, 1987. In 2003 she took part in the project "Star Factory-2". Her songs regularly became hits: "Ships", "High", "Sorry for Love". The year 2004 was marked by Yulia's participation in several international competitions at once, where she represented Russia. In addition to Eurovision in 2004, she performed at the World Best competition and took 8th place. The singer's discography includes the albums Believe Me (2004), "High" (2005), "If Love Lives in the Heart" (2005), "Magnet" (2006), "Origami" () and others.

In 2005, Russia at Eurovision was represented by Natalia Podolskaya with Viktor Drobysh's song Nobody hurt no one. The final of the competition was held on May 21, 2005 in Kyiv (Ukraine). At the competition, Natalia took 15th place.

Natalya Podolskaya was born on May 20, 1982. In 2004, she became one of the brightest participants in the Star Factory-5 project, the music producer of which was Alla Pugacheva. At the end of the project, Natalia became one of the winners of "Star Factory-5" and the only singer who released her solo album "Late" (2004) as part of the project.

In 2006, Russia was represented at the competition by Dima Bilan, who took second place with the song Never Let You Go. The final of the competition took place on May 20, 2006 in Athens (Greece).

The Silver group, formed in 2006, is a project of Channel One producer Maxim Fadeev. In 2009, the band's debut album "OpiumRoz" was released. Currently, the members of the group are Olga Seryabkina, Ekaterina Kishchuk and Tatyana Morgunova. Among the group's awards are the Golden Gramophone and Breakthrough of the Year awards.

In 2008, Dima Bilan took part in the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time. The competition was held on May 24, 2008 in Belgrade (Serbia). With the song Believe, with which Bilan and the Hungarian violinist Edwin Marton, he took first place.

In 2009, Anastasia Prikhodko represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Mamo", she took 11th place. The final of the competition was held on May 16, 2009 at the Olimpiysky sports complex in Moscow.

Anastasia Prikhodko is a Ukrainian and Russian pop folk singer. She was born on April 21, 1987 in Kyiv. She gained fame after winning the show of the First Channel "Star Factory-7".

In 2010, at Eurovision, Russia was represented by the Musical Group of Peter Nalich with the song Lost and Forgotten. The final of the song contest "Eurovision" was held on the night of May 30 in Oslo (Norway). Petr Nalich and his group with 90 points based on the results of the audience voting and the decision of the professional jury. The "Peter Nalich Band", made famous in 2007 by the Guitar video on YouTube, consists of Petr Nalich himself, who is a songwriter, vocalist, pianist, accordionist and guitarist; Sergei Sokolov playing acoustic guitar and domra; Konstantin Shvetsov, who plays the electric guitar, as well as saxophonist, vocalist Yury Kostenko; keyboardist Oscar Chuntonov; bass guitarist Dmitry Simonov and drummer Igor Javad-Zade. The group has several albums on its account - "The Joy of Simple Melodies", "Merry Baburi", "Goldfish", "Songs of Love and Motherland", etc.

In 2011, Alexei Vorobyov represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song Get You. The final of the competition was held on May 14 in Düsseldorf (Germany).

Alexey Vorobyov was born in 1988 in Tula. In 2005, he In 2007, he received the "Opening MTV-2007" award at the MTV Russia Music Awards. The song for the Russian Eurovision participant was written by RedOne, the author of Lady Gaga's hits and the official melody of the 2006 World Cup, collaborating with Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez and other world stars. IN last years as an actor Vorobyov starred in the films and TV series "Treasures of O.K." (2013), "Three Musketeers" (2013), Ekaterina (2014), "Guest performers" (2015), "Get up and fight" (), etc.

In 2012, the Buranovskiye Babushki band represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Party for Everybody, which took second place. The final of the competition was held on May 26 in Baku (Azerbaijan). The ensemble "Buranovskiye Babushki" was created in the village of the same name Buranovo, Udmurtia, more than 40 years ago. Average age members of the team - 70 years old, the basis of the repertoire -. The ensemble also became famous for performing modern hits in Udmurt, Russian and English. Since the end of 2014, "Buranovskiye Babushki" have been performing under the name "Brangurt pesyanayes", which means "Grandmothers from the village of Buranovo" in Udmurt.

In 2013, at the Eurovision Song Contest, the final of which was held on May 18 in the Swedish city of Malmö, Russia was represented by singer Dina Garipova. The lyrical composition What if, performed by Garipova, took fifth place.

