Top Model po-russki (season 1)
Top Model po-russki, cycle 1 was the first installment of the Russian adaptation of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model. The show aired on Muz-TV from April to May 2011. In contrast to the format of the original version of Top Model, two episodes were aired per week.
| Top Model po-russki | |
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| Season 1 | |
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| Judges |
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| No. of contestants | 16 |
| Winner | Maria Lesovaya |
| Country of origin | Russia |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Muz-TV |
| Original release | April 3 – May 22, 2011 |
| Season chronology | |
The competition was hosted by Ksenia Sobchak, who also served as the head judge. The judging panel was composed of model Inna Zobova, designer Elena Suprun and photographer Mikhail Korolev. Other cast members included creative director Maxim Rapoport. Cast members from the original version such as Janice Dickinson, Jay Manuel and Tyra Banks made guest appearances on the show.
The winner of the competition was 21-year-old Maria Lesovaya from Yekaterinburg.
Cast
Contestants
(Ages stated are at start of contest)
| Contestant[1] | Age | Height | Hometown | Finish | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katya Nikulina | 26 | 172 cm (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | Saint Petersburg | Episode 2 | 17 |
| Elena Domashnyaya †[lower-alpha 1] | 20 | 172 cm (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | Saint Petersburg | Episode 3 | 16 |
| Alyona Prokopova | 19 | 174 cm (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | Kursk | Episode 4 | 15 (quit) |
| Karmela Amadio | 19 | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | Nalchik | Episode 5 | 14 |
| Ksenia Dmitriyeva | 24 | 173.5 cm (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | Moscow | 13 | |
| Valeria Chertok | 24 | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | Norilsk | Episode 6 | 12 |
| Ksenia Viktorova | 19 | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | Kazan | Episode 7 | 11 |
| Arina Perchik | 20 | 177 cm (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | Tolyatti | Episode 8 | 10 |
| Anastasia Zharinova | 18 | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | Oktyabrsky | Episode 9 | 9 |
| Liza Ramuravelu | 23 | 179 cm (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) | Moscow | 8 | |
| Ksenia Timofeyeva[lower-alpha 2] | 18 | 174.5 cm (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | Saint Petersburg | Episode 11 | 7 |
| Evgenia Timakova | 22 | 174 cm (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | Samara | Episode 12 | 6 |
| Olga Timofeyeva[lower-alpha 2] | 18 | 174 cm (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | Saint Petersburg | Episode 13 | 5 |
| Masha Minogarova | 21 | 182 cm (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | Krasnodar | Episode 14 | 4 |
| Evgenia Frank | 22 | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | Shchuchinsk | Episode 16 | 3 |
| Irina Adadurova | 23 | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | Bryansk | 2 | |
| Maria Lesovaya | 21 | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | Yekaterinburg | 1 |
- Domashnyaya was one of 217 passengers killed in the crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 in October 2015
- Ksenia Timofeyeva and Olga Timofeyeva are identical twins; however, they competed individually.
Judges
- Ksenia Sobchak (host)
- Mikhail Korolev
- Elena Suprun
- Inna Zobova
Episodes
Episode 1
Original airdate: April 3, 2011
Special guests: Vladimir Kalinchev
Episode 2
Original airdate: April 3, 2011
- Special guests: Oksana Yashankina & Irina Andryushkina
Episode 3
Original airdate: April 10, 2011
- Special guests: Danil Kosenkov
Episode 4
Original airdate: April 10, 2011
- Featured photographer: Mikhail Kharlamov
- Special guests: Vladimir Kalinchev
Episode 5
Original airdate: April 17, 2011
- Featured photographer: Igor Vasiliadis
- Special guests: Lyasan Utiasheva & Evgeny Papunaishvili
Episode 6
Original airdate: April 17, 2011
- Featured photographer: Igor Vasiliadis
- Special guests: Janice Dickinson
Episode 7
Original airdate: April 24, 2011
- Featured photographer: Igor Vasiliadis
- Special guests: Alya Badanina
Episode 8
Original airdate: April 24, 2011
- Featured photographer: Mikhail Kharlamov
- Special guests: Daniel Kosenkov
Episode 9
Original airdate: May 2, 2011
- Featured photographer: Natalia Arefyeva
Episode 10
Original airdate: May 2, 2011
Episode 11
Original airdate: May 9, 2011
- Featured photographer: Mikhail Korolev
- Special guests: Vadim Medvedev
Episode 12
Original airdate: May 9, 2011
- Featured photographer: Mikhail Korolev
- Special guests: Vladimir Kalinichev
Episode 13
Original airdate: May 15, 2011
- Featured photographer: Michael Keal
- Special guests: Kristin Inderson, Angel Sanchez, Maksim Rapoport
Episode 14
Original airdate: May 15, 2011
- Featured photographer: Michael Keal
- Special guests: Jay Manuel, Angel Sanchez, Anna Rykova
Episode 15
Original airdate: May 22, 2011
Episode 16
Original airdate: May 22, 2011
- Special guests: Anna Rykova, Maksim Rapaport
Results
| Order | Episodes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 16 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Karmela | Ksenia T. | Liza | Ksenia T. | Ksenia V. | Irina | Anastasia | Ksenia T. | Maria | Evgenia T. | Evgenia F. | Evgenia F. | Maria | Irina | Maria | |||||||||
| 2 | Alyona | Anastasia | Karmela | Ksenia V. | Ksenia T. | Ksenia T. | Maria | Olga | Olga | Evgenia F. | Olga | Irina | Irina | Maria | Irina | |||||||||
| 3 | Masha | Karmela | Masha | Maria | Liza | Olga | Olga | Evgenia T. | Evgenia F. | Maria | Irina | Maria | Evgenia F. | Evgenia F. | ||||||||||
| 4 | Ksenia V. | Evgenia F. | Arina | Ksenia D. | Evgenia T. | Maria | Masha | Liza | Irina | Masha | Maria | Masha | Masha | |||||||||||
| 5 | Ksenia D. | Alyona | Evgenia F. | Masha | Arina | Evgenia T. | Liza | Anastasia | Ksenia T. | Irina | Masha | Olga | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Arina | Evgenia T. | Ksenia V. | Valeria | Evgenia F. | Anastasia | Arina | Evgenia F. | Masha | Olga | Evgenia T. | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Valeria | Ksenia D. | Ksenia T. | Arina | Masha | Evgenia F. | Evgenia T. | Irina | Evgenia T. | Ksenia T. | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | Evgenia F. | Irina | Alyona | Evgenia T. | Olga | Arina | Evgenia F. | Maria | Liza | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Elena | Arina | Evgenia T. | Anastasia | Irina | Ksenia V. | Irina | Masha | Anastasia | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Irina | Olga | Valeria | Evgenia F. | Anastasia | Masha | Ksenia T. | Arina | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Olga | Masha | Anastasia | Liza | Valeria | Liza | Ksenia V. | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Evgenia T. | Maria | Maria | Irina | Maria | Valeria | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Katya | Valeria | Irina | Karmela | Ksenia D. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Liza | Ksenia V. | Olga | Olga | Karmela | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | Anastasia | Liza | Ksenia D. | Alyona | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Ksenia T. | Elena | Elena | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | Maria | Katya | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- The contestant was eliminated
- The contestant quit the competition
- The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel
- The contestant won the competition
- Episode 1 was a casting episode, and the call-out order did not reflect the girls' performance.
- In episode 4, Alyona and Olga landed in the bottom two. Since Alyona had refused her makeover that week, she was given two options: she could stay and allow her makeover to be performed on her, or she could quit the competition. She chose the latter option.
- Episodes 10 and 15 were recap episodes.