Oblastvision 3

### Interval Act

"Suck it, Manhattan: Zaporizhia city guide" by ITSMEYEGOR (Song reveal); "Kalyna" - Alyosha, Tse Zaporizhia, Tse Ukraïna (Results show)

## Winning Entry

### Song

Naviband - "Abdymi Mianie"

**Oblastvision 3** is the third edition of the Oblastvision Song Contest, directly following the second edition. This edition will be hosted in Zaporizhia as Zaporizhia oblast won the previous edition with "Kalyna" by Alyosha. This edition was made into a special edition, in which the administrative regions of Belarus (voblasts) were invited.

## Contest rules

* Songs must be from Ukraine or Belarus.
* Ukraine's de jure borders will be used for the sake of the contest, meaning that Crimea, and the entirety of the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts will be regarded as parts of Ukraine.
* Artists must have some connection, as either having been born in the oblast or voblast, grown up there, currently residing there, or having ancestry no further back than two generations from the oblast.
* Songs from national selections are allowed, but winners are not.
* There is no date songs need to have been released after.
* Songs can be in any language.
* You may not vote for your own oblast/voblast in the jury or televote.

## Eligible regions

The 25 oblasts of Ukraine are eligible, as well as the six voblasts of Belarus. (Minsk city and Minsk voblast are competing as one region in the contest.)

Regions which have confirmed participation as of 7 March 2018 are:

* Brest voblast
* Chernivtsi oblast
* Crimea
* Kharkiv oblast
* Khmelnytskyi oblast
* Kyiv oblast
* Lviv oblast
* Minsk voblast
* Mahilioŭ voblast
* Odessa oblast
* Poltava oblast
* Vinnytsia oblast

## Regional finals

### Poltava

The Delegation of Poltava internally selected the band O. Torvald as their representatives and are holding a regional final with the songs "Крик", "#нашiлюдивсюди" and "Ліхтарі". All songs were performed in the Ukrainian language.

(English translation of title)
*("Scream")*
 2
*("#Our people are everywhere")*
 3
*("Lanterns")*

### Kyiv: Illariavision

Kyiv internally selected Illaria to represent their oblast in the third edition, and held a regional final consisting of seven songs. People vote by rating each song from 0 to 10.

### Khmelnytskyi

Khmelnytskyi held a regional final with two artists with three songs each - and these artists are Zapaska and Чумацький Шлях. All songs were performed in the Ukrainian language (with the exception of "Generosity", which was in English). People voted by giving 8, 10 and 12 points respectively to their top 3.

#### Results

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### Lviv

Lviv held a national final with three songs. People could give one vote to their favorite. All songs were performed in the Ukrainian language.

(English translation of title)
*(-)*
 2
*("My sea")*
 3
*("So young")*

### Crimea

Crimea internally selected Vremya i Steklo, their representatives from the first edition, and held a regional final between two of their songs. People could give one vote to their favorite. Both songs were performed in Russian.

(English translation of title)
*("Maybe it's because of")*
 2
*("In style")*