Dina Garipova was born on March 25, 1991 in Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan). From the age of six she studied vocals at the Zelenodolsk Song Theater "Golden Microphone". Graduated from Kazan Federal University with a degree in journalism. In December 2012, she won the TV project of the First Channel "Voice". After that, she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan. In February 2013, Garipova with the Russian branch of the record company Universal Music Group.

The organizers of Eurovision had a good goal: to merge the countries of Europe that were scattered after the Second World War in a single musical impulse. In 1956, the first competition was held, and the place was chosen in the best possible way: the action took place in Lugano, the southern city of Switzerland, distinguished by its diplomacy. The victory was also received by the representative of this country - Liz Assia with the song Refrain. The show has never been canceled since this year.

Eurovision rules

The participants are required to have a live sound (there can only be accompaniment in the recording), an original three-minute composition and no more than 6 people simultaneously on stage. You can sing in any language. Participants must be over 16 years old: since 2003, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest has been founded for underage musicians (participants children's competition 2006, the Tolmacheva sisters represented Russia at the adult competition in 2014).

Popular

The show is broadcast live, and after that, SMS voting begins, allowing you to choose the best performers. Depending on the number of voters, participants receive from 12 to 1 point from each of the countries (or do not receive a single point if they are not voted for). And six years ago, music experts joined the audience: five professionals from each country also vote for their favorite songs.

Sometimes countries receive the same number of points - in this case, the number of 10 and 12 points is taken into account. By the way, in 1969, when this rule had not yet been taken into account, four countries were declared winners at once: France, Spain, the Netherlands and Great Britain. The rest of the participants did not like it much, so now the jury is choosing the favorite more carefully.

Eurovision countries

Only countries that are members of the European Broadcasting Union (hence the name of the competition) can participate in Eurovision, that is, it is not the geography that matters, but the channel that will broadcast the show live. For many who wish, this regulation becomes a serious obstacle: Kazakhstan, which applied for membership in the EBU, was not approved by the organizers of the competition.

The Eurovision organizers do not advocate for new participants at all, but this does not interrupt the appetite of many countries dreaming of participating in the contest. Compared to 1956, the number of performers has increased 9 times: instead of 7 states, 39 are now competing. By the way, Australia will enter the stage this year. The green continent will be presented for the first time in history by singer Guy Sebastian. The only "but": in the event of Australia's victory, they have not yet been allowed to host Eurovision at home.

But there are those who are never denied participation: these are the countries of the so-called "Big Five", which includes the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. These states never tremble for qualifying performances and always automatically find themselves in the final.

Eurovision rejections

"Eurovision" is an expensive pleasure, so the most common reason for countries' refusals is economic. In second place is politics, which intervenes in the competition every now and then. For example, Armenia refused to send its musicians to Baku in 2012 due to strained relations with Azerbaijan, and Morocco was not shown at the competition for a long time due to conflicts with Israel.

There are those who do not want to go to the show, accusing the judges of bias. The Czech Republic turned out to be the most dissatisfied country: since 2009, the state stubbornly avoided Eurovision (in three years of participation, the Czechs scored only 10 points in total), and only this year decided to try their hand again.

Turkey said no this year, with a backlog of complaints. Muslims are unhappy with the victory of the bearded Conchita Wurst last year and Finnish Krista Siegfrids' lesbian kiss with her backing vocalist, which was captured by cameras during the semi-finals in 2013.

Famous participants of Eurovision

Many performers believe that Eurovision is a stepping stone to world popularity. In fact, the competition, even if it gives a few seconds of fame, gives few people a chance to become truly famous. There are also pleasant exceptions. For example, in 1974, the Swedish group ABBA, at that moment unfamiliar even within their native country, won first place with the song Waterloo. This victory instantly brought the team success all over the world: 8 singles of the group, one after another, firmly established themselves at the top of the British charts, and in the USA, three albums of the quartet became gold and one went platinum. By the way, the Waterloo hit in 2005, thanks to the vote of viewers from 31 countries, was recognized as the best Eurovision song in history.

Celine Dion was already a star in Canada and France at the time of the competition. The victory in 1988 with the song Ne partez pas sans moi (the singer represented Switzerland) expanded her geography: Dion's records began to be sold in Asia, Australia and most European countries, and made her think about recording singles in English. Approximately the same story happened with the Spaniard Julio Iglesias, who in 1994 reached fourth place with the song Gwendolyne, and then learned to sing in Portuguese, French and Italian and made himself known in Europe.

