# The Voice Senior (Russian TV series)

The Voice Senior (Russian: Голос. 60+) is a Russian singing competition television series broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice Senior, it has aired one season and aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 60 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner will be determined by television viewers voting by telephone, SMS text, and The Voice App. The winners of the five seasons have been: Lidia Muzaleva, Leonid Sergienko, Dina Yudina, Mikhail Serebryakov and Raisa Dmitrenko.
The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original panel featured Leonid Agutin (season 1), Pelageya (seasons 1―2), Lev Leshchenko (seasons 1―3), and Valery Meladze (season 1). The panel for the upcoming fifth season features Elena Vaenga (season 3, 5―), Valeriy Syutkin (season 5―), Igor Kornelyuk (season 5―), and Alexander Malinin (season 5―). Other coaches from previous seasons include Valeriya (season 2), Mikhail Boyarsky (season 2), Tamara Gverdtsiteli (season 3), Garik Sukachov (season 3), Stas Namin (season 4), Laima Vaikule (season 4), Valery Leontiev (season 4), and Oleg Gazmanov (season 4).
The Voice Senior began airing on September 14, 2018, as an autumn TV season programme. In 2022, Channel One renewed the series through its fifth series that premiered on autumn 2022.

## Conception

An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice Senior, Channel One announced the show under the name Голос. 60+ (The Voice. 60+).
In each season, the winner receives ₽1,000,000.

## Selection process and format
### Blind auditions

Each season begins with the "Blind auditions," where coaches form their team of artists (4 artists in season 1-2, 5 artists since season 3) whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during artists' performances; those interested in an artist press their button, which turns their chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "Я выбираю тебя" ("I Want You"). At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the only coach who turned around or selects his or her coach if more than one coach expresses interest.

### Knockouts

The Knockouts are similar to the Sing-offs in The Voice Kids. In the "Knockout Rounds," four (or five) artists within a team sing individual performances in succession. At the conclusion of the performances, coach would decide which two of four (or five) artists get to advance to the Final.

### Final

In the final live performance phase of the competition, artists perform in live show, where public voting narrows to a final group of four artists and eventually declares a winner.

### Addition

In each season along with determining the winner, television viewers vote for the Best coach (but in season 2 the public didn't determinate the Best coach) using The Voice App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.

## Coaches and presenter
### Coaches timeline

| Coach | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons |
| Coach | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Leonid Agutin | | | | | |
| Pelageya | | | | | |
| Lev Leshchenko | | | | | |
| Valery Meladze | | | | | |
| Valeriya | | | | | |
| Mikhail Boyarsky | | | | | |
| Tamara Gverdtsiteli | | | | | |
| Elena Vaenga | | | | | |
| Garik Sukachov | | | | | |
| Stas Namin | | | | | |
| Laima Vaikule | | | | | |
| Valery Leontiev | | | | | |
| Oleg Gazmanov | | | | | |
| Valeriy Syutkin | | | | | |
| Alexander Malinin | | | | | |
| Igor Kornelyuk | | | | | |
* Coaches gallery
* Leonid Agutin (2018)
* Pelageya (2018—2019)
* Lev Leshchenko (2018—2020)
* Valery Meladze (2018)
* Valeriya (2019)
* Mikhail Boyarsky (2019)
* Tamara Gverdtsiteli (2020)
* Elena Vaenga (2020, 2022—)
* Garik Sukachov (2020)
* Stas Namin (2021)
* Laima Vaikule (2021)
* Valery Leontiev (2021)
* Oleg Gazmanov (2021)
* Valeriy Syutkin (2022—)
* Alexander Malinin (2022—)

### Presenter

| Presenter | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons | Seasons |
| Presenter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Dmitry Nagiev | | | | | |
| Larisa Guzeeva | | | | | |
Dmitry Nagiev, the presenter of The Voice and The Voice Kids became the confirmed presenter on August 13, 2018.
* Presenter
* Dmitry Nagiev (2018–2021)
* Larisa Guzeeva (2022—)

