Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest
Contestants
Table key NOTES: a. In 1996 Russia failed to qualify from the audio only pre-qualification round.

Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Section Title: Contestants
Table Section Text: Table key NOTES: a. In 1996 Russia failed to qualify from the audio only pre-qualification round.

Year	Artist	Language	Title	Final	Points	Semi	Points

1994	Youddiph	Russian	"Vechni stranik" (Вечный странник)	9	70	No semi-finals

1995	Philipp Kirkorov	Russian	"Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana" (Колыбельная для вулкана)	17	17

1996	Andrei Kosinsky	Russian	"Ya eto ya" (Я это я)	Failed to qualify	26	14

1997	Alla Pugacheva	Russian	"Primadonna" (Примадонна)	15	33	No semi-finals

Did not participate between 1998 and 1999

2000	Alsou	English	"Solo"	2	155	No semi-finals

2001	Mumiy Troll	English	"Lady Alpine Blue"	12	37

2002	Prime Minister	English	"Northern Girl"	10	55

2003	t.A.T.u.	Russian	"Ne ver', ne boisia" (Не верь, не бойся)	3	164

2004	Julia Savicheva	English	"Believe Me"	11	67	Top 11 Previous Year

2005	Natalia Podolskaya	English	"Nobody Hurt No One"	15	57	Top 12 Previous Year

2006	Dima Bilan	English	"Never Let You Go"	2	248	3	217

2007	Serebro	English	"Song #1"	3	207	Top 10 Previous Year

2008	Dima Bilan	English	"Believe"	1	272	3	135

2009	Anastasia Prikhodko	Russian, Ukrainian	"Mamo" (Мамо)	11	91	Host country

2010	Peter Nalitch and Friends	English	"Lost and Forgotten"	11	90	7	74

2011	Alexej Vorobjov	English, Russian	"Get You"	16	77	9	64

2012	Buranovskiye Babushki	Udmurt, English	"Party for Everybody"	2	259	1	152

2013	Dina Garipova	English	"What If"	5	174	2	156

2014	Tolmachevy Sisters	English	"Shine"	7	89	6	63

2015	Polina Gagarina	English	"A Million Voices"	2	303	1	182

2016	Sergey Lazarev	English	"You Are the Only One"	3	491	1	342

2017	Julia Samoylova	English	"Flame Is Burning"	Withdrawn

2018	Julia Samoylova	English	"I Won't Break"	Failed to qualify	15	65

2019	Sergey Lazarev	English	"Scream"

Sentence(s)

Russia won their first Eurovision Song Contest in 2008, when Dima Bilan, participating for the second time in the contest, won with the song "Believe".

final_sentence: Russia won their first Eurovision Song Contest in 2008, when Dima Bilan, participating for the second time in the contest, won with the song "Believe".