The Brainstorm group, which took third place in 2000 (by the way, these were the first performers who performed in the competition from Latvia), Eurovision, if not opened the whole planet, but allowed them to successfully tour Scandinavia and consolidate their success in Eastern Europe, the Baltic states and Russia.

It also happened vice versa: when performers with a name took part in a music competition, but did not achieve leadership in the competition. So, Tatu, despite encouraging forecasts, took only third place, the British Blue became 11th, and Patricia Kaas - eighth.

Eurovision scandals

They like to criticize Eurovision: the first places are probably bought, the lyrics are unoriginal, and the countries vote not for the composition, but for their neighbors. Even texts, behavior and appearance some of the contestants.

In 1973, fans of the Israeli singer Ilanit were seriously worried about the life of the singer. On the eve of the contest, the singer received threats from Islamic radicals who made no secret of the impending attack. Nevertheless, the performer took the stage, having previously put on a bulletproof vest. Fortunately, nothing dangerous for her life did not happen.

In 2007, a scandal arose around the Ukrainian participant - the singer Verka Serdyuchka (aka Andrey Danilko), in whose song the words "Russia, goodbye" were heard. The culprit of the story herself explained that the text contains the phrase Lasha Tumbai, which means “whipped cream” in Mongolian. Be that as it may, Verka's performance turned out to be prophetic: relations with Russia deteriorated sharply, and now the singer is a rare bird in our area.

And the Spaniard Daniel Dihes was “lucky” to be the victim of a bully in a red cap Jimmy Jump, who usually bursts into football matches to make the audience laugh and get into the frame. In 2010, Jimmy chose Eurovision as the venue and snuck onto the stage during Daniel's performance. Jimmy flaunted in front of the cameras for a full 15 seconds, until the shocked guards began to act. Dihes (who hadn't lost his temper during Jump's antics) was allowed to sing one more time.

Non-standard participants of the show, representatives of sexual minorities or alternative musical genres, also attract attention to themselves. Several times such musicians managed to win, which angered many spectators, but did not cancel their victory. In 1998, it was transgender Dana International from Israel; in 2006, hard rockers Lordi caused a wave of irritation, and last year Thomas Neuwirth became a bone of contention, who appeared on stage in the form of a woman with a beard Conchita Wurst.

Eurovision records

The most successful performers, without a doubt, live in Ireland. This country took the first place 7 times, including three times in a row (from 1992 to 1994). And Norway has the saddest results - its participants 10 times got to the bottom of the voting line.

True, the most a large number of It was not the Irishman who earned points for the victory, but the Norwegian of Belarusian origin Alexander Rybak, who received 387 points. The youngest participant in the competition was Sandra Kim from Belgium. Today, the organizers carefully check the biographies of the participants, and in 1986, a 13-year-old girl, thanks to makeup and a larger outfit (long trousers and a jacket with voluminous shoulders), managed to outwit the jury and brought her country victory.

The competition does not prohibit contestants from participating in Eurovision several times. This right is used with might and main by the German composer Ralph Siegel, who wrote compositions for the competition 17 times. In 1979, he founded the Dschinghis Khan group especially for Eurovision, which took fourth place with a song about Genghis Khan. This allowed the team to successfully tour Europe for six years.

The right to re-participate also allowed Dima Bilan to become a favorite

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From Philip Kirkorov to Judith through Alexei Vorobyov and Yulia Savicheva.

Dima Bilan with his first place in 2008 (well, second in 2006) and our grandchildren will remember. Fans of Eurovision will not forget Alsou, Buranovskiye Babushki and Polina Gagarina (second places in 2000, 2012 and 2015). Forever in our hearts are the groups "t.A.T.u" and "Serebro" (third positions in 2003 and 2007).

We decided to once again show you our worst numbers at this funny contest - not for the sake of gloating, but ... Well, it's so simple, just for fun.

Important: when we say “worst”, we mean the lowest places taken, which are sometimes worth the most high-profile victories. And sometimes they don't. See and listen for yourself.