## Series overview

| Season | Premiere | Final | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | Third place | Winning coach | Best coach | Presenter | Coaches (chair's order) | Coaches (chair's order) | Coaches (chair's order) | Coaches (chair's order) |
| Season | Premiere | Final | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | Third place | Winning coach | Best coach | Presenter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 1 | September 14, 2018 | October 5, 2018 | Lidiya Muzaleva | Evgeny Strugalsky | Nikolay Arutyunov† | Sergey Manukyan | Pelageya | Pelageya | Dmitry Nagiev | Leonid Agutin | Pelageya | Lev Leshchenko | Valery Meladze |
| 2 | September 13, 2019 | October 4, 2019 | Leonid Sergienko | Yury Shivrin | Vladimir Gritsyk | Elena Gurilyova | Pelageya | Not Given | Dmitry Nagiev | Lev Leshchenko | Pelageya | Valeriya | Mikhail Boyarsky |
| 3 | September 4, 2020 | October 2, 2020 | Dina Yudina | Petr Tarenkov | Irina Anikina | Tatyana Shupenya | Tamara Gverdtsiteli | Lev Leshchenko | Dmitry Nagiev | Lev Leshchenko | Tamara Gverdtsiteli | Elena Vaenga | Garik Sukachov |
| 4 | September 3, 2021 | October 1, 2021 | Mikhail Serebryakov† | Evgeny Solomin | Andrey Mikhaylov | Petr Urbanovichus | Oleg Gazmanov | Oleg Gazmanov | Dmitry Nagiev | Stas Namin | Laima Vaikule | Valery Leontiev | Oleg Gazmanov |
| 5 | September 4, 2022 | October 2, 2022 | Raisa Dmitrenko | Viktor Zorin | Svetlana Ivanova | Alexander Rozhnikov | Elena Vaenga | Valeriy Syutkin | Larisa Guzeeva | Valeriy Syutkin | Alexander Malinin | Elena Vaenga | Igor Kornelyuk |

## Best coach

| Season | Best coach | Best coach | Best coach | Best coach | Best coach | Best coach | Best coach | Best coach | Best coach |
| Season | First place | % | Second place | % | Third place | % | Fourth place | % |
| 1 | Pelageya | 38% | Leonid Agutin | 31% | Valery Meladze | 16% | Lev Leshchenko | 15% |
| 2 | In season 2 the public didn't determine the Best coach. | In season 2 the public didn't determine the Best coach. | In season 2 the public didn't determine the Best coach. | In season 2 the public didn't determine the Best coach. | In season 2 the public didn't determine the Best coach. | In season 2 the public didn't determine the Best coach. | In season 2 the public didn't determine the Best coach. | In season 2 the public didn't determine the Best coach. | In season 2 the public didn't determine the Best coach. |
| 3 | Lev Leshchenko | 31% | Elena Vaenga | 25% | Garik Sukachov | 22% | Tamara Gverdtsiteli | 22% |
| 4 | Oleg Gazmanov | 52% | Stas Namin | 21% | Valery Leontiev | 17% | Laima Vaikule | 10% |
| 5 | Valeriy Syutkin | 31% | Elena Vaenga | 30% | Igor Kornelyuk | 26% | Alexander Malinin | 13% |

## Reception

| Season | Season | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Average |
| Season | Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Average |
| | 1 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.1 | – | 5.45 |
| | 2 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.9 | – | 4.88 |
| | 3 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.56 |

### Seasons average: Ratings

The first season premiered on September 14, 2018 with a 5.6 rating in the 18–49 demographic. For its average season rating, the show was in the Top 5 at a 5.45 ranking.
The second season premiered on September 13, 2019 with a 4.8 in the 18–49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .8 rating scores.
The third season will premiere on September 4, 2020 with a 4.9 in the 18–49 demographic. It was up from last season's premiere by .1 rating scores.
    Each Russian network television season starts in late August and ends in late May.
| Season | Timeslot (UTC+3) | # Ep. | Premiered | Premiered | Ended | Ended | TV season | Viewers (ratings) |
| Season | Timeslot (UTC+3) | # Ep. | Date | Premiere viewers (ratings) | Date | Final viewers (ratings) | TV season | Viewers (ratings) |
| 1 | Friday 9:30 pm | 4 | September 14, 2018 | 5.6 | October 5, 2018 | 5.1 | 2018–2019 | 5.45 |
| 2 | Friday 9:30 pm | 4 | September 13, 2019 | 4.8 | October 4, 2019 | 4.9 | 2019–2020 | 4.88 |
| 3 | Friday 9:30 pm | 5 | September 4, 2020 | 4.9 | October 2, 2020 | 4.2 | 2020–2021 | 4.56 |