Narodniy Artist

Народный Артист
Format	Interactive reality game show
Created by	Rossiya 1
Starring	Irina Kordyukova Adil Liyan Nagima Eskalieva
Country of origin	Russia
Broadcast
Original channel	Rossiya 1
Original airing	2003 - 2006
Finalists	(With dates of elimination)
Season 1	(2003)
Aleksey Goman	Winner
Aleksandr Panayotov	December 13
Aleksey Chumakov	December 6
Mariya Zaytseva	November 29
Oksana Kazakova	November 22
Anna Alina	November 15
Natalya Pavolotskaya	November 7
Irina Toporez	November 1
Yuliya Valeeva	October 25
Irina Chernishova	October 18
Season 2	(2004)
Ruslan Alehno	Winner
Paulina Dmitrenko	December 19
Yuriy Ignatov	December 11
Yuliya Vdovenko	December 4
Evgeniy Anishko	November 20
Vera Karetnikova	November 13
Dilyara Vagapova	November 6
Vladislav Shlikov	October 30
Tatyana Kazyuchits	October 23
Darya Urizchenko	October 16
Season 3	(2006)
Amarkhuu Borkhuu	Winner
Marina Devyatova	June 3
Angelina Sergeeva	May 27
Pavla Kuchenko	May 20
Pavel Mochalov	May 13
Mariya Makovskaya	May 6
Evgeniya Ryabetsya	April 29
Ilya Zhilino	April 22
Valeriya Paskar	April 15
Ilya Mezentsev	April 8

Narodniy Artist (Народный Артист, "People's Artist") is a television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Russia. The show is produced by RTR in association with FBI Music & FremantleMedia. Season 1 & 2 was hosted by Fekla Tolstaya & Ivan Urgant.

Narodniy Artist remains today the only Idol show to feature miming in their "best of" show (Финальный Концерт final'niy kontsert) where none of the contestants sang live.

Season one

Aleksey Goman won season one, with Aleksandr Panayotov coming in second.

Season two

Kiev, Ukraine and Minsk, Belarus were included in the auditions this season which resulted in almost all finalists from that season coming from one of the two countries and no auditions outside of Russia being held in the next season.

Season three

This season had auditions in:

• Moscow
• Voronezh
• Saratov
• Kazan
• Kaliningrad
• St Petersburg
• Irkutsk
• Chelyabinsk

The 125 best candidates (35 males and 90 females) advanced to Moscow in the theatre round where they were reduced to 10 finalists to perform live on television. Season three was hosted by Olga Shelest & Oskar Kuchera. On June 3, 2006, Amarkhuu Borkhuu won with 61.7% of the vote over Marina Devyatova.

The jury this season was:

• Evgeniy Fridlyand
• Maksim Dunayevskiy
• Gennadiy Khazanov
• Alena Sviridova

Semi Final qualifyings

Season 1 Top 30
Format: 3 out of 10 making the final each week

Date	First	Second	Third
September 20	Yuliya Valeeva	Mariya Zaytseva	Irina Chernishova
September 27	Aleksey Goman	Aleksey Chumakov	Oksana Kazakova
October 4	Anna Alina	Aleksandr Panayotov	Natalya Pavolotskaya
October 11 (Wildcard)	Irina Toporez (Judges choice)

Season 2 Top 30
Format: 3 out of 10 making the final each week

Date	First	Second	Third
September 18	Vladislav Shlikov	Dilyara Vagapova	Tatyana Kazyuchits
September 25	Evgeniy Anishko	Ruslan Alehno	Vera Karetnikova
October 2	Yuriy Ignatov	Paulina Dmitrenko	Darya Urizchenko
October 9 (Wildcard)	Yuliya Vdovenko (Viewers Choice)

Bottom three statistics

Season 1

Date	Theme	Bottom Three
October 18	Old Songs	Irina Chernishova	Natalya Pavolotskaya	Oksana Kazakova
October 25	Rhythm & Melody	Yuliya Valeeva	Oksana Kazakova (2)	Mariya Zaytseva
November 1	David Tukhmanov	Irina Toporez	Natalya Pavolotskaya (2)	Oksana Kazakova (3)
November 7	Film Songs	Natalya Pavolotskaya (3)	Aleksandr Panayotov	Anna Alina
November 15	Igor Nikolaev	Anna Alina (2)	Aleksey Chumakov	Mariya Zaytseva (2)
Date	Theme	Bottom Two
November 22	Contestants Choice	Oksana Kazakova (4)	Aleksey Chumakov (2)
November 29	Igor Krutoy	Mariya Zaytseva (3)	Aleksey Chumakov (3)
December 6	Alla Pugacheva / Filipp Kirkorov	Aleksey Chumakov (4)
December 13	Grand Finale	Aleksandr Panayotov (2)	Aleksey Goman

Season 2

Date	Bottom Three
October 16	Darya Urizchenko	Paulina Dmitrenko	Tatyana Kazyuchits
October 23	Tatyana Kazyuchits (2)	Vera Karetnikova	Vladislav Shlikov
October 30	Vladislav Shlikov (2)	Vera Karetnikova (2)	Evgeniy Anishko
November 6	Dilyara Vagapova	Yuliya Vdovenko	Vera Karetnikova (3)
November 13	Vera Karetnikova (4)	Ruslan Alehno	Yuriy Ignatov
Date	Bottom Two
November 20	Evgeniy Anishko (2)	Yuliya Vdoenko (2)
December 4	Yuliya Vdoenko (3)	Yuriy Ignatov (2)
December 11	Yuriy Ignatov (3)
December 19	Paulina Dmitrenko (2)	Ruslan Alehno (2)

Season 3

Date	Bottom Three
April 8	Ilya Mezentsev
April 15	Valeriya Paskar	Ilya Zhilino	Angelina Sergeeva
April 22	Ilya Zhilino (2)	Evgeniya Ryabetsya	Marina Devyatova
April 29	Evgeniya Ryabetsya (2)	Mariya Makovskaya	Pavla Kuchenko
May 6	Mariya Makovskaya (2)
May 13	Pavel Mochalov	Angelina Sergeeva (2)	Pavla Kuchenko (2)
May 20	Pavla Kuchenko (3)
May 27	Angelina Sergeeva (3)
June 3	Marina Devyatova (2)	Amarkhuu Borkhuu

External links

• The first English website