1. Philip Kirkorov: 17th place in 1995, Dublin (Ireland).
"Lullaby for the Volcano".


Philip was only the second Russian participant in this celebration of life. He was young and full of desire to tear the audience to hell. To put it mildly, it did not work out - he still did not know the laws and tricks of the competition. Neither the sparkling eyes, nor the pitch-black mane of hair, nor even the unbuttoned shirt, exposing a moderately overgrown chest, helped. Everything that worked in Russia was not useful on the Eurovision stage. Yes, and he sang in Russian, mysterious for the European public.

In subsequent years, Philip made up for defeat: his wards more than once came close to victory at Eurovision.

By the way, even the fact that his then fiasco is still the most deafening fiasco of Russia at the competition, once again reminds us that a unique person is unique in everything. The king is always the king!

2. Alexey Vorobyov: 16th place in 2011, Dusseldorf (Germany).
get you


It's a pity that formally Kirkorov performed worst of all and Lesha Vorobyov can only be given the second place in our "top ten". Because the ward of Baroness Katherine von Gechmen-Waldeck, this woman with an atomic engine, was remembered not only for a surprisingly dull performance, rattling out her “hit” as if on one note. Alexey is especially good, for the sake of the show he was briefly renamed Alex Sparrow (“sparrow” in English - a sparrow), was after the first semi-final, when yelled at the camera with all the dope: "It's Russia,<представьте, что тут нецензурное слово>, look into your eyes,<представьте, что тут нецензурное слово>". What greatly amused the audience from the Slavic states.

Gechmen-Waldek also persuaded the Swedish producer Red One, from whom she bought the song, to pretend to be producer Vorobyov. Much has been written about the upcoming world fame of the artist, but for now, Alexey is content with roles in Russian TV shows and participation in the TNT channel show "The Bachelor".

3. Alla Pugacheva: 15th place in 1997, Dublin (Ireland)
"Diva"


She was the third participant from Russia (after Judith and Kirkorov) and also remained misunderstood by Europe. It is noteworthy that Slovenia unexpectedly awarded 12 points to AB. Austria, the Netherlands, Norway and Estonia fell back a little more. The rest didn't score. It was necessary to have Pugachev's courage in order, being a superstar in the Motherland, to agree to be crucified on this notorious Calvary. But since then, the title "Prima Donna" has been firmly entrenched in Pugacheva herself.

4. Natalia Podolskaya: 15th place in 2005, Kyiv (Ukraine)
Nobody Hurt No One


By this moment, Alsou and “t.A.T.u” had already happened, and of course, we all dreamed of victory. Alas.

5. "Mumiy Troll": 12th place in 2001, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Lady Alpine Blue


An interesting attempt to conquer Europe with an unobtrusive rock-pop. Past! But 2 points from interested Malta and a sudden 5 from Iceland.

6. Julia Savicheva: 11th place in 2004, Istanbul (Turkey)
believe me


It seemed that just now ... An incident happened at the performance: the naked dancers covered with paint turned out to be too slippery, Yulia could not, climbing on them, take the position she had learned at rehearsals. Perhaps Yulia was let down by her tender age: she was only 17.

7. Anastasia Prikhodko: 11th place in 2009, Moscow
"Mamo"


After Bilan's triumph, we didn't need a second victory in a row. Apparently, for this reason, a Ukrainian Prikhodko was sent to the competition with a more than ambiguous song about her mother and an even stranger production. Perhaps it was then that the singer began to feel dizzy from success, which led to the fact that now her main occupation is to publicly swear at Russia.

8. Musical group of Peter Nalich: 11th place in 2010, Oslo (Norway)
Lost And Forgotten


If Peter had sung his great “Guitar” at the competition, he could have competed for victory. Alas, you can only sing at Eurovision new song, but it turned out somehow mournfully. But he sang his own, and not bought at the Swedish hit factory, as the Russian participants do now.

9. "Prime Minister": 10th place in 2002, Tallinn (Estonia)
Northern Girl


There was a time when our producers still believed that they were able to create a Eurohit. The authors of "A Girl from the North" are our songwriters Kim Breitburg and Karen Kavaleryan. It turned out cheerfully and energetically, but the points were given mainly by the neighbors. Well, Malta again got emotional, giving 8 points. Soon the group had a fight with the producer, was forced to change the name and eventually disappeared into the quagmire of show business.

10. Judith: 9th place in 1994, Dublin (Ireland).
"The Eternal Wanderer"


That's whose name is forever inscribed in the tablets of history! 21-year-old Maria Katz became the first Russian woman to go to Eurovision. Yes, the ninth place, but the points were given by the UK (5), Germany (6), Ireland and Iceland (4 each), the Netherlands (5). The text of the song was written by Masha herself, and the music by Lev Zemlinsky. It wasn't a victory, but it was a triumph!

