Our Perfect Song Contest 22

**Our Perfect Song Contest 22** is the twenty-second edition of Our Perfect Song Contest. The contest is taking place in **Saint Petersburg** after **Russia's** victory with Glosoli in the 21st edition. A total of 38 countries competed in Our Perfect Song Contest 22.

To see previous edition, click here. To see the next edition, click here.

## **Location**

### ***Host Country***

**Russia**, or the **Russian Federation**, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world; covering over 17,125,191 square kilometres (6,612,073 sq mi), consisting of more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, extending to eleven time zones, and has borders with sixteen sovereign nations. Russia has a population of 146.7 million; and is the ninth-most populous country, as well as the most populous country in Europe. Moscow, the capital, is the largest city in Europe, while Saint Petersburg is the second-largest city and the country's cultural centre. Russians are the largest Slavic and European nation; speaking Russian, the most spoken Slavic language, and the most spoken native language in Europe.

### ***Host City***

**Saint Petersburg**, formerly known as **Petrograd** (1914–1924) and later **Leningrad** (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia. The city is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. It is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, as well as the world's northernmost city with over 1 million residents. As an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it is governed as a federal city. Saint Petersburg is known as the "Cultural Capital of Russia", and received over 15 million tourists in 2018, and is considered an important economic, scientific, cultural, and tourism centre of Russia and Europe. In modern times, the city has the nickname of the "Northern Capital" and serves as a home to some federal government bodies such as the Constitutional Court of Russia and the Heraldic Council of the President of the Russian Federation.

### ***Venue***

#### ***Venue information***

**Krestovsky Stadium**, known as **Gazprom Arena** for sponsorship reasons, is a retractable roof stadium with a retractable pitch in the western portion of Krestovsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which serves as home for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. The stadium was opened in 2017 for the FIFA Confederations Cup. It was called **Saint Petersburg Stadium** during the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup. The stadium was built as one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The competition between architectural projects was won by Kisho Kurokawa's "The Spaceship". The design of the stadium is a modified and enlarged version of Toyota Stadium in Toyota City, Japan, which was also designed by Kurokawa. The stadium was built on the location where the former Kirov Stadium used to stand before it was demolished. The capacity of 56,196 seats was increased to 68,000 seats for the World Cup. It also has 104 luxuriously designed skyboxes.

#### ***Hosting Bids***

The table below shows the hosting bids of OPSC 22 venues.

 Moscow
 Saint Petersburg
 Samara
 Saransk

## **Format**

### ***Hosts***

#### **Manizha**

**Manizha Dalerovna Sangin** (née **Khamrayeva**; Russian: Манижа Далеровна Сангин (Хамраева); Tajik: Манижа Далеровна Ҳамроева; born 8 July 1991), known professionally as simply **Manizha**, is a Russian-Tajik singer-songwriter, independent musician, author and performer of songs, music video director, public figure in the field of combating domestic violence, ambassador of the "Gift of Life" charity foundation (since December 2019), the first Russian Goodwill Ambassador of the UN Refugee Agency. Manizha began her career in 2003, performing as a child singer. She took part in a number of children's singing competitions, winning the Grand Prix of the Rainbow Stars competition in Jūrmala, becoming a laureate of the Ray of Hope festival organized by Mir, and becoming a laureate of the Kaunas Talent competition in Kaunas. She recorded a number of songs in both Russian and Tajik, before joining the music project Ru.Kola in 2007. In March 2021, Manizha was confirmed to be taking part in the Russian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Russian Woman".

#### **Elena Temnikova**

**Elena Vladimirovna Temnikova** (Russian: Елена Владимировна Темникова; born 18 April 1985) is a Russian singer, television personality and fashion designer. She came to prominence as a contestant in the talent show *Star Factory* and as one of the three members of the Russian girl group Serebro, which represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. Temnikova started to study music when she was five years old; she was playing violin and singing in the choir. She came to media prominence as a contestant on the Channel One talent show *Star Factory* in 2003. She was spotted by Maxim Fadeev, the main producer of *Star Factory*, and signed a recording contract with Fadeev's recording company Monolit Records.

### ***Voting***

The voting format for OPSC is each country awarding of 12, 10, 8-1 points from their professional jury. The participants have to give two different sets of votes - one will be jury, the other one will be televote.

### ***Big 6***

In the contest, the top six from the previous edition make up a **Big 6**, in different way **pre-qualified** or **automatically qualified** countries. The six countries won't compete in the Semi-Finals, but they will have to vote in them. The big 6 members of OPSC 21 are:  Russia,  South Korea,  France,  Taiwan,  Ukraine and  Norway.

### ***Semi-Finals***

In the Semi-Finals, a total of 32 countries will compete. 32 competeting nations from the current edition will be split into two semi-finals. There will be 16 competeting countries in each semi-final. The top 10 songs will make it to the Grand Final and continue fighting for the win.

### ***Grand Final***

The Grand Final will consist of 26 countries that participated in the edition. The countries competing in the Grand Final will be the pre-qualified countries and 20 qualifiers from the Semi-Finals. All countries competing in the edition will have to vote in the show, including the non-qualifiers. The winner will be chosen by the professional jury votes and televote.

## **Results**

### ***Semi-final 1***

Sixteen countries participated in the first semi-final. Ukraine, France and Norway also voted in this semi-final. The highlighted countries qualified for the final.

### ***Semi-final 2***

Sixteen countries participated in the second semi-final. Taiwan, Russia and South Korea also voted in this semi-final. The highlighted countries qualified for the final.