Maria still sings, although she has not become a popularly adored singer. Most often she performs in clubs for a small but adoring audience. Known as a high-class vocal teacher, she worked as a backing vocalist with many famous performers.

This year Russia for the entire history of participation in the music competition. Russia has been sending the most talented singers to the show since 1994, and the competition itself appeared in 1956. Let's remember all the participants in the popular competition from Russia, you might have forgotten many of them.

Masha Katz, 1994

In Ireland, Masha performed her own ballad "The Eternal Wanderer" in English and Russian. She took 9th place. In 1999, her song was recognized as one of the ten best in the history of the competition.

Philip Kirkorov, 1997

The following year, Philip Bedrosovich went to the competition. He sang "Lullaby for the Volcano" and placed 17th.

Alla Pugacheva, 1997

In 1996, Russia did not send its participants to the competition. But already in 1997 Alla Pugacheva went to represent our country. The prima donna took 15th place.

Alsou, 2000

After the performance of Alla Borisovna, Russia did not appear at the competition for several more years. In 2000, Alsou went to represent the country. In Stockholm, the young singer took second place.

"Mumiy Troll", 2001

In Copenhagen, our country was represented by the Mumiy Troll group with the song "Lady Alpine Blue". Unfortunately, it was not possible to enter the top ten, Russia took 12th place.

"Prime Minister", 2002

The group "Prime Minister" went to Tallinn from Russia, where they took 10th place with the song "Northern Girl".

t.A.T.u, 2003

The t.A.T.u group successfully represented the country at Eurovision, only a few points separated Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova from the first place. The girls sang the song "Do not believe, do not be afraid." As a result, the group took 3rd place.

Julia Savicheva, 2004

Yulia Savicheva performed the song "Believe me" in Istanbul. The young singer took 11th place.

Natalia Podolskaya, 2005

In 2005 the competition was held in Kyiv. Participant from Russia Natalia Podolskaya performed the song "Nobody hurt no one" and took 15th place.

Dima Bilan, 2006

In 2006, Dima Bilan lost first place to the Finnish band Lordi at Eurovision in Athens. He performed the song "Never Let You Go" and took second place.

"Silver", 2007

In Helsinki, the trio performed the song "Song #1". The girls took third place.

Dima Bilan, 2008

Two years after the first performance, Dima Bilan again went to the competition. In Belgrade, he took first place with the song "Believe". It was Russia's first victory at Eurovision.

Anastasia Prikhodko, 2009

In 2009 the competition was held in Moscow. Our country was represented by Anastasia Prikhodko with the song "Mamo". The girl took 11th place and got a lot negative reviews from the audience.

Musical group of Peter Nalich, 2010

In Oslo, the team of Peter Nalich performed from Russia with the song "Lost and Forgotten". In the final of the competition, the group took 11th place.

Alexey Vorobyov, 2011

Alexei Vorobyov went to Dusseldorf with the song "Get You". Only Philip Kirkorov performed worse than Vorobyov at the competition. Alexey took 16th place.

"Buranovskiye Babushki", 2012

"Buranovskiye Babushki" captivated the audience of the competition with their performance with the song "Party for Everybody". The team took second place with 259 points.

Dina Garipova, 2013

Sisters Tolmacheva, 2014

Philip Kirkorov's wards, the Tolmachev sisters, represented Russia in Copenhagen. With the song "Shine", the girls finished in 7th place, but were booed by the audience due to the political situation.

Polina Gagarina, 2015

Polina Gagarina represented Russia in the final of the competition in Vienna. The touching song "A Million Voices" won the hearts of the audience, the girl took 2nd place.

Sergey Lazarev, 2016

This time Eurovision was again held in Stockholm, our country was represented by Sergey Lazarev with the song "You Are The Only One". The singer took 3rd place.

Julia Samoilova, 2018

Julia was supposed to represent Russia in 2017 with the song "Flame Is Burning", but Ukraine banned the singer from entering the country. The organizers offered to organize a broadcast from Russia or change the participant. After the EBU announced that Russia could not participate in the competition.

This year, Yulia represented Russia again, but with a different song - “I won`t break”. For the first time, Russia did not qualify for the Eurovision